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MRT-3 mess the worst kind of corruption
RIGOBERTO TIGLAO COLUMNISTRIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO First of Three Parts If working-class Filipinos had a capacity for quick mobilization to protest the injustice done to them, without the help of the...
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Today’s Front Page October 06, 2014
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Govt gives up LRT1
JOEL M. SY EGCO SENIOR REPORTERTwo groups are questioning the relinquishing of the LRT 1 to a lone bidder, saying the deal is disadvantageous to the government. FILE PHOTO THE government has...
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Purisima house far from ‘ordinary’
CELSO M. CAJUCOM CORRESPONDENT AND JEFFERSON ANTIPORDA REPORTERMembers of media take photos of the main house in the property of PNP chief Alan Purisima in San Leaonardo, Nueva Ecija Province during a...
View Article‘Islamic caliphate now in PH’
MOH I. SAADUDDIN CORRESPONDENTMEMBERS of Ghuraba, a local jihadist group in Lanao del Sur, have declared that an Islamic caliphate or Khilafah Islamiyah has been established in the country and has...
View ArticleAutomated failures
ERNESTO F. HERRERA There is a documentary that came out in 2006 on HBO, titled “Hacking Democracy,” which tells about the three-year efforts of ordinary American citizens, led by Seattle grandmother...
View ArticlePulse Asia’s poll points to a new leader in 2016
RICARDO SALUDO Before anything else, let this writer applaud and thank Pulse Asia for its timely and telling survey on charter change. Our September 16 column, “Time to do a survey: Should Aquino run...
View ArticleThe civil resistance movement will succeed
YEN MAKABENTA “Aquino shrugged,” so said his spokesmen and communications secretary, following the issuance of the Cebu declaration and the Lipa declaration by the assemblies of religious and civic...
View ArticleThe urgent mission to defeat Ebola
AT THE opening late last month of a high-level meeting on the global response to the Ebola outbreak, Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of the World Health Organization, put into sharp focus the...
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Business Front Page October 07, 2014
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Today’s Front Page October 07, 2014
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Special panel to probe Purisima, PNP officials
Reina TolentinoOmbudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales has created a special panel to investigate Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Alan Purisima and other top police officials linked to the alleged...
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Groups say govt too lenient with toxic waste dumping
JAMES KONSTANTIN GALVEZ REPORTERMembers of environment and health groups hold a ship made of paper representing the vessel that brought in the cargo of toxic waste from Canada. PHOTO BY MIKE DE JUAN...
View ArticleFrench historical novelist wins Nobel for literature
STOCKHOLM: Patrick Modiano, a French historical novelist whose work is largely inspired by Paris under the Nazi occupation, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The Swedish Academy said it...
View ArticleMore Pinoys see anti-graft fight as winnable
JOEL M. SY EGCO SENIOR REPORTERTHERE are more Filipinos who believe the government’s drive against misuse of public funds will succeed, according to the latest survey of Pulse Asia. Malacanang...
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Lagman prods comelec to Stop PCOS bidding
ROBERTZON F. RAMIREZ REPORTERFormer Comelec commissioner Gus Lagman explains the process of automated elections (above) while information technology expert Lito Averia discusses the law on automated...
View ArticleDriver’s license supplier has no contract with LTO
JEFFERSON ANTIPORDA REPORTERTHE Land Transportation Office (LTO) has been paying its supplier of driver’s license cards millions of pesos annually for more than 24 years despite the absence of a valid...
View ArticleMilitary combs Metro for terrorist bombs
WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL AND BERNICE CAMILLE BAUZON REPORTERSTHE military has launched a search in Metro Manila for explosives that may have been planted by three suspected terrorists who were arrested in...
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A travesty of Journalism
RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAOThe Philippine Daily Inquirer’s front-page photo, October 8, of an agricultural estate in Rosario, Batangas, which disgruntled former vice mayor Ernesto Mercado alleged was owned by...
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