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FUNFARE By Ricky Lo The Philippine Star The phenomenal rise of Grace Poe in the senatorial race is as amazing as her life story that is stranger than fiction. During the campaign, Grace happened to sit beside a priest on the plane to Iloilo. After exchanging pleasantries, the priest told Grace that a lady named Sayong, who was on a vacation in Iloilo from Canada Read More …
By Kathlyn dela Cruz ABS-CBNnews.com MANILA, Philippines — Senator-elect Grace Poe, the topnotcher in the 2013 senatorial race, on Friday revealed how much she spent for her campaign. In an interview with ANC’s “Headstart,” Poe said she only spent roughly P60 to P70 million for political advertisements to boost her bid to the Senate. She said the money came from the pockets of her parents Read More …
By Jaime Laude The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – The government has expressed concern over last Wednesday’s incident in the disputed Spratly Islands wherein a Chinese warship chased the utility boat of the Kalayaan island town for almost one hour. “Our national government is concerned on the latest incident,” re-elected Kalayaan Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon said after he reported to higher authorities the alleged bullying by Read More …
By GERARD NAVAL MALAYA THREE days after the May 13 midterm polls, the Commission on Elections sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, managed to proclaim six winning senatorial candidates. Based on 72 certificates of canvass processed as of yesterday out of the total 301, the NBOC proclaimed as winners Team PNoy members Grace Poe (6,978,111 votes), Loren Legarda (6,405,625), Alan Peter Cayetano (5,989,369), and Read More …
By Rio Rose Ribaya Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom The daughter of Vice President Jejomar Binay wants everything to be “right” for her proclamation. This is the reason why Senator-elect Nancy Binay did not show up at the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s partial proclamation of six senatorial winners on Thursday night. In a press conference, Binay said she was not comfortable with Comelec’s basis in proclaiming Read More …
Making life worth living By Ellen Tordesillas Malaya It took a week for President Aquino to realize that the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by a member of the Philippine Coast Guard team in the disputed waters of South China Sea could lead to serious repercussions for the country. Last Wednesday, President Aquino sent as his personal representative Amadeo R. Perez, chairman of the Manila Read More …
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel The front page of all local newspapers Friday were again dominated by the dispute with the Philippines over the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman, with one of the main emphases being the show of force by Taiwan’s Navy warships, Coast Guard cutters and Air Force fighter jets in or over waters near where the May 9 incident occurred. The Read More …
Taiwan recalled its top diplomat in Manila and announced that it was no longer accepting applications for Filipino workers, after the Philippine Coast Guard killed a fisherman last week. By Ralph Jennings, Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor TAIPEI, TAIWAN The Philippines offered a high-level apology Wednesday in an attempt to salvage relations with Taiwan after its coast guard killed a fisherman, but Taipei rejected the Read More …
By Llanesca T. Panti The Manila Times IF there was one big surprise from Monday’s elections, it was the way Team PNoy Senate bet Grace Poe-Llamanzares leaped to the top of the Senate race. Even Llamanzares did not see it coming, since Sen. Loren Legarda had consistently topped pre-election surveys. The former chief of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board believes that her Read More …
China questions Japan’s sovereignty over Ryukyu islands, heightening tension over existing Senkakus islands dispute By Justin McCurry Tokyo Guardian China is attempting to open a new front in its territorial dispute with Japan by questioning Tokyo’s sovereignty over the island of Okinawa, home to 25,000 US troops. The two countries are already pushing rival claims to the Senkakus, a chain of uninhabited islands in the Read More …