By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star The 2008-2009 global financial and economic crisis – euphemistically billed as the Great Recession – has hardly been licked. Yet financial reportage and analyses in the past week, and the financial-business...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Partisan politics was all over the Senate “reinvestigation” of the Jan. 25, 2015 Mamasapano incident in which 67 people -- 44 men of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force (PNP-SAF), at least 17 Moro...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Ask a Filipino nowadays what he or she knows about Colombia and chances are the reply will be about how the reigning Miss Universe, the Philippines’ Pia Alonzo Wurztbach, almost lost her crown to Miss Colombia,...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Two months ago, as the Supreme Court deliberated on the two petitions urging it to declare the Phl-US Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement unconstitutional, I wrote about former US Senator Mike Gravel’s...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Although critical of President Benigno Aquino III, Senate minority leader—and former Marcos defense minister-- Juan Ponce Enrile verbalized what the Aquino administration hasn’t been explicitly saying about the...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “The United States won a significant victory on Tuesday in its effort to counter China’s rising influence in the South China Sea, as the highest court in the Philippines cleared the way for American troops to...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As announced by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the official election season began last Jan. 10 and will end on June 8 this year. It includes a campaign period starting February and ending in May; election day...
Ni GODFREY J. DUNQUE Edukasyon ang solusyon, Pero bakit isa nalang itong ambisyon Sa mga kabataang naghahangad ng propesyon O di kaya'y isa itong malaking imahinasyon. Kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan, Susi tungo sa maunlad na pamayanan Bayan na puno ng kayamanan Pero...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld A Senate “reinvestigation” of the Mamasapano incident to coincide with its first anniversary on Jan. 25 this year has been proposed by Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, who claims to have new information relevant to...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Last December 22, a major daily published (as full-page ad) an appeal titled “Cease all hostilities until the 2016 elections.” It’s addressed to the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Communist Party...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Two hours before the New Year is ushered in, this accidental columnist struggles to write the last essay for the year. It isn’t easy. Writing has never been easy for someone who doesn’t write in pursuit of a muse...
Ni Ryan Alcarde Walang nang ibang pipili sa gabi Upang pagsabuyan ng halimuyak. Kaparis mo, munti at puti, Ang bituing nagliliwanag. Aanhin mo ang umaga Ng mga hari’t reynang Nasilaw sa sinag ng araw; At ng imperyong Nagsadlak sa marami sa pinakamahahabang gabi....
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Whatever may be the reason(s), 90 percent of Filipinos welcome 2016 with hope, per the surveys by Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations. Here’s wishing one and all a happy and exciting new year! Before...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Having been introduced early to children’s books, our four preschool grandchildren – two boys and two girls – have shelves full of them. Reading has become such a habit that at bedtime each child can’t seem...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City is not called the “killer highway” for nothing. It is notorious for vehicular accidents involving all manner of wheeled conveyances: speeding buses and jeepneys whose brakes...
By JM Ayuste A few days ago, I was chatting with one Agham Youth member about our organizational principles and concerns. Our conversation steered to the need to establish and instill a culture of scientific inquiry and objectivity while grounding it on the needs...
Ni Raymund Villanueva Para kay Alfonso G. Cahilog (1930-2015) Hinayaan mo akong mamilipit at mautal sa pamamanhikan Alam kong natatawa ka rin sa kabila ng lungkot na ramdam. Sino ba itong dayong mula sa hilagang lupain? Sino ba itong pinagtawanan ng iba mo pang...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Since France’s anti-foreigner far-right party, the National Front managed to reach a second-round presidential run-off election in 2002 – when its founder Jean-Marine Le Pen was trounced by Jacques Chirac...
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