Opinion
Truth telling is paramount
I borrow ideas and text for this column from a document I helped write last week: “A call for sincerity...
PNoy is unfit for Nobel Peace Prize
Last Thursday, January 29, the remains of the 44 policemen murdered at Mamasapano, Maguindanao by guerillas from the Moro Islamic...
Low inflation, surging stocks
The weak oil prices in the world market are causing the inflation rate to decelerate and emboldening investors to place...
Before the fall
He is a man who will never accept culpability or even the possibility of error, even when caught red-handed. And...
SAF’s game
A two-star general, Getulio Napenãs, argues in public and over national television with a four-star general, Gregorio Pio Catapang, over...
What has been clarified?
Both parties—the government, as respondent, and the petitioners, particularly Grego Belgica—had gone back to court asking for a reconsideration of...
Increased presence in conflict-torn Mindanao
Barely two days after that bloody 12-hour “misencounter” in Mamasapano, Maguindanao between the Special Action Force of the Philippine National...
Firm in accident is Hoclim, not Holcim
We are writing on behalf of Holcim Philippines, Inc. whose name was mistakenly mentioned in a news story titled “Firms...
One-child policy didn’t give China too many boys
By Adam Minter Last week China released new census data showing that Chinese families favor sons over daughters. In 2014,...
The next names
Two heads of constitutional commissions—the Commission on Elections’ Sixto Brillantes Jr. and Commission on Audit’s Maria Gracia Pulido Tan— retired...
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