As the early twilight breeze sweeps Makati City’s eight-lane Ayala Avenue, prismatic lights bring life to the main thoroughfare, with the Christmas song ‘Joy to the world’ written in 1719 by Isaac Watts, accenting the arrival soon of one of the country’s happiest seasons—a graphic glimpse into the tradition nationwide of this largely Catholic nation of 105 million. Lino Santos
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.
