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In China

Last July in Shenyang, a student heading for flying school in the U.S. had difficulty with oral English. An unabashed Sinophile, he had difficulty saying anything other than preceding each discourse with, “In China.”  I got curious on how much of China he knew; it...
Posted On Aug 25 2015 06:06
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Death knell of typhoons

Soudelor struck swiftly in a night full of heavy rain and fierce winds. Caught off guard, management at my apartment complex took no chances with the twin threat of Goni and Atsani. They put up the window boards. Goni came through the waters between Rota and Tinian, and though it...
Posted On Aug 24 2015 06:06
, By Jaime R. Vergara

The butt end of Aloha

During JFK’s watch, there were plans to convert the U.S. Territory of the Pacific to join the State of Hawaii. Uninhabited northwest Hawaii are not unlike the NMI and it would have made quite a state to administer.  Hawaii observes its entry as the 50th State of the Union...
Posted On Aug 21 2015 06:06
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Pinoylandia

It was early on in our writing time for ST—when we were just contributing pieces but not doing so regularly—that one of the writers who disagreed with what I wrote suggested I ceased writing and return to the country where I came from. He might have had a thing against CW...
Posted On Aug 20 2015 06:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara
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