Firing Line

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 04:07:28 +0000

The working press has found an ally in Senator Raffy Tulfo in batting for the decriminalization of libel and cyber libel. In a recent Senate hearing, Tulfo stressed that since members of legitimate media organizations are held to a high standard of professionalism and ethics, their freedom to report should not be curtailed or subject […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 03:27:51 +0000

By ROBERT ROQUE Forty years today and still going strong, Tempo did not reach this milestone anniversary on an easy-ride bicycle.Even before the pandemic shocked the world, the challenge of keeping up with new-age media amid dwindling ads for print evenly laid scourge after scourge on small-format newspapers since the turn of the millennium. It […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:00:13 +0000

Today’s hot topic is whether or not we will soon need China’s help in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19). Some people believe that we need not seek succor from the country where the virus originated since its health officials have problems of their own controlling it. The truth is, I have to admit, China […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:00:09 +0000

  A BRIBERY syndicate may be deeply entrenched in the Bu­reau of Immigration (BI) and op­erating right under the noses of its officials and employees. Justice Secretary Menardo Gue­varra says that if such a syndicate does exist, it may have ties with groups in China and maybe quite challenging to break. I agree with Guevarra […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:00:19 +0000

  IT was quite hard to believe the failure of government emergency responders to lend aid to a male foreigner who collapsed on Taft Av­enue near Remedios Street in Ermita, Manila, recently. The uploader of the video, which was posted on Facebook and went viral last week, spoke of contacting government hospitals to send an […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:00:28 +0000

  LESS than two years after the lifting of a total deployment ban of workers to Kuwait, here comes another prohibition. The death of Household Ser­vice Worker (HSW) Joanna De­mafelis, whose body was found in a freezer in February 2018, triggered the first prohibition. The recent rape and killing of HSW Jeanelyn Villavende by her […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:00:34 +0000

  WE should look to our neighbor Indonesia in admiration after it protected its territorial waters successfully from Chinese intrusion. It is a feat that our country still has to achieve since the government refuses to invoke our legal victory in the West Philippine Sea. Indonesia’s armed forces re­cently reported that Chinese ships encroaching on […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 09:59:13 +0000

  To many devotees, a procession of the Feast of the Black Naza­rene done in an orderly fashion is easier said than done. Every year on January 9, it is a common sight to see a sea of barefoot devotees in maroon and yellow shirts pushing one other and throwing towels to wipe the statue […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:15:31 +0000

  DO you want to see President Duterte fuming mad? All you have to do is men­tion Maynilad Water Services (MWS) and Manila Water Com­pany (MWC) Inc. He wants to hold officials of both the MWS and MWC account­able for their burdensome water concession agreement with the government. In his anger, Duterte even threatened to […]