Commentary
It’s all over but the counting. There’ll be no more shoving and shouting, politicians have passed that stage, complete with the different shades of black propaganda that flew from all sides. The violence and incidents of vote buying that marred Monday’s polls are serious matters…
It is regarded as an unlucky number, to be sure, but for us, Filipinos, the 13th of May in 2013 was hoped to be a lucky one as over fifteen million voters went to their precincts to mark their choices on the ballot.The number’s bad…
The pathetic efforts of the demolition team of Noynoy extended to breaking into the Senate Web site, if not using some Senate insiders to circulate forged press statements from candidates of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).The targets of the bogus e-mails were Gringo Honasan, Migz…
For all the 12-0 campaign spiel of Noynoy and his Liberal Party (LP), and if they do get the majority of the senatorial slate — and even if there will be a change in the Senate leadership, the fact is that in less than two…
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looks set to be a pragmatic ally of Washington, unlikely to end the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban as he seeks to focus on fixing the economy.Prime minister twice in the 1990s when Pakistan suffered…
Commentary
Blustering his way through
Sixto Brillantes and his commissioners in the poll body just…
Presidential limbo in Algeria …
ALGIERS — Official silence about the health of Algeria’s ail…
Keep their dirty hands off…
For 27 years the country’s three million or so coconut farme…
Ukrainian’s wartime love with …
KIEV — The sculpture shows two elderly people hugging each o…
Grace and Nancy
First, Grace. Her victory in her first try at a Senate seat…
No surprise
I was watching National Geographic’s new series on the 1980’…
Wrong premise
Quite frankly, the analyses being given on the next Senate l…
‘War on mosques’ rages in Iraq
BAGHDAD — A “war on mosques” — deadly attacks by militants o…
Arrogant just like his boss
As a journalist whose main responsibility is to deliver news…
Kissinger on the Mutual Defens…
With the Philippine population made nervous by Chinese claim…