Editorial
Celebrating 500 years of Christianity in PH
IT’S still a long way off – two years to go before 2021 – but the event we will...
Read morePoll irregularities that must be acted upon
IN the nine months since the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), composed of all members of the Supreme Court, began...
Read moreWe have many of the poor in Oxfam’s study
ON the eve of the World Economic Forum (WEF) which meets every January in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss...
Read moreWhat official weight do tweets have?
SEN. Aquilino Pimentel III asked government officials last Saturday to avoid posting comments on social media on official...
Read moreUS budget crisis worsens all because of a wall
IT has now been a month since most of the federal government of the United States (US) had to...
Read moreClark should spur a renaissance in PH travel
THE upgrading of the Clark International Airport is well underway, following groundbreaking rites for a new terminal building which,...
Read morePH at center of world pollution problem
AN international alliance formed to fight plastic waste around the world came out his week with a statement that...
Read moreThe importance of our ties with US & China
THE Philippines was a colony of the United States for less than half a century, after three and a half...
Read moreGov’t urged to keep close watch on prices
THE fuel price increases that took effect in the Philippines this week were the result of the world’s oil...
Read moreIt will take years to clean up Manila Bay
IT took six months to clean up Boracay’s waters. It will take seven years to clean up Manila Bay...
Read moreLet’s not burden citizens with additional red tape
WHY should passport holders seeking to renew their old passports be required to present their birth certificates when this...
Read moreIt’s ‘election period’ but not yet ‘campaign period’
WHAT is the point of designating an “election period” different from a “campaign period”? The “election period” for...
Read morePresident assures the nation’s teachers
THE year started rather badly for teachers early this month when police intelligence officers were reported gathering a...
Read moreSurvey shows leading names in Senate polls
THE latest Pulse Asia survey shows the same familiar names at the top of the list – reelectionist...
Read moreConflicting Charter drafts need to be reconciled
ALTHOUGH Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said the current 17th Congress has no more time to meet as a...
Read moreThe same steely political will to clean up Manila Bay
THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has set its sights on the coastal areas around Manila Bay...
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