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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 NESTOR MATA MALAYA ‘It’s just the fourth day after the national elections, and yet in kaffeeklatsches the talk is that Aquino is already a political lameduck.’ It’s only the fourth day after the mid-term national elections, and yet in Manila’s kaffeeklatsches the talk is that President Noynoy Aquino looks like a political lameduck. And someone was even heard asking, naughtily, “Does Noynoy have even Read More …
By Erick San Juan In the midst of the mid-term election fever and the tensions that went with it after the voting hours and during the canvassing of votes, our country was once again put in a very critical position with our neighboring countries. Most Filipinos were caught unaware of the dangers posted by the incident that happened last Thursday when the Philippine Coast Guard Read More …
Death on the High Seas: Ma issues ultimatum over fisherman’s death 72 HOURS:The government will freeze Filipino workers’ applications and recall its envoy if Manila fails to respond to Taiwan’s demand for a formal apology and arrest of the suspect in a fisherman’s death By Mo Yan-chih Taipei Times The administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday gave the Philippines 72 hours to arrest those Read More …
By Karl Malakunas Gulf Times Another Benigno Aquino is set to become one of the Philippines’ most powerful politicians next week thanks to his name, part of what analysts warn is an increasingly destructive system of dynastic rule. The 36-year-old nephew and namesake of the current president is one of the front-runners to be elected to the Senate in mid-term elections, with many other favourites Read More …
By DUCKY PAREDES MALAYA ‘Those who can understand a source code enough to be able to spot where something is not quite right would have the capability and the know-how to create a source code themselves.’ CLEARLY, the former Commission on Elections (Comelec) made the wrong decision when it chose to purchase the Precinct-Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines. Consider the problems of warehousing the machines Read More …
Source: Sun Star MANILA — The Philippines has ranked third in the 2013 Impunity Index of the New York-based non-profit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. Iraq and Somalia were the top two countries on the index of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The Philippines’s index rating was 0.580 unsolved journalist murders per million inhabitants. CPJ said that despite President Benigno Aquino III’s vow Read More …
By Mario J. Mallari The Daily Tribune The Philippine government yesterday admitted its Coast Guard fired at a Taiwanese fishing boat in an incident that authorities in Taipei said left a crewman dead and triggered widespread outrage on the island. Abigail Valte, speaking for President Aquino, justified the shooting yesterday. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou demanded that the Philippines apologize for Thursday’s shooting which the Taiwanese Read More …
By Bernie Lopez 1. Philippines most corrupt in Asia – http://www.asianoffbeat.com/default.asp?Display=844 2. One million unemployed pinoys – http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/05/03/937741/unemployed-pinoys-1-m-first-quarter-sws 3. Yet Noynoy says we are doing good in Youtube If you are talking about sophisticated digital tricks, I can find a hundred Filipino teens who are non-graduate non-IT who can do a better job. That’s not the reason this is “perhaps the best video so far Read More …