Eto ang mga espasyo ng urban sa kasalukuyan: Maynila ang kapital ng estado; Metro Manila (kilala dati blang Greater Manila) ang sentro ng bansa. Saklaw ng Mega Manila ang Gitna at Timog Luzon. Kalimitan mga istasyon ng radyo at telebisyon ang gumagamit ng terminong ito. Ang Metro Luzon Urban Beltway ay bahagi ng programang Super [...]
February 19, 2009 – 2:51 pm
Historian Eric Hobsbawm reminds us that “The reality of empires should not be in the hands of selective nostalgia.” The reality of Spanish and American empires in the Philippines should not be in the hands of selective nostalgia, even if the hands belong to a National Artist. Nick Joaquin’s Manila, My Manila traces the colorful [...]
January 29, 2009 – 2:59 pm
Are Filipinos Asians or Pacific Islanders? Is the Philippines part of Southeast Asia, Oceania or the Pacific Islands? Officially, Filipinos are categorized as Asians and the Philippines is part of Southeast Asia. But describing Filipinos as Pacific Islanders is not wrong. For a long time, Filipinos were known as Pacific Islanders. The Philippines used to [...]
December 12, 2008 – 4:27 am
Links: A blog promoting the local products of East Timor. A Burmese monk writes to the UN. Myanmar’s astrology blogs. Refugees in east Myanmar. Sinulat ko ang artikulong ito pagkatapos kong mabasa ang tula ni Romulo Sandoval: Byahe. Kapag sasabihin ng isang taga-Mandaluyong kung saang lungsod siya nakatira, malamang ay tatanungin siya ng kanyang kausap: [...]
November 27, 2008 – 1:42 am
Links: New infrastructure projects in Ho Chi Minh City. Myanmar’s traditional medicine practices. School facilities in Singapore during the 1960s and 1970s. Old mosques in Brunei. Thailand: Rallies and Twitter updates, a post written for Global Voices. Read the French translation. The New York Times links to the post. For a long time Manila was [...]
October 23, 2008 – 12:43 am
Links: Half-naked tourists in Laos. Education funding in Indonesia. Should Cambodia be called Gamblodia? ‘Love Food, Hate Waste’ campaign in Brunei. Thailand/Cambodia: Conflict over Preah Vihear, Part I and Part II. Read the French translation. The New York Times links to the post. My post about the US elections was translated into Spanish. New pictures [...]
Thanks Hannah of Bulatlat for writing about the Among Ed bloglaunch. Malaysia: Escalating fuel protests, a roundup for Global Voices. Support Bakit Sira? – a website dedicated to empower Filipino consumers. According to an online dictionary, the word fence comes from Middle English "fens," short for "defens" which means defense. Perhaps the best example of [...]
March 20, 2008 – 11:47 am
Kung ikaw ay nakasakay ng LRT-2 at manggagaling ka ng Santolan, ang pinakadulong istasyon na pwede mong abutin ay Recto (may balak na dugtungan ang LRT-2 hanggang Divisoria sa hinaharap). Bago itinayo ang LRT-2, hindi sikat ang istasyon ng Doroteo Jose ng pinakaunang LRT sa bansa. Para sa akin, bababa lang ako ng Doroteo Jose [...]
December 6, 2007 – 6:16 pm
Failed mutiny draws mixed reactions, my article for Global Voices. After my two-day stay in North Cotabato, I’m now in Davao City. I miss the cold Manila weather. I miss my wife and anak. The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is a region of superlatives. It is the poorest region in the country with [...]
November 4, 2007 – 2:35 pm
Hours after the deadly explosion inside Glorietta 2 and when everybody was almost certain that it was a terrorist act, TV reporters described the bomb site as the Philippine’s “Ground Zero.” Some bloggers referred to the incident as 10/19. Perhaps the intention was to strike comparison with the September 11 (9/11) bombing of the World [...]
