"The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world."
--Ralph Bunche
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- The last time I interviewed Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano was when he graced the Philippine Independence Day celebration in June 2015 at the Philippine Consulate on Fifth Avenue.
He was then a senator and was interested to run for vice president of the Philippines.
Words fail. After a week of escalating language, North Korean’s foreign minister said insults from President Donald Trump makes “our rocket’s visit” to the U.S. mainland “inevitable all the more.”
Two-year-old Harvey Caius Gonzales from San Pedro City, Laguna, turns very blue when he cries or has a bowel movement. This is called a “tet spell” when babies affected with Tetralogy of Fallot experience difficulty breathing, become limp, and sometimes occasionally lose consciousness.
Many men do something bold or adventurous as they approach the age of 40 — some buy sports cars, others take up new hobbies — and even famous rock stars succumb to the urge. John Lennon, whose father and grandfather had been seamen, long dreamed of embarking on an ocean voyage. So in June 1980, the restless 39-year-old, struggling to re-emerge after a five-year hiatus from music, chartered a 43-foot yacht to make a 750-mile, seven-day journey from Rhode Island to Bermuda. Along the way, the former Beatle would rediscover his muse, but only after an experience at sea that proved far more challenging than he had imagined.
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- The long drought is finally over for Mario Lawsin Rebano, a Philippine national master (NM), who captured the 17th Chess-in-the-Park Rapid Open at the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park September 16.
Rebano, 52, who has been playing in US tournaments since 2014, finally nailed his first major win by trouncing FIDE Master Igor Shneider in a French Defense in the sixth and final round of the Swiss System tournament.
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- The protege of Sen. Manny Pacquiao is one of the 128 players from all over the world invited to participate in the 2017 Ketua DPRD DKI 10-Ball Open Tournament on September 24-October 1 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Michael Angelo Feliciano, 32, will attempt to bring home the championship trophy in the absence of his teammates, led by former world 9-ball champion Efren "Bata" Reyes.
About 80,000 volunteers from educational institutions, local government units, civil society, private groups and the business sector in Zambales gathered along the shoreline of San Narciso on Saturday to participate in the 32nd International Coastal Cleanup 2017.
The annual activity, as organized by the Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary, was simultaneously held all over the Philippines and 100 states around the world.
