‘Sometimes, rule of law can be stupid proposition’

11/15/2016

For President Rodrigo Duterte, ensuring the safety of Filipinos in a country “rocked with rebellion and extremism” and “flooded with drugs” can be “hell” and nightmarish. “You know countries like the Philippines, you do what is right,…

With Trump win, Cebu families worry over kin

Morexette Erram 11/10/2016

BUSINESSMAN Donald John Trump’s ascension to the US presidency worried both the Blanco and Laguardia families in Cebu who have sacrificed a lot to move to America. On learning about Trump’s victory last Wednesday afternoon, 20-year-old Jersey…

Trust in the US versus China

Mahar Mangahas 10/22/2016

The very high trust of Filipinos in the United States has always been taken for granted. In the latest Social Weather Stations survey of Sept. 23–27, 2016, 76 percent said they had much trust in the United…

Tunnel vision

Editorial 10/16/2016

Malacañang may describe former president Fidel V. Ramos’s grim assessment of President Rodrigo Duterte’s first 100 days in office as “fatherly advice,” but it doesn’t reduce the sting of the elder statesman’s words that the country “is…

Let’s talk about sex, baby

Gerard Pareja 10/09/2016

Matud pas akong higala nga mipanaw na, “Walay bright nga dili bigaon, Nyor.” Ug kon bright ka, natural lang nga madato o magamhanan ka. Sex, wealth, power — they go together. Mao nga headline karon ang kinabuhi…

Numbed

Madrileña de la Cerna 09/03/2016

Prof. Henry Francis Espiritu of UP Cebu wrote an article last week entitled “My Brother Filipinos, What Have We Become?” where he shares his reflections on the extrajudicial killings. He laments the “general apathy that average Filipinos…

Filipinos seen backing Duterte

08/28/2016

Manila — On the day he was sworn into office, President Rodrigo Duterte went to a Manila slum and exhorted residents who knew any drug addicts to “go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents…

PH, Saudi to negotiate over stranded OFWs

08/07/2016

Manila – The Philippines said on Saturday it would within days send government missions to Saudi Arabia to help thousands of jobless Filipinos left stranded across the kingdom after the plunge in oil prices. The first batch…

PH Embassy asks Filipinos in France to be vigilant

07/19/2016

The Philippine Embassy in Paris on Monday issued an advisory to Filipinos working in or traveling to France after a terrorist attack that killed 84 people. “Following the terrorist attack in Nice, France on July 14, the…

OFWs lose a champion

Rina Jimenez-David 02/09/2016

At Large Certainly coming as a shock is the news about the passing of former presidential candidate and OFW Family partylist Rep. Roy Señeres. Señeres, who had announced his withdrawal from the presidential race just a few…

14 Filipinos among 17 fatalities in Iraq hotel fire

Aileen Garcia-Yap 02/06/2016

Fourteen Filipinos died in a fire that struck a hotel in Erbil, Iraq Friday. Elmer G. Cato, Charge d’affaires of the Philippine Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq confirmed this news in his Facebook post. “We have just been…

Aquino’s farewell

07/27/2015

On his final State of the Nation Address (SONA), the public can reasonably expect President Benigno Aquino III to lay it all out there, to pull out all the stops so to speak as he presents his…

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