Four reasons why Aquino must go
FRANCISCO S. TATADDespite everything I have already said on the subject, I have been asked by anxious friends to elaborate further, if I can, on why I believe President B. S. Aquino 3rd should step...
View ArticleIslamic Caliphate now here
ON Monday our page 1 banner was “Islamic Caliphate now in PH.” Some readers complained, disappointed that the story was not about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has declared its...
View ArticleEbola toll passes 4,000 as fears grow worldwide
MADRID: The death toll from Ebola has passed 4,000, the World Health Organization said Friday, while a Madrid nurse was fighting for her life and authorities worldwide tried to prevent panic over the...
View ArticleChina and Germany vow to deepen ties at Li-Merkel summit
BERLIN: China and Germany vowed to build up already massive business ties at their third summit this year in Berlin Friday, amid tougher times for Asia and Europe’s biggest economies. Chancellor Angela...
View ArticleKerry to call for revived Israeli-Palestinian talks
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry will call for a revival of the collapsed Israeli-Palestinian peace process on Sunday when he attends an international conference in Cairo on rebuilding...
View ArticleUkraine president replaces Donetsk governor with hardline general
KIEV: Ukraine’s president on Friday fired a millionaire businessman who failed to stop the advance of pro-Russian rebels while governor of war-torn Donetsk and replaced him with a hardline nationalist...
View ArticleBrazil quarantines Guinean feared to have Ebola
Brasília:Brazilian health officials Friday (Saturday in Manila) quarantined a Guinean man feared to have Ebola, but stressed it was a precautionary measure and the man no longer had a fever or other...
View ArticleDjokovic and Federer to clash in Shanghai semis
SHANGHAI: World number one Novak Djokovic and 17-times Grand Slam winner Roger Federer will battle for a place in the Shanghai Masters final after they powered through their quarter-final matches...
View ArticleEbola joke, vomiting passenger spark scares in US
NEW YORK: Jitters in the US over Ebola were underlined Friday after an air passenger’s joke sparked a full-on alert, while another plane was quarantined at Las Vegas airport because someone vomited...
View ArticleIS jihadists execute Iraqi journalist, 12 other people
SAMARRA: Islamic State militants executed an Iraqi news cameraman and 12 other people on Friday in several towns and villages north of Baghdad, officials, relatives and witnesses said. The jihadists...
View ArticleEight missing after Taiwan research boat capsizes
TAIPEI: Taiwanese rescuers were searching for eight people who went missing on Friday after a marine research ship capsized, while 37 others on the boat had been accounted for, the government said. The...
View ArticleNearly 1 in 4 adolescent girls experiences physical violence – UNICEF
GENEVA: On International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF released Friday new data revealing the magnitude of violence against adolescent girls and the alarming attitudes that perpetuate such abuse....
View Article‘Blacklist Smartmatic’
ROBERTZON F. RAMIREZ REPORTERAs the Commission on Elections (Comelec) prepares to open the bidding for 40,000 new automated counting machines for the 2016 presidential polls, a group of IT experts are...
View ArticleSpell ‘concubinage
KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO IN Third World macho Philippines, we rarely hear about concubinage as that case filed against philandering husbands or wives. Instead we hear of relationships unraveling, and...
View ArticleOur family made us as we are
FR. SHAY CULLEN WHILE the Pope, cardinals and hundreds of bishops and theologians meet in Rome to discuss the Church’s teaching on family life, all of us ought to be concerned as most of us were born...
View ArticleJust drop the P4.1 trillion from helicopters to the Pinoy poor
MARLEN V. RONQUILLO THE term “ helicopter drop” came back to life during the Lesser Depression in the US, which started in 2008 and lingered on to 2011. It simply means dropping money from helicopters...
View ArticleWhy I’m sure everything that happens to me is for my good
RENE Q. BAS, PUBLISHER/EDITOR The other day, I got a text before I reached the office from one of my young students. She’s a Taiwan Chinese. She’s the best of my students in the class “Journalism...
View ArticleThe Smartmatic-PCOS Reign must end
AS expected, the Commission on Elections rejected the petition of Government Watch, a non-governmental organization that monitors anomalies, for the Comelec to desist from employing the Smartmatic...
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Sunday Times Front Page October 12, 2014
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