Miracle at Veterans Memorial Medical Center
Few, if any, saw it coming: the recent goodwill visits by former presidents Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada, along with religious leaders Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz and Brother Eddie Villanueva, to...
View ArticleResignation (Disambiguation)
Morir antes de dimitir is Spanish for people who cling to their posts and would die first before resigning. A resignation is the formal act of giving up or quitting one’s office or position. A...
View ArticleHouse sets own bunkhouse pricing probe
The House of Representatives will launch its own investigation into the alleged overpriced and substandard bunkhouses built by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for the survivors of...
View ArticleCorruption in typhoon areas
The rumors about corruption in government services for the typhoon victims of Leyte and Samar are unsettling despite the fact that what they purport to convey is still under investigation. The very...
View ArticleA good year for Philippine competitiveness
AMID the dark prospects of our country, especially for achieving inclusive economic growth and substantially wiping out our massive poverty (which dehumanizes about half of our population), there is an...
View ArticleDOH measles information campaign flawed: Poe
Fewer children got free measles vaccine and booster shots last year because the government failed to convince their parents to have them immunized, a senator said on Thursday. Sen. Grace Poe, a member...
View ArticleFRENZIED DEVOTEES STEAL BLACK NAZARENE’S CROWN
Throngs of devotees of the Black Nazarene on Thursday swarmed the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park and some of them removed the crown from the image’s head. The unruly crowd clambered over barricades...
View ArticleHigh electricity costs root of our backwardness
Forget all the talk that corruption, flawed institutions, even a damaged culture explain our continued backwardness, our falling every year behind our neighbors in Southeast Asia despite the tens of...
View ArticleSurrender of a Maoist rebel leader in India will not weaken the Naxalites
INDIAN media is touting the arrest of Gudsa Usendi, a spokes–man for a regional committee of India’s Maoist militant rebels known as Naxalites, as a sig–nificant victory for the country’s...
View ArticleTaliban suicide blast kills Pakistan police chief
KARACHI: A Taliban suicide attacker in Karachi on Thursday killed one of Pakistan’s best-known police commanders, famed for his fearless work tackling militants in the city. Chaudhry Aslam, the head of...
View ArticleOpposition warns of ‘final’ push against Cambodia PM
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s opposition warned strongman premier Hun Sen of a “final campaign” against him unless fresh elections are held, as it rallied on Friday in the country’s northwest despite recent...
View ArticleIndian diplomat in visa fraud leaves US
NEW DELHI: The United States (US) and India ended a month-long feud over a diplomat who was arrested, strip-searched and charged in New York for visa fraud with a deal on Friday allowing the envoy to...
View ArticleNEW JERSEY GOV. CHRISTIE ‘HUMILIATED’ BY BRIDGE SCANDAL
NEW YORK: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s United States (US) presidential ambitions ran into a jam on Thursday (Friday in Manila) when he was forced to admit his staff lied to him about their role in...
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