Aquino back from ‘fruitful’ Japan trip
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd arrived on Sunday from his “fruitful” trip to Japan, bringing home billions worth of assistance and economic packages, including grants that will be enough to shoulder...
View ArticlePH snares SEA Games basketball gold
The Philippines completed a six-game sweep to clinch the men’s basketball gold medal in the 27th Southeast Asian Games at the Zaya Thiri Indoor Stadium in Nay Pyi Taw in Myanmar Sunday. The team routed...
View ArticleSlums taint Pasay City’s progress
Conclusion PASAY City may have shed its “sin city” label and become a tourist destination in Metro Manila, but officials are having a hard time curbing the proliferation of informal settlers and slum...
View ArticleDawn masses herald start of Christmas
Starting today, the Catholic faithful will be roused by the early pealing of church bells for the first dawn mass or Simbang Gabi, a Filipino tradition that marks the start of the Christmas...
View ArticlePNoy has other options to stop rate hike – Trillanes
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd can spare millions of power consumers from the highest-ever power rate increase if he wants to because he has several options to address the surge in power rates, according...
View ArticleSmuggling rife in Clark Freeport Zone
First of three parts SOME locators at the Clark Freeport Zone (CFZ) are being used in the smuggling of raw materials or finished products for export but usually end up in the local market. Voluminous...
View Article4,500 mourners say tearful goodbye to Mandela
QUNU, South Africa: South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela received a tearful state funeral at his childhood village of Qunu on Sunday, followed by a traditional burial attended by family...
View ArticleCartel blamed for plants shutdown
The simultaneous shutdown of power plants, which triggered the unprecedented increase in electricity rates, is an old tactic employed by a powerful cartel, a party-list lawmaker said. Bayan Muna Rep....
View ArticleJCI’s Ryan Ravanzo – a journeyman of self(less) discovery
RYAN Cariño Ravanzo, who until last week headed the Philippine Junior Chamber International (JCI), had the confidence to sketch an ambitious future for a six-and-a-half-decade-old organization that had...
View ArticleA relevant president will not allow power producers and electricity...
The term “Relevant President” is an inversion of a point first made by Antonio Montalvan 2nd in his column in The Philippine Inquirer (“An Irrelevant President” 17 November 2013). His stirring piece...
View ArticleWas the Court of Appeals misled on GMO issue?
Whoever fed our Court of Appeals (CA) with that phony anti-biotechnology “research”—which the appellate court used extensively in its recent ruling against the Filipino science community— should be...
View ArticleWant to really help ‘Yolanda’ victims? Lower remittance charges
Lots of Filipino workers abroad are sending home more money this holiday season because they have relatives in the Visayas and other areas devastated by Yolanda. They are sending more money to help...
View ArticleLifting Pyongyang’s veil of inscrutability
North Korea watchers fear a bloody purge following the execution of Jang Song Thaek, the uncle of Dear Leader Kim Jong-un, for, among other crimes, “dreaming different dreams.” Jang was widely...
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