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GMA Network’s new crisis coverage guidelines and the need for self-criticism by Rising Sun on Sep 14, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (September 13, 4:40 p.m.) where I wrote a column (Philippine Fantasy) from October 2009 to September 2010. This is my last column article for AC. GMA Network, one of the two leading broadcast sta...
Wadhu and other funny signs in Cagayan de Oro City by Rising Sun on Sep 9, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (September 8, 2:19 p.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). As promised last week, here are more “funny signs” from Cagayan de Oro City, popularly known as the City of Golde...
Award-winning radio program makes a comeback in a few hours… by Rising Sun on Sep 7, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (September 6, 12:00 p.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). The first media casualty of Presidential Proclamation 1017 four years ago goes back on air starting today (September 6) at 2...
Funny signs in Cagayan de Oro City by Rising Sun on Sep 3, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (September 1, 3:45 p.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). Taken inside the airport in Manila (where we took the flight to Cagayan de Oro City), this sign really made my wife and I smi...
(Updated) BOR accepts 11 nominees for University of the Philippines president by Rising Sun on Sep 1, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (August 31, 7:40 p.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). Eleven nominees are running for president of the Philippines’ national university. The six-year term of the current UP Pr...
Baby Alive and other funny signs by Rising Sun on Aug 26, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (August 25, 10:50 p.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). This sign in front of the Bahay ng Alumni (loose translation: House of Alumni) in the University of the Philippines (UP) in Di...
Turtle pie and other funny signs by Rising Sun on Aug 20, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (August 18, 9:45 p.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). To funny sign makers I ask (with apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning): How do I hate thee? Let me italicize the ways…...
Campus journalism and the shaping of public opinion by Rising Sun on Aug 18, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (August 16, 7:00 p.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). A student from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) emailed questions on my experience as a campus journalist. H...
`Silence No Parking’ and other funny signs by Rising Sun on Aug 12, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (August 11, 11:00 a.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). If you can identify non-sequitur argument, you would know what’s wrong with this sign a mile away (or a few feet away, d...
President Aquino receives early salary increase by Rising Sun on Aug 10, 2010N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (August 9, 3:45 p.m.) where I write a column (Philippine Fantasy). Given my work as a faculty member of the University of the Philippines (UP), I belong to the country’s more than 300,000 p...
