PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE investigation on the extra-judicial killings in Davao City by the Commission on Human Rights has become a word war between two feuding prominent politicians, Speaker Prospero Nograles…
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Surveys vs. upcoming SONA
In today’s headline of the Inquirer, Social Weather Station came out once again with the latest (dis)satisfaction rating of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. This means that at 54% to 55%, her grading…
(U.S. ASIAN WIRE) Jim Barredo, Filipino American Drummer of Explosive Band
Jim Barredo, Filipino American Drummer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (U.S. ASIAN WIRE) Tim Be Told, Charlottesville’s confection of catchy hooks and positive vibes, is a band on the rise. They combine a variety of…
GMA sets island-hopping to belie health speculations
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — IN a bid to end speculations about her health, President Macapagal-Arroyo will go island hopping this coming week after curtailing her self-quarantine at the Asian hospital in Muntinlupa…
Poll automation back on road after players reconcile
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE full automation of the 2010 national elections will push through, the Commission on Elections said yesterday after Smartmatic and its Filipino partner Total Information Management Corp. patched…
RP ceases as haven for fugitive aliens
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE Philippines has ceased to be a safe haven for foreigners eluding the law in their countries. An American wanted in the United States for possessing and selling…
GMA boob job denied
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — PRESIDENT Macapagal-Arroyo checked in at the Asian Hospital for her self-imposed quarantine and while in the hospital had a biopsy to check a mass which was found to…
THE GRAND MIDORI MAKATI
THE GRAND MIDORI MAKATI GREETINGS; Federal Land Inc., the property developer of the Metrobank Group., has formed a joint venture company with Japanese real estate firm Orix Corp. to develop a P4-billion…
Anti-smoking ordinance of San Juan City
San Juan City bans smoking in public San Juan bans smoking in public By FRANCIS T. WAKEFIELD Manila Bulletin July 5, 2009, 8:40pm The ordinance, known as “The Comprehensive Anti-Smoking Ordinance of…
Facebook Game ‘Brain Buddies’ Becomes the New Darling of Facebook Users
– 1.5 Million minutes of play time during the first week – Launched in 8 languages – Most international Facebook Game with user from 150 countries – Dispute among Facebook users: Whose…
So-called ‘terrorist card’?
It seems unlikely the growing suspicion that GMA plays the ‘terrorist card’ at a time when she appears to have a problem of her own resulting from another doubt that lingered in…
Limits of morality: case of Antipolo City
Legal scholars, perhaps, can tread back memory lane in search of new interesting research findings or at least to check whether ‘units of historicism’ in so far as Antipolo City is concerned…
Limits of legality in RP
What is legal is not moral. Republic Act No. 9006 challenges reflection on the morality side of the ledger. We can advance the tentative view that in fact, RA 9006, “An Act…
Puno: What ‘no-el’ are you talking about?
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — In a radio interview before flying to the United States for his regular medical checkup, Puno, among the closest advisers of Pres. Macapagal-Arroyo and who is also privy…
Army chief assures people of their loyalty
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — TWO members of the Philippine Military Class 77, who were named as among those airing their grievances with their underclass in Class 78, yesterday came out to deny…