PRESIDENT Aquino, assisted by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Director General Emmanuel Joel Villanueva, distributes ballers to the participants of the 7th Puregold ‘Tindahan Ni Aling Puring Sari-Sari Store’ Convention during the tour and inspection of the booths at the World Trade Center at the corner of Gil Puyat Avenue Extension and Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, Pasay City, yesterday. (Photo by: Robert Viñas / Malacañang Photo Bureau)
AMERICAN contemporary ballet company Trey McIntyre Project performs at Central Philippine University in Iloilo City. Its 10-day Philippine tour is a joint program of the U.S. Embassy in Manila and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. (Photo by Tara Yap)
CAGAYAN’s Junar Arce (center) finds himself sandwiched by Gio Ciriacruz and Kelly Nabong of Blackwater during PBA D-League action last night at The Arena in San Juan.
MIAMI Heat guard Dwyane Wade, foreground, regains control of the ball as he is guarded by Indiana Pacers guard Paul George, rear, during Game 2 of their NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series in Miami.
VENDORS arrange bananas in a makeshift stall on Road 10 in Tondo, Manila, as they sell ‘lakatan’ at P30 per kilo yesterday morning. The Philippines’ fruit exports to China, particularly bananas, seem to have trouble getting cleared by Chinese Customs amid a tense standoff between the two countries over the disputed islands on the West Philippine Sea. Fruit shipments, especially bananas, were rotting in Chinese ports because pests were allegedly discovered in some produce, prompting stricter quarantine inspections. (Photo by Linus Escandor II)
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Tulfo incident
Manila, Philippines – Speaking to a retired GMA-7 employee, who currently works for GNN-Destiny Cable TV, (where I host “Republika”, Tuesdays, 8:10pm Channel 8), he related a similar incident on off-loaded luggage by Cebu Pacific. In one out of town work, as part of a news team on assignment, he checked-in a tripod for a camera equipment, only to be later informed at port of landing...
‘Big brother’
Manila, Philippines – IN visioning for the national inter est and how the country is best served, “realpolitik“ must guide policy makers and not hollow pride, most particularly when all we can project are provocative slogans and or diplomatic interventions, with no big stick to wave to look credible, in the international arena. Incoming search terms:sultanate of sulusulu sultanatephilippine...
Visayas & Mindanao elected Senators
Manila, Philippines – THE next Senatorial race is a circus. For 12 slots alone, there will be an over-supply of would-be aspirants. And because it is no longer “the Senate“ our forefathers once dreamed it to be, and just to emphasize the point how far we have strayed and deteriorated I am urging even “national clowns“ to run, in order to win, in hopes, this will have a sobering...
2013 Senators?
Manila, Philippines – The political pot does fill over with the list of big guns reported running for re-election or aspiring for a national seat in a limited 12 slot Senate in 2013. If memory serves, the re-electionist Senators are; Chiz Escudero, Loren Legarda, Gringo Honasan, Allan Peter Cayetano, Antonio Trillanes and Koko Pimentel. For the Liberal Party or a Coalition under the Palace,...
Manual counting for 2013 elections
Manila, Philippines – HAVING witnessed the original “Dagdag-bawas“, and note, computerized cheating, in the 1987 Senatorial Elections applied versus the Grand Alliance for Democracy candidates led by the late Teng Puyat, I was against the fire sale approach of full computerization of the 2010 National Elections. As an aside, this is the back story why sitting Info.Tech. Comelec Commissioner...
ROTC Centennial
Manila, Philippines – Three names come to mind, and deserve honor in the Reserve Officers Training Course Centennial Celebration by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. There is UST Cadet Mark Welson Chua, who’s young life was snuffed out because, as his mourning father once said, “My son died for ROTC”. And there is of course Welson Chua (Mark’s father) who despite the murder of his...
Impeachment tales
Manila, Philippines – After the House Prosecution got its ear washed by several legal lectures cum reprimands from Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, and talking-to rulings from Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile turning down their requests, text circulated in the tenor – “Oust Enrile as an obstacle to the straight path”. The obvious suspects to the Enrile ejection is the corner of the...
Our turn!
Manila, Philippines – I ARRIVED from a sentimental sabbatical to Cebu, cradle of my birth. Touching family, relatives, and colleagues, I sense after initial renewing of filial ties, the uneasiness of brethren bewildered by the “impeachment“ (circus?) in Manila? They want some illumination? But can truth be told? Or is Manila so far detached from the rest of the country, officials as peacocks...
Two dinosaurs
Manila, Philippines – One, of few consolations, in the slow & drawn out process of an ‘Impeachment Case’ vs. Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona is for the people to rejoice in the wisdom of a Bicameral Legislature; and for parliamentary/unicameral minded devotees to realize the essential consequence of a Senate. Had the country adopted a single-Chamber as law-making body, then...
