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Senatorial bets discuss teachers’ rights, going nuclear amid power crisis
NIKKA CORSINO
GMANews.TV
Senatorial candidates on Friday discussed the country’s present education system, stressing the need for protective legislation for teachers, who they said, must be spared from election obligations in succeeding polls.
Other [...]
Continue Reading →Tempers fly in vice presidential debate
By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—ABS-CBN’S vice presidential debate televised nationwide on Sunday night lived up to its billing as a confrontation.
After weeks of blasting each other in the media, leading vice presidential candidates Sen. [...]
Continue Reading →Teodoro urges Mindanao residents to stop culture of violence
By Jaime Laude
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential candidate Gilberto Teodoro Jr. yesterday urged Mindanao residents to stop the culture of violence that has been hampering development in the region and instead [...]
Continue Reading →Editorial: Blank check
Philippine Daily Inquirer
PLACING the entire island of Mindanao under a “state of calamity” allows affected towns, cities and provinces suffering from a severe power shortage to use as much as five percent of their respective budgets to fund emergency measures. This [...]
Continue Reading →When straight emits the odor of crooked
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo
The Philippine Star
There is a paid TV ad titled Ituwid natin (Let’s straighten it out) that has been airing on ABS-CBN TV Patrol and Umagang kay ganda [...]
Continue Reading →Palace: No need to worry about use of calamity funds
By Marvin Sy
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang allayed fears raised by some politicians that the authority of local government units (LGU) to manage the calamity funds could become a source of [...]
Continue Reading →Presidential aspirants warn vs use of disaster funds in Mindanao for polls
GMANews.TV
Following the declaration of a state of calamity over Mindanao due to the power shortage there, two presidential aspirants on Friday warned against the possible use of disaster funds for election purposes.
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Continue Reading →Guingona: DA, NFA executives making millions
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Opposition Rep. Teofisto Guingona III claimed yesterday that so-called “crocodiles” or corrupt government officials are raking in millions of dollars in commissions on rice importations.
Guingona, a congressman of Bukidnon and a senatorial [...]
Continue Reading →‘Energy crisis just artificial’
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Sen. Richard Gordon said the power crisis in Mindanao is artificial and may be part of a sinister plot, and demanded an explanation from the Arroyo administration.
“They should explain why there is a power [...]
Continue Reading →GMA may bypass Congress on crisis
By Paolo Romero
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo is considering bypassing Congress in dealing with the energy crisis in Mindanao.
Palace legal experts believe an “aggressive” interpretation of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act or [...]
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- The Thai experience
The Thai experience (or why P-Noy …
The Philippines it seems is engulfed in all things Hollywood at the moment. With the filming of the Bourne Legacy taking place in Manila filling the nightly news with human…
- Learned Optimism
Learned Optimism
Reality checks are always needed by over-confident governments.
Martin Seligman the founder of positive psychology uncovered a pattern of behavior that he believes is responsible for greater resilience and happiness among…
- P-Noy strokes the Nation's 'Pleasure Zones'
P-Noy strokes nation’s ‘pleasure zones’
Here we go again. As the Philippines enters 2012, the stage is set for another round of reality TV/courtroom drama to unfold as the trials of former president and now…
