Government urged: Be more friendly with major partners

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/23/2016

A leader in Cebu’s information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) sector is encouraging the government to be more friendly and more collaborative with the country’s major partners to help the industry to continue to grow. Wilfredo…

‘Atong i-ampo nga matul-id si presidente’

Lloyd Suarez 10/23/2016

Wa nako matingala niining katin-awan ni Presidente Duterte nga dili niya putlon ang maayong relasyon sa Pilipinas ug Amerika taliwa nga nakabuhi siyag mga pulong sa iyang state visit didto sa China nga makigbuwag na siya sa…

Rody to ask for coffee cop who rammed protesters

10/23/2016

Davao City — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said he would invite for coffee the police officer who rammed into Wednesday’s protest line outside the US Embassy in Manila to ask him why he did it. “I…

Digong pronouncements cause deep concern to foreign investors

Nestle L. Semilla, Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/22/2016

Foreign businessmen have expressed concern over President Rodrigo Duterte’s announcement that he would “break up” economic and military ties with the United States of America and has led them either to postpone expansion plans here or leave…

Better lukewarm than absent

Rina Jimenez-David 10/21/2016

For a while there, it looked like activists and political protesters were happy playing footsies with the police and military. Where normally activists, many of them from the Left, would be the first to raise a howl…

Caveat emptor

Jobers R. Bersales 10/19/2016

Even as President Rodrigo Duterte hobnobs with the great Chinese “empire” albeit sans his appointed representative, the former president Fidel V. Ramos, we must also look to other possible allies as we seemingly veer away from the…

KERWIN FALLS

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/17/2016

Alleged big-time drug lord Rolan “Kerwin” Espinosa Jr., son of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr., was arrested by the police in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Philippine National Police (PNP) Dir. Gen. Ronald “Bato” dela…

Corruption in government

Editorial 10/17/2016

So what else is new about the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey that showed about 63 percent of Filipino entrepreneurs convinced that corruption is rampant in the country? The survey results which covered the February to May…

Trump’s meltdown

Ricky Poca 10/17/2016

The ongoing presidential debates have taken a turn for the worse for Republican candidate Donald Trump who’s now hounded by the controversy he sowed for himself when some women came out accusing him of sexually harassing them.…

Communities leading drug rehab programs

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 10/17/2016

His hardline stance on drug addicts and his belief that they’re beyond redemption notwithstanding, it’s good to hear President Rodrigo Duterte changing his tune after a Chinese trader and philanthropist provided funding for the construction of a…

Man killed by gunmen on motorbike

Rene F. Alima 10/16/2016

Alcantara shooting victim was a drug surrenderer; cops looking at crime as drug-related killing A drug surrenderer, who admitted to being a drug user, was shot dead last Saturday by two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle in…

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…

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