Commentary
First, Grace. Her victory in her first try at a Senate seat was expected.She got all the support from her coalition. She had a campaign partner in Chiz Escudero who did not leave her. She got the name still fresh in peoples’ minds.But Grace Poe,…
I was watching National Geographic’s new series on the 1980’s on Monday night (it’s ongoing nightly this week at 10 p.m.) and, in a roundabout way, I was reminded of the recent elections. But first, what struck me after watching the show was how, even…
Lost in the din of the recent automated election and the confusion associated with it was the fact that the overseas absentee voting (OAV) was mostly a failure with a low turnout of less than 26 percent in all countries were there are Filipino workers.The…
Quite frankly, the analyses being given on the next Senate leader, with special focus on incumbent Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile being out of the running owing to the majority win in the Senate race of Noynoy’s allies, are fairly defective in their premise.Their premise is…
BAGHDAD — A “war on mosques” — deadly attacks by militants on Sunni mosques and Shiite places of worship called husseiniyahs — using weapons ranging from bombs to mortar rounds is raging in Iraq.Dozens of attacks this year have stirred already-simmering sectarian tensions between Iraq’s…
Commentary
Rubber stamp Senate
There is so much hypocrisy in Malacañang and the Liberal Par…
New concerns for China’s risin…
BEIJING — With two cars, foreign holidays and a cook for the…
No go for Cha-cha
Don’t expect Charter changes from the Noynoy administration.…
Hope for harmonious end
Dead Editor:Regarding the recent dispute between Taiwan an…
Comelec-voted senators
Proclaiming winning senators through “projected” votes based…
Riding out US tornado in a wal…
MOORE — For years Anita Zhang’s neighbors joked that if a to…
Two brand new warships plus 12…
The Philippines is not only buying two brand new warships bu…
Pusyon Bisaya, Jay Pernes gian…
In the island province of Siquijor in Central Visayas, which…
Killing his own bosses
No one need to be an expert on economy to determine that bul…
Bangladeshi volunteers haunted…
SAVAR — Mamun was hailed a hero for pulling survivors from t…