by Dr. Eustaquio Abay II Just as we hoped for a new beginning with President Noynoy Aquino with a new mandate, a desperate Filipino ex-policeman holds a busload of Hong Kong tourists in the Philippines hostage, killing eight. The ripples of lack of safety and security in our country has alarmed the international world, further [...]
ON DISTANT SHORE by Val G. Abelgas In the renewed debate on the proposal to allow divorce in the Philippines, it is almost certain that the fact that outside of the Vatican, the Philippines remains, along with tiny island-nation Malta, the only country in the world with no divorce law. Why is this so? The [...]
GLIMPSES by Jose Ma. Montelibano Almost ten years ago, I chanced upon a US market research study which showed that Filipino-Americans were spending $50 billion annually as their collective cost of living. The $50 billion does not include what Filipino-Americans own, what they have in their bank accounts or their investments, just what they spend [...]
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR by William M. Esposo from The Philippine Star Coming from the direction of the Malacanang Guest House where your Chair Wrecker met with President Noynoy Aquino last August 11, accompanied by my wife Mey and my sister Carol, we proceeded to a dinner appointment at the New President Restaurant located [...]
by Cristina Arzadon from Philippine Daily Inquirer BATAC CITY—No one can enter the air-conditioned mausoleum housing the remains of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos without going to him first. Not even the strongman’s widow, Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, can see her husband without passing through retired soldier Catalino Bactat, the mausoleum’s gatekeeper for the [...]
iTEACH by Jose Esposo Claro from The Philippine Star Nowadays, students with their parents all over the country are busy filling up the application forms of prominent universities and colleges. Most of these questions are easy to answer but most probably, the last one left blank until the very last day for submission is about [...]
Method To Madness by Patricia Evangelista from Philippine Daily Inquirer THE CRIMINAL was a woman. They are always women. On paper, the sentence is imprisonment, up to six years. In the dank back rooms of Manila slums, and in the emergency wards of public hospitals, the sentence can be death. In 2008, at least 500,000 [...]
By Cesar D. Candari, M.D. FCAP EMERITUS Henderson, Nevada The People Power Revolution in 1986. This was a historical event that could never be forgotten by all Filipinos wherever they were in those days The following is a summary of a very interesting history of the Philippines for your information. These are extracts taken [...]
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR by William M. Esposo from The Philippine Star Tomorrow, July 21, will mark the centennial commemoration of a great personal event to the life of your Chair Wrecker and our family. We will mark the 100th birth anniversary of our late mother — Praxedes Macgregor Esposo. If in life there [...]
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR by William M. Esposo from The Philippine Star The Extreme Left has been raising valid issues for over four decades now and many of these issues form the oppressive dynamics which produce the big gaps in our society – the Information Gap, the Education Gap, the Opportunity Gap and the [...]
