Browsing by Author "Contreras, Antonio"

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    • (Fake) sand and fury in Manila Bay 

      Contreras, Antonio (The Manila Times, September 8, 2020, on page A4)
      Halitosis cannot be cured by chewing white Mentos, in the same manner that the waters of Manila Bay cannot be cleaned by simply layering a small stretch of its beachfront with white sand or, to be more accurate, with crushed ...

    • Inconsistencies 

      Contreras, Antonio (The Manila Times, September 22, 2020, on page A4)
      It is in this tale of fish kills and egrets that the role of political biases in engendering inconsistencies become more pointed, because it also afflicts the critics of the President. Duterte critics, for their part, lost ...

    • Managing Boracay as ancestral land and as protected landscape 

      Contreras, Antonio (The Manila Times, June 7, 2018, on page A4-A5)
      The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) through Undersecretary David Erro, perhaps in its desire to please the President who wants to convert the entire Boracay island into a land reform area, has boldly announced that ...

    • Offensive music video made in China 

      Contreras, Antonio (The Manila Times, April 30, 2020, on page A4-A5)
      And the unkindest cut of all lies in the very title of the music video: “Nag-iisang Dagat,” or one ocean. Unity has always been the dominant theme during times of global calamities which inspired music videos such as “We ...