The book Crossover Leadership in Asia: Staying Whole in Two Halves could not have come at a better time. Subtitled From Civil Society to Government, its insights and inside stories seem tailor-made for the moment, as Filipinos at home and abroad grapple with another crisis surnamed Macapagal-Arroyo.
In my last article, I wrote that the cancer of corruption pointed out by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, or CBCP, had been growing for a long time within their eyesight.
THE testimony by Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada Jr. that former Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos Jr. and the husband of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, first gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo.
I was utterly shocked to see the photos of Filipino actress Ara Mina "hotting it up" with the ascetic ideologue Jose Maria Sison, whose writings I read while studying Asian politics at SOAS in London. I also am a keen student of Asia cinema, and I am familiar with the career of Ms Mina.
JOHN NERY - SOME JOURNALISTS are uneasy about surveys—in part because they involve numbers and in part because they are a competing source of influence. But there is no getting away from political polls; in a democracy, which depends on the consent of the governed, they are a necessity.
