Vantage Points

When I started my career as a writer, I received a lot of rejection slips (which most aspiring writers these days don’t experience anymore). But it didn’t deter me to keep submitting features and articles to publications with a minute hope that one or two of them would be published.

Animosity between the Moros and the tribes of Davao date back to the pre-Oyanguren period. Exaction of tribute, extortion, and threat were among the...

When was the last time you praised someone? The truth is, you cannot remember it anymore. “Giving praise is much like giving love,” says American poet and English professor Irving Feldman. “The giver is usually the most benefited. He casts bread upon the waters and often gets back cake.”

“The struggle for freedom is the next best thing to actually being free, " said the late UP student leader Leandro Alejandro. ...

In 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant declared in an advisory to the federal government, “I will not move my army without onions!” Some years...

Unfortunately, there is no law that grants separation pay to those who voluntarily resigns from their job. Separation pay is only entitled to those employees who are separated from their employment due to authorized causes (i.e. installation of labor saving devices, redundancy, retrenchment, closure and cessation of business, and disease/illness).

Though associated with Davao’s plantation industry as former manager of Mindanao Estates Co. of Padada, Davao del Sur, Ernest H. Oesch is indelibly...

In 2014, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) published “Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative,” its first report on suicide as a public health issue....

Animosity between the Moros and the tribes of Davao date back to the pre-Oyanguren period. Exaction of tribute, extortion, and threat were among the...

  “To lead the people, walk behind them.” - Lao Tzu ******* “T’was the best of times, t’was the worst of times…’and so rolled romantically the introductory...