In the early 70’s when you travel by the rough and rugged highways along rural areas in the Philippines, you can seldom find TV antennas on top of the roof of houses. If there are any, you can count only around three houses with TV antennas attached on its roof. One is the Mayor’s house, [...]
Technically speaking, year 2010 is still less than two years from now. On May 2010, the Philippine National Election is scheduled. On May 2010 we are to elect a new President, Vice President, Senators, Congressmen, and local officials from the Provinces down to the Municipalities. Year 2010 is the D-YEAR for politicians of all shades, [...]
In our political culture, who would believe that there is a Congressman who will go up the roof of his house to fix a leak or do repairs?
In our mind is fixed an image that every Congressman lives like a King in a Castle, surrounded by bodyguards, servants and other subalterns. To shine his own [...]
Our government, when faced with an intense political pressure and crisis would simply cry, uphold the rule of law. As if those who are questioning its corrupt practices are not following the rule of law.
Through this “Uphold the Rule of Law” dictum, MMDA’s Bayani Fernando draws mandate for his URBANIDAD campaign — a campaign of [...]
I thought no one’s going to hit the Superlotto jackpot draw last night. No one was able to win this lotto game for the past weeks draw, thats why its pot reached the highest in the history of Philippine lotto - Php 249,005,120.04.
A lone lucky soul hit the jackpot last night. According to a news [...]
There’s no official proclamation that would say that Summer is “officially” here. Malacanang Palace will not announce on TV that summer has arrived. If you’re old enough, that is if you’ve passed forty (plus) summers in your life, you know how to read the signs and can easily feel it. One barometer for summer is [...]
Just when we thought the ZTE-NBN deal was the only thing … read this…
Far Eastern Economic Review
January/February 2008
Manila’s Bungle in The South China Sea
by Barry Wain
When Vietnamese students gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi last December to protest against China’s perceived bullying over disputed territory in the South China Sea, it signaled Hanoi’s intention [...]
