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Monthly Archives for June 2011
Aquino’s first year: The good and the bad
One area where the year-old Aquino government has made reforms, slow it may be, is in the fight against graft and corruption through reforms in the justice system. This is not to say that Aquino has eliminated graft and corruption … Continue reading
Hindi pinatawad ni Arroyo at ng mga galamay ang PCSO
Related links: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/18365/gloria-arroyo-left-p4-b-debt-says-pcso http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/18695/pcso-bares-ad-kickbacks Nakabalandra ang salitang “Charity” sa titulo na Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office dahil yan ang rason bakit ipinatayo ang opisinang yun. Ang ibig sabihin ng “Charity” ay kawang-gawa. Ang kawang-gawa ay para sa mga mahihirap. Hindi binibigyan … Continue reading
Robredo no longer ‘acting’ DILG secretary, gets regular appointment from Aquino
After almost a year, President Benigno Aquino III has decided that he can work with Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, whom he is keeping in the Cabinet and to whom he is finally handing over supervision of the … Continue reading
Cooling the tempers over Spratlys
With the ongoing positioning by claimant parties in the contested waters of the South China Sea as backdrop, the Foreign Service Institute of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs is holding a two-day conference on the South China Sea that … Continue reading
Walang akong ituturo -Michael Ray Aquino
Sa kanyang statement pagdating niya dito kahapon ng umaga mula sa sampung taong paninirahan sa Amerika, klarong sinabi ni dating Police Senior Superintendent Michael Ray Aquino na hindi siya inutusan ni dating Pangulong Joseph Estrad o si Sen. Panfilo Lacson … Continue reading
Walang “K” bumanat ang magnanakaw
Ang isang rason bakit pinupuna ko ang mga palpak ni Pangulong Aquino at ng kanyang mga tauhan ay dahil ayaw kong magkakaroon ng oportunidad si Gloria Arroyo na tatawa at magsabing, “Ayan, banat kayo ng banat sa akin. Ano ngayun … Continue reading
Precision journalism
There’s a lot I have to learn writing about survey results. By Mahar Mangahas Philippine Daily Inquirer The June 3-6, 2011 Social Weather Survey, reported through (but not commissioned by) BusinessWorld last Tuesday, has 64 percent satisfied and 18 percent … Continue reading
3 Cabinet men giving P-Noy headaches
By Delon Porcalla The Philippine Star President Aquino dreads seeing two or three members of his Cabinet he considers harbingers of bad news. Aquino’s candid admission was made before dozens of officials and employees of the Department of Public Works … Continue reading
Chit Estella Awards for Journalism: continuing her advocacy for good journalism
Last Tuesday, June 21, on the 40th day of the death Chit Estella-Simbulan, journalist and teacher, her family and friends brought her ashes to her earthly resting place at the San Agustin church columbarium in Intramuros after a mass officiated … Continue reading
South China Sea issue
By Roberto R. Romulo Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs It seems that the situation in the South China Sea is taking a turn for the worse. The increasingly harsh rhetoric is now being backed by a display of muscle. China … Continue reading
