PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE government body tasked to recover ill-gotten wealth said yesterday it will oppose a petition claiming ownership of an 18.4-hectare property in the Ortigas business district by Ferdinand…
Teves backs QC Treasurer for BIR job
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — FINANCE Secretary Margarito Teves has recommended the appointment of Quezon City Treasurer Victor Endriga as commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, a Palace source said yesterday. Teves…
LP undecided on Manny or Nene
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Members of the Liberal Party in the upper chamber have yet to agree on who among the candidates for the Senate presidency they would support. Most senators are…
Special elections in Mindanao could decide 12th slot
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE special elections that would be held today in selected areas in the vote-rich Mindanao provinces of Lanao del Sur, Basilan, and Shariff Kabunsuan, and the town of…
RP chessers stay on top
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — A day after pocketing three golds and four silver medals in the blitz event of the 8th Asean Age-Group Chess Championship at Jomtien Hotel here, the country’s top…
Bossi rescue launched
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — KIDNAPPED Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi could be free by Tuesday afternoon, according to Armed Forces chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. Esperon said Bossi and his captors were somewhere…
Terror alert high in Mindanao
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — US Ambassador Kristie Kenney yesterday said the threat of terrorism is still high in the country despite the Philippine government’s efforts to combat terrorism especially in Mindanao. US…
Poverty is just a symptom, poor science is the cause
Flor LacanilaoRetired professor of marine science, UP Diliman Our common approach to solve problems is to address the symptoms rather than the causes. Examples are problems with poverty and overpopulation, as in a…
School kindles OFW kids’ knack for life
by RUBY ANNE R. PASCUAwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA – IN THIS school, students are allowed to stare across the window to daydream during classes. That’s how some students like Cathyrine Tamayo and Ginesa Patalinhog…
Migrant Pinoys give new swing to Philippine golf
by CANDICE Y. CEREZOwww.ofwjournalism.net PASIG CITY–A DECADE after a regional property bubble burst, the country’s golf industry swings to fresh hits every summer, courtesy of moneyed Filipinos from the United States. In…
Film shows ‘trafficking’ of Pinoy workers
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANOwww.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY–A FINGER-LENGTH shard of metal on a white tissue paper nearly made Ailyn Mateo’s mother faint. Taken from Mateo’s right shoulder, the shrapnel from a bomb that…
Pinay migrants doubly-harmed with lack of health access
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANOwww.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY—THE LACK of access to health facilities in host countries aggravates the maltreatment already suffered by some Filipina migrant workers, making them more vulnerable and unattended to….
Research as principal criterion of faculty recruitment
Flor LacanilaoRetired professor of marine science, UP Diliman (An earlier version of this piece was previously sent to a former UP colleague.) The relationship between research productivity and teaching effectiveness has long…
GMA backs creation of fund on oil pollution
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will support the bill establishing an Oil Pollution Management Fund, a proposal that came up following the Guimaras oil spill in August last year….
Arroyo sees closer EU-Asean ties
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo repeated Southeast Asia’s commitment to closer trade and investment cooperation with the European Union as she met the bloc’s incoming president in Lisbon yesterday….