Expats – David Haldane

April 21, 2025

Israel Thriving in the Philippines

By David Haldane April 21, 2025 This was going to be a column about Middle Eastern politics. How suffering Gazans had finally risen […]

March 17, 2025

Israelis Misbehaving or Filipino Antisemitism?

By David Haldane March 17, 2025 My first reaction was astonishment. Followed almost immediately by alarm. Not just the kind that gently wakes […]

February 17, 2025

Double-Edged Sword: Siargao’s Foreign Invasion

By David Haldane Feb. 17, 2025 I’ve never paid much attention to celebrities. In a world full of monumental problems, I believe, what celebrities […]

February 11, 2024

A Late Reinvention

A true story of true love, no matter how truly unconventional The Manila Times Sunday Magazine 11 Feb 2024 BY DAVID HALDANE IT started […]

September 7, 2023

Reverse Diaspora

By David Haldane Sept. 7, 2023 The videos made my stomach churn. They depicted water literally gushing down the streets, almost overturning cars. “Oh […]

August 31, 2023

Renewal

By David Haldane Aug. 31, 2023 We’d been stalled in traffic for more than three hours when we finally called it quits. “Hey,” I gingerly […]

June 24, 2023

Hey, Joe!

By David Haldane June 15, 2023 It happened again the other day. I was riding my motorcycle along the coast towards downtown Surigao, minding my […]

May 4, 2023

Digital Nomads in the Philippines: A New Mode(m) of Living

By David Haldane May 4, 2023 The meeting was long overdue. As my publicist and I waited at the Pancake House in Cagayan de […]

April 27, 2023

Whiplash!

By David Haldane April 27, 2023 It felt like riding a rollercoaster. First there was the comforting click of rails, accompanied by an anticipation […]

April 13, 2023