A journalist’s life

(An article from PCIJ blog posted by Alecks P. Pabico, 19 June 2008 ) NO story is worth a journalist’s life. This ABS-CBN broadcast journalist Cecilia ‘Ces’ Drilon has painfully learned from her 10-day ordeal as a captive of the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu. Presented to the media at yesterday’s press conference following her release, [...]

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read

Never mind my messy table.  I am just so glad to have spent time reading today.

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cheers for two

May 26. Two years ago I left Cebu and came to Singapore for my new work assignment. I was torn because I loved (and I still love) my work so much in the newspaper, but somehow I was just led to pack and go. It was an adventure to the unknown for me. But well, it didn’t take me a long [...]

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Sun.Star Cebu memories

(This is an article published at Sun.Star Cebu yesterday. Thanks to MPS for including me in their anniversary special. Thanks to Angel for the photo and to Diadema for sending me this copy. )  Media specialist I got high when I saw people in jeepneys or coffee shops read my articles at Sun.Star Cebu. But I was humbled too when I [...]

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Singapore shimmers

Once again, the Lion City bursts into life with its 23-year-old Christmas Light-Up tradition, a grand display of lights that draws local and foreign visitors for the holiday season. A walk along bustling Orchard Road at night will take you to a street that glistens with high-powered Christmas lights set on trees, walls, malls and [...]

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Italians to help promote Cebu, to give aid to local deaf center

The country’s food, beaches and the people’s warm and friendly attitude will lure Italian tourists, an official of the Italiani Associati Cebu Inc. (IAC) said yesterday. “The country should make use of its potentials of tapping and attracting more Italian and other European tourists,” IAC president Walter Finzi de Vita told Sun.Star Cebu. The country’s [...]

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IT group accepts 17 new members

THE Cebu Educational Development Foundation for Information Technology (Cedf-IT) welcomed 17 new members during its annual general membership meeting at the Cebu City Marriott Hotel last week. Cedf-IT president Sabino Dapat said membership recruitment and retention is important for the organization. A non-stock, non-profit IT organization composed of stakeholders from industry, the academe and the [...]

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Jollibee awards Jonkie for Bogo, Carcar branches

A Cebuano entrepreneur was awarded managing director of the year after “successfully managing” his two food stores the “Jollibee way.” Joly Bogo Inc. (JBI) managing director Jonkie Ouano, son of Mandaue City Mayor Thadeo Ouano, was awarded last month as Regional Managing Director of the Year 2005 for his “Outstanding Leadership Qualities and Exemplary Performance [...]

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Resto chain eyes Cebu expansion

Cuban – inspired restaurant-bar Café Havana celebrated its first year anniversary in Cebu with goals of gaining a bigger market in the years to come. “Our plan for the chain right now is really not to expand our current branch in Cebu. The direction we are taking is moving towards tapping a wider segment, which [...]

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DST to spare business, residents power costs

Implementing daylight saving time (DST) will allow the country to save millions of pesos in energy consumption, an official of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) said. PCCI-Visayas governor Robert Go said the National Government’s proposed adoption of DST to cut fuel consumption is “laudable.” “We should have been doing this for a [...]

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