Editorial
Trump decides to act on cyber attacks
UNITED States President-elect Donald Trump found himself in a truly difficult position when reports came out that Russian hackers, on...
Read moreVestiges of PDAF seen in nat’l budget
The national budget for 2017 has already been approved by Congress and signed by President Duterte but suspicions remain that...
Read moreRemembering Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and United States President Barack Obama went last Tuesday to Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii,...
Read morePope Francis’ message for peace
On New Year’s Day, January 1, Pope Francis decried an attack in Istanbul, Turkey, just hours earlier that had killed...
Read moreA new life for Laguna de Bay
In his State of the Nation Address on July 25, 2016, President Duterte spoke out on many of his concerns...
Read moreNew UN sec-gen faces many big problems
On New Year’s Day, former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres assumed office as secretary-general of the United Nations. He succeeded...
Read moreIt’s the old SSS pension issue all over again
When President Benigno Aquino III in January, 2016, vetoed the P2,000 pension hike of Social Security System (SSS) retirees because...
Read moreHalt this new US-Russia series of retaliations
In the closing days of the Obama administration, the United States government announced sanctions against Russia’s leading intelligence agencies –...
Read moreAssuring words against martial law
"I will never declare martial law,” President Duterte said in a television interview last Thursday. “It will lead to the...
Read moreRemembering Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and United States President Barack Obama went last Tuesday to Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii,...
Read moreOur hopes for change in the new year
The year that ended last night – 2016 – was as a big year for the Philippines. The nation elected...
Read moreA moral, ethical issue for our people
IN the ongoing discussion on the death penalty, which President Duterte wants to return so as to strengthen the rule...
Read moreLP move may signal reawakening of party system
THE Liberal Party, which enjoyed a premier status as the ruling party during the six years of the Aquino administration,...
Read moreRizal Memorial, Intramuros, and other historic sites
The reported move to raze the Rizal Memorial Stadium and replace it with a commercial district with malls and condominiums...
Read moreA new nuclear arms race? We hope not
United States President-elect Donald Trump appeared to have started a nuclear arms race when he pronounced, via Twitter, his communication...
Read moreOld tradition of taping police gun muzzles ends
For years, the Philippine National Police (PNP) made a big show of covering the muzzles of their guns with masking...
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