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Tag: Victor Avecilla

Road hazards, motorcycles and private village roads

It appears that Congress is really keen on investing President Rodrigo Duterte, through the Secretary of Transportation, with emergency powers to address the chronic...

Buy missiles, not Beijing’s firearms

The plan of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to buy firearms from Communist China is a bad idea.  Only the brokers who stand...

The thirteenth placer

The recent appointment of Alan Peter Cayetano to the top post in the Department of Foreign Affairs has left a vacancy in the Senate....

We told you so

Last week, this column posited that the Association of South East Asian Nations summit hosted by the Philippines was an utter waste of time...

Opportunism and Leni Robredo

The two weeks prior to the recent four-day weekend saw several public officials making preposterous, self-serving allegations. In the spotlight is Leni Robredo, the purported...

Getting the statistics right

Opponents of President Rodrigo Duterte have taken so much liberty at criticizing him no end that they have become reckless in their choice of...

Update ROTC program before reviving it

In legal theory, the Philippines cannot declare war on Communist China for the latter’s illegal landgrabbing activities in the West Philippine Sea.  That’s because...

That useless ongoing Asean

By this time, almost everyone in Metropolitan Manila knows that the Philippines is hosting the latest forum of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...

No need to change ‘pabasa’ text

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An imminent disinformation nightmare

A free press is an important cornerstone in a constitutional democracy that recognizes fundamental rights.  Through a free press, the government and its officials...

A different view of the Pacific War

Tomorrow, April 9, 2017, marks an important occasion in the history of World War II in the Pacific—the seventy-fifth anniversary of the fall of...

Avecilla column puts entire QC jail in bad light

This is about an article entitled “Sex scandal at QC Jail” written by Victor Avecilla, published in your broadsheet’s opinion page on April 01. The...

Orbos’ latest idiotic idea

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chief Tim Orbos never runs out of bad ideas.  First, Orbos expanded the number-coding ban on the use of Metropolitan Manila’s...

Sex scandal at QC jail

When will the anomalies and scandals in Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista’s Quezon City end?  This is the question many taxpayers in Bautista City are...
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