Here are the first pictures EVER of celebrity Pia Guanio with her businessman groom-to-be Steeve Mago. I have kept my promise to her fans.
Pia Guanio and her fiancé Steeve Mago
Juanita's heroic death in Hong Kong
By Raïssa Robles Today, a Filipina who threw herself in front of a bus in Hong Kong to shield a boy she was bringing to school was laid to rest in the Philippines. Citing eyewitnesses, the Hong Kong police said the woman, identified as Juanita Agustin Limbago, 31, had seen the bus bearing down on them as they crossed a [...]
Pia Guanio and Steeve Mago prepare for their dream wedding with gusto
My exclusive By Raïssa Robles Last night was the first time in many, many, many months that my hubby Alan and I saw Pia happy. Who wouldn’t be? Pia and her fiancé, Steeve Mago, are preparing for their wedding together. I’m not at liberty to say where or when. That is the delicious secret lovers are entitled to keep. But [...]
Sex and the President
A personal essay By Raïssa Robles I didn’t mean to. It wasn’t even planned. But that morning, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was positively glowing in a very becoming emerald green silk that I blurted out the question whether she still had time for sex. And she blurted back – “Plenty.” That single reply swept the world as far as Africa and [...]
Strange bunch of Church champions to stop gov't from distributing condoms
By Raïssa Robles This is a strange bunch championing the Catholic Church stand against a law that would allow, among others, the government to provide family planning information and contraceptives to the poor: a fondler of a Catholic parish employee; an endorser of condoms; and a boxing icon whose wife used the pill as shield against his libido. I know [...]
Chit Estella, forever 53
By Raïssa Robles The heart-warming thing about journalist-professor Chit Estella’s wake was the constant stream of young people – her students, her husband Roland Simbulan’s students and their subordinates – going in and out of the viewing room. Another was how lovely Chit looked, lying in her coffin. Like a sleeping bride. There was no sign of trauma on her [...]
I salute journalist-professor Chit Estella for her bravery and grace under fire
Beneath that gentle voice and face was steel. That steel was severely tested but did not break when Philippine President Joseph Estrada tried to cow a newspaper, Manila Times, into submission. Chit was the Times’ managing editor. She refused to compromise her principles. She resigned rather than compromise her principles. She went into teaching journalism at her alma mater, University [...]
Why does world billionaire Lucio Tan have such a troubled airline?
By Raïssa Robles Why is world billionaire Lucio Tan having continuous labor trouble but only in one of his companies – Philippine Airlines? Why is the trouble with PAL erupting again at the start of a new presidency, just like it did when Joseph Estrada assumed office in 1998? Is there a ploy to make the new government look [...]