MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivered her State of the Nation Address (SONA) completely oblivious to the past year’s biggest corruption scandal that defined the state of the nation’s morals.
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Daily Inquirer front page on Tuesday featured a photo of a mother and three small children silhouetted against the light, living in a hammock under a bridge, with the fetid tide just two feet below them.
THE SUPREME COURT RECENTLY REPRImanded a judge for telling a lawyer, upon learning that he didn’t share the judge’s alma mater: “Then you’re not from UP.
MANILA, Philippines—Government and activist groups have banded together to launch what they call a “Zero Basura Olympics: Philippine Garbology Marathon 2008” to promote a “basura-free [garbage-free] landscape, a zero-waste lifestyle.”
MANILA, Philippines—We have just seen two extreme forms of censorship. The first was extreme in its brutality. Bert Sison, a 60-year-old newsman and broadcaster in Quezon Province, was driving his Toyota Corolla with his two daughters, when two motorcycle riding men cut in front and showered them with bullets.
MANILA, Philippines—I was crestfallen to read that a University of the Philippines (UP) college freshman, who qualified as a Chemistry major, dropped out after three days of school in the Diliman campus.
MANILA, Philippines—We tend to fudge labels, and we confuse not just the enemy but also ourselves, and it’s costing us plenty. No, no ransom money was paid, just reimbursement for “board and lodging.”
