Credit to Author: RENE SAGUISAG| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:58:35 +0000
ABUL Khayr Dangcal Alonto, the chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) passed away, at 73, last May 9, reportedly from pneumonia. I first heard about him when I returned from abroad in…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: MA. ISABEL ONGPIN| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:55:19 +0000
KARINA Constantino David had a circle of friends, classmates, colleagues from schooldays and beyond, from the many facets of her life — UP student, UP faculty member, community worker, anti-dictatorship…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: YEN MAKABENTA| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 17:35:18 +0000
La esperanza muere ultima. (Hope dies last.)— United farm worker First word THE Senate race is not yet over. There’s still hope for those who are trailing closely in the…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: RICARDO SALUDO| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 17:30:51 +0000
AMID the looming shut-out of the Otso Diretso senatorial slate of the opposition Liberal Party (LP), its supporters vented online their dismay over the May 13 elections. From anger and…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: RAMON T. TULFO| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 17:28:29 +0000
IN the 1987 and 1988 elections, all the candidates whose hands were raised by President Cory Aquino won. That phenomenon was dubbed Cory’s “kili-kili (armpit) power,” probably in reference to…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: YEN MAKABENTA| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:12:39 +0000
(Last of 2 parts) “It is easy to tell a lie, but hard to tell only one. The first lie must be thatched with another or it will rain through….READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: RAMON T. TULFO| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:11:44 +0000
FORMER special assistant to the President Bong Go, running third in the latest surveys of potential senatorial winners, may yet finish No. 1 in the homestretch. Most local government officials…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: ANTONIO CONTRERAS| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:10:14 +0000
(This is the first part of a paper I will be reading at the annual conference of the Philippine Political Science Association at Clark, Pampanga on April 25.) WHENEVER we…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: YEN MAKABENTA| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:47:43 +0000
“The Senate has the strongest minority of any minority on earth, and the weakest majority of any on earth.” — American senator First word THE US senator in my epigraph…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: RAMON T. TULFO| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:45:20 +0000
THE ball is now in the hands of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, who has control over the Bureau of Immigration (BI). It’s now up to Guevarra to make the move…READ
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