UN Syria team departs hotel

09/11/2013

A United Nations (UN) team tasked with investigating the Syrian regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons near the capital Damascus last week left their hotel yesterday, as world leaders suggested that an international response to the attack…

Couple gets 5 years for trafficking 4 girls

09/11/2013

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A Guyana court has imposed the maximum sentence on a couple for luring four girls to a remote jungle area and forcing them to work as prostitutes in a mining camp. Wesley Hart and…

Desperate measure

09/11/2013

It is sad that just as the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation front is on the brink of a peace settlement with the pending establishment of the Bangsamoro region, the uneasy peace in Mindanao is…

Happiness: Sun vs. Snow

Gerard Pareja 09/11/2013

Nyor Gamay (NG): Hello DJ. DJ Mbenga (DJ): O, Nyor Gmay. Unsay akong ika-serve nimo? NG: Mangutana ta ko nimo kun kinsay tighimo aning lista sa happiest nations in the world. Kay murag nakabasa man ko sa…

Austere laurels-or pork?

Juan Mercado 09/11/2013

To forget one’s ancestors is to be a tree without a root.” This Asian axiom is apt for the 135th birthday of Sergio Osmeña on Sept. 9. As fourth Philippine president, he led a war-ruined country into…

Parenting parents

09/11/2013

The arrests over the weekend and last week of women involved in prostituting children to cyber-pornography in Lapu-Lapu City and Cordova town underscores anew the need for the State, the Church and everyone involved to help train…

Naa pa bay Osmeña nga ma-presidente?

Lloyd Suarez 09/11/2013

Posible nga makabalik ang mga Osmeña sa Malacañang kay possible nga dunay mapresidente kanila. Apan di pa karon niining ilang generation. Dako kog respeto sa mga karaang Sugboanon nga moingon nga lahi ra gyud ang mga Osmeña…

Merci

Radel Paredes 09/11/2013

Today, I join a group of nine artists from Cebu who are leaving for Paris, France to take part in a month-long art residency and exchange called “Mugna Paris 2013”. The Cebuano artists have been invited to…

Bishops tell youth: Be discerning of mass action

09/11/2013

Even if Cebu Archibishop Jose Palma, the outgoing head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), has already expressed support for the Edsa rally against the pork barrel this week, an official of the Church…

Soldier wounded in bomb attack

09/11/2013

COTABATO CITY- Suspected Moro rebels set off a roadside improvised explosive device in Maguindanao yesterday morning that left a soldier wounded, the Army here said. Corporal Edwin Lamorese was slightly wounded when suspected members of the Bangsamoro…

Killed in ‘hantak’

Apple Ta-as 09/11/2013

A 31-YEAR-OLD was shot dead while he was playing an illegal coin toss game locally named “hantak” in barangay Mambaling, Cebu City past midnight yesterday. Mario Nudalo Camanzo died suffered a gunshot wound in the head .…

Foundation built in old home of Serging sought

Doris C. Bongcac 09/11/2013

How do you cement the legacy of Cebu’s Grand Old Man of politics, the late Don Sergio Osmeña Sr.? Set up a foundation in his name and buy back the house where he grew up in along…

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