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Where should pork barrel scam thieves be jailed? In the bickering, did we overlook “another green revolution that is stirring the world’s paddy fields again”—from new seeds crafted in Los Baños? International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) developed…
Tempers flared between the Philippines and Vietnam one side and China on the other over fishing and oil explorations in contested waters. A Philippine maritime and police boat arrested Filipino and Chinese fishermen for illegal catch of…
Payback speaks louder than washing of hands by thieves,” an old axiom says. Exhibit One is a P40 million restitution check given by witness Ruby Tuason to Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, who crafts…
There’s a spillover for Filipinos in President Barrack Obama’s swing through Asia, now in a Manila stopover. The US “pivot to Asia” lifted our line of sight, albeit briefly, from insular concerns like pork barrel. Instead, we…
For the more adventurous, island hopping can be arranged… to the neighboring Hilatangaan Island,” off Bantayan in northern Cebu, the travel blurb offered. Hilatangaan and two neighboring islets – Ocoy and Sillon – offer far more. They’re…
Multiple “historical firsts” explain why all roads lead to Rome on April 27—where all hotels have been booked solid. Institutions like Pontifico Collegio Filipino on Via Aurelia are similarly crammed. Pope Francis will declare on that day…
The Internet carried this week a riveting article titled “Trapped Between Cultures – Neither Filipino Nor American.” The author is Dr. Eugenio Amparo who lived in the US since 1974 when he started University of Texas Medical…
Hemmed in by deadlines, we captioned that Cebu Daily News/ Inquirer column as “Perennial Irony”, then hit the transmit key…“Viewpoint” ( 24 May 2013 ) focussed on “Naty”, a 53-year old beggar, who looked a haggard 80.…
The fires that razed 50 hectares of forests on Mount Banahaw in Quezon Province late March have flickered out. Mindanao has less than 10 percent of forest cover left. Will a Bangsamoro regime reverse that skid, assuming…
Come June, “I hope we can toast together,” Manila Water Consortium president Gerardo Ablaza Jr. said. Toast what? Cheer the P1.1 billion Cebu Bulk Water Project when it will turn taps on. Then, 143 other cities will…
The Age of Anxiety” is a poem WH Auden wrote in 1947. It deals with man’s search for meaning in a turbulent world and won the 1948 Pulitzer prize for poetry. Leonardo Bernstein thereafter composed “Symphony No.…
The cross-eyed and the liar are brothers of the thief and the mother of greed,” an old Filipino proverb says This axiom festers in the now 41-year-old coconut levy scandal. Government this week bucked a bid by…
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