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if you’re craving for authentic Mexican food, I think this is the closest you are going to get here in the Manila area. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nothing compared to the hole in the wall joints California but it’s definitely not your fast food “Mexican” food place.
I am not one to say no to an invitation offering chicken wings and beer. So, last night when my boyfriend suggested we try Wing Hub in Metrowalk, he didn’t get any objections from me.
I think the joint just opened recently. It’s really clean. Being a Sunday night, most of the patrons were with [...]
By Rodger Baker
Chinese President Hu Jintao is visiting the United States, perhaps his last state visit as president before China begins its generational leadership transition in 2012. Hu’s visit is being shaped by the ongoing China-U.S. economic dialogue, by concerns surrounding stability on the Korean Peninsula and by rising attention to Chinese defense [...]
Europe is on the cusp of change. An EU heads-of-state summit Dec. 16 launched a process aimed to save the common European currency. If successful, this process would be the most significant step toward creating a singular European power since the creation of the European Union itself in 1992 — that is, if it doesn’t destroy the euro first.
This one from Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report:
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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo who has been sentenced for, “inciting subversion of state power.” It is an 11-year prison term. The Globe and Mail recently wrote that Liu maybe the last to know that he won.
Liu Xiaobo is a poet and literary [...]
As the world enters an Age of Augmented Humanity where the handled devices we carry around is our gateway into Information Networks and Social Media— it becomes easier to connect. What then is the Challenge for policymakers, civil rights group, marketers and revolutionists?
Manuel Buencamino for the Pro Pinoy Project wrote about the tragedy that befell several Hong Kong tourists while in Manila:
Woulda, coulda, shoulda is not for those who only know what they saw on TV. That was only a part of the entire thing. Viewers did not see [...]
Rolando Mendoza, a police officer reportedly discharged from the Philippines’ national police force in 2008 for alleged involvement in drug-related crimes and extortion armed with an assault rifle hijacked a tourist bus in Manila’s tourist district.
Read the op-ed at The Pro Pinoy Project.
Statement of His Excellency President Aquino on the [...]
When is a tax, not a tax? BIR in my humble opinion needs to rethink income tax and to remove it for people earning less than 50,000 a month.
