Search
Join us on Facebook
-
-
-
-
-
Categories
- Balitang Kutsero (124)
- Business & Lifestyle (291)
- Featured (286)
- Opinion (5017)
- PerryScope (429)
- Politics & Government (3206)
-
Recent Posts

By JohnThomas Didymus Digital Journal China’s Internet censors have taken exception to an eagle-eyed Chinese blogger noting an uncanny resemblance between the physique and walking strides of Winnie the Pooh and Tiggers, President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama respectively. The images which emerged following the recent summit in California between President Barack Obama and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, was posted to the popular Read More …

Source: Belfast Telegraph US officials are taking the personal security of Barack Obama so seriously that they will be positioning two aircraft carriers off the coast of Donegal. It is understood that a contingency plan is in place for the unlikely event that an attempt would be made on the President’s life. The Secret Service also have diplomatic immunity which will allow them to shoot Read More …

Source: Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korea’s top governing body on Sunday proposed high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States in an appeal sent just days after calling off talks with rival South Korea. The powerful National Defense Commission headed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued a statement through state media proposing “senior-level” talks to ease tensions and discuss Read More …

By Kirk Spitzer TIME TOKYO – A major amphibious warfare exercise off the California coast is not intended as a dress rehearsal for combat in the Japanese islands — but it could work out that way. For the first time, troops from all three Japanese armed services are practicing how to seize and defend remote islands, and conduct combat operations in close coordination with the Read More …

By Jaime Laude The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – The much-awaited arrival in August of the Philippines’ second warship BRP Ramon Alcaraz from the United States has been matched by Vietnam with its acquisition of two submarines from Russia. On the other hand, a US lawmaker has been reportedly calling on Washington to sell conventional submarines to Taiwan. “We are not girding to go to Read More …

ANALYSIS/OPINION By John Price* The Washington Times On May 30, Army Brig. Gen. Kimberly Field announced the formation of a new “rapid response force” to be established at Camp Lemonnier in the East African nation of Djibouti. It will be a force “specifically trained and ready to respond to a crisis such as Benghazi, [Libya, which] we didn’t have before,” Gen. Field, deputy director of Read More …

By Michael Punongbayan The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Convicted murderers and robbers – not only grafters – were among the winners in the last elections, a Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism report showed. In the PCIJ report, seven convicts won in the elections under the Liberal Party-led Team PNoy, while three other criminals ran under the opposition United Nationalist Alliance and won. “LP harbored Read More …

Source: The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – The leading French newspaper Le Figaro recently lauded Gawad Kalinga and its founder, Tony Meloto. This, after Meloto delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Planetworkshops Global Conference early this month. In a column by Marielle Court, Meloto was hailed for building homes and villages for the poor. Court cited Read More …