On Earth Day itself, Mother Nature showed who’s boss when, at 5:11 p.m. on Monday, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Castillejos, Zambales. So far, it has left 16 dead, 81 injured and 14 missing, while causing considerable damage to homes and property in Pampanga and other parts of Central Luzon. As of this writing, local and national government offices are still tending to the dead and the injured in Pampanga and assessing the damage to infrastructure. Metro Manila, with
Last December I was sitting on a sea wall in San Juan, La Union, with one of my daughters when she suddenly shot the question: “Who owns the sea?” My answer was automatic: No one. “But I heard on the news China says it owns the sea.” That jolted me, because my daughter
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