At least 50 casualties as per CNN tonight, most of them firemen. They still have no clue what was stored inside the warehouse(s). Hundreds of...
Ah, I see! The me me me syndrome....
Why would a devaluation of the Peso be a good thing, Miguel? You realise that all imported goods will become more expensive? Roll backs of...
And another 2% today! This will present a nice little topic for discussion during the upcoming meeting between Obama and his Chinese counterpart.....
One island, dear Jack, ONE!! Building the Channel was already an engineering feat in itself: imagine that at about 5 - 10 times the depth of the...
I'm not sure the commentators have recently looked at a map: Comparing the PH to Singapore (city state), South Korea or Vietnam is like comparing...
Further to my earlier response (a few minutes ago), I just read in my on-line Dutch newspaper that the part that was found was (part of) a ladder....
The 'part' (could be a piece of scrap metal from all sorts of constructions) was shown on CNN and when they zoomed in there were 2 distinct...
Airline tickets I purchase on-line directly via the airline website. However, in order to pre-determine the best pricing and connection I use a...
CNN News indicated that there are 4 fatalities and 46 wounded. It appears the bus from Bacolod to Escalante tried to overtake another vehicle via...
This one was north of Bacolod, near Victorias City. Got the info via FB from one of my wife's classmates who passed by the accident just after it...
Yes, but it took till now (21.30) for it to creap up the hill and that's only half-way up to Valencia..... Stopped again...
I thought our landlady used Smart for the 'receiver-on-pole' connection we are trying to survive with here (no alternative available), but as...
Well, well, well, something no-one had expected (tongue-in-cheek): There is an agreement between the EU and Greece!!! The bunch of idiots with...
I for one hope that the leaders of the various EU countries that have bled their taxpayers money into the Greek 'black hole' will listen to their...
New Greek proposals were e-mailed (!) to Dijsselblom last night. Bottomline: te Greek government wants another 53 billion Euro... Oh yes, they did...
Eid Mubarak!!
Road from Nat'l Highway up to about 200 mtrs before Bambulo is fine. After that is becomes unpaved and bumpy because they are building a new...
There's much more at stake than a 'simple' loss of support funds, however painful that might be. If Greece would bail out of the Euro and...
The urge to depart from the EU and the EURO is not limited to the UK only: A recent poll showed that 60+% of the Dutch want a Nexit (about the...
