These Are Our Most-Read Stories of 2020

What did Esquire readers like this 2020? History? Celebrities? Pop culture? Deep dives and long reads? It’s all that and more. Here’s a list of the top 30 stories we produced this year:

 

1| Looking Back on Mel Tiangco's 16-Year Legal Battle With ABS-CBN

 

2| This Is the Story of That Big Hole in EDSA-Ortigas

 

3| Dad Was PH129. And We Found Out on the Internet

 

4| Matteo Guidicelli Has A Very Illustrious Family Background

Photo by Artu Nepomuceno.

 

5| Vico Sotto Buys Disinfectant Drones to Fight COVID-19

 

6| Ferraris, Private Jets, Watches: Behold the 8 Biggest Filipino Show-Offs on Instagram

 

7| At 86, Taipan Lucio Tan Named Chairman, President, CEO, and COO of PAL Holdings After Children Quit Board

 

8| A Daughter Whose Mother Died From COVID-19 Has A Few Things To Say About Spreading False Information

 

9| Ultra-Rare Dwarf Kingfisher Fledgling Photographed for the Very First Time

Photo by Miguel De Leon.

 

10| Jose Mari Chan, Noli de Castro, Angel Locsin, Daniel Padilla, Bea Alonzo Among ABS-CBN's Top 100 Stockholders

 

11| Who Are Allowed to Work During MECQ, ECQ, and GCQ?

 

12| Taal Volcano’s Ash Explosion Was So Intense, NASA Could See It From Space

Photo by Mike Sagaran.

 

13| Korina Sanchez Responds to Trolls' ABS-CBN Shutdown Comments With Savage Comebacks

 

14| 8 Filipino Actors Who Married Into High Society

 

15| Holocaust Survivors Reveal How Filipinos Protected Them When Everyone Else Wouldn’t

 

16| "To the Rest of the World, You Have No Idea What's Coming"

 

17| The iPhone 12 Will Be Out in 2020 and Here’s Everything We Know About It

 

18| Transwoman Billionaire Wants Clint Bondad to End Drama, Reveals Clint is Living with Her

Photo by INSTAGRAM/ANNEJKN.OFFICIAL.

 

19| Sofia Andres' Boyfriend Daniel Miranda Is an Old Money Scion

 

20| War Heroine Maria Orosa’s Grave Unearthed at Malate Catholic School

 

21| Father Walks Home from Pasig to Makati With Dead Son in a Box

 

22| What Happened to CD-R King?

 

23| Food You Can Eat Past the Expiration Date. And Those You Can't

 

24| LOOK: Miss Universe Philippines Rabiya Mateo's Yearbook Photo

 

25| We Should Stop Calling Taal the World's Smallest Volcano

 

26| Jo Koy in Manila: Was He Funny?

 

27| Is Inter-City Travel Allowed During MECQ?

 

28| Philippine 'Witch Dog' Could Be 36,000 Years Old

Photo by Tom Asmus.

 

29| These Famous Filipinos Have Harvard University Credentials

 

30| This 32-Year-Old Filipino-Australian is the Youngest Aussie Billionaire