Archive for the ‘Malaya’ Category

Making up to Hongkong (subtitle:Donald Tsang who?)

President Aquino yesterday called up Donald Tsang, chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, to personally express his condolences to the families of eight Hongkong residents who died last Monday in Manila after they were held hostage by a dismissed policeman while on a sightseeing tour. Malacañang [...]

August 25, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Malaya, Peace and Order, Philippine National Police  141 Comments

Remembering Capt Rene Jarque

Last Thursday, Aug. 19, was the fifth death anniversary of Capt. Rene Jarque, an officer I have always held in awe for his superior intellect and unblemished integrity. Rene died of a heart attack at the young age of 40 in Jakarta, where he was an executive of a multinational corporation. A graduate of the [...]

August 23, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Malaya, Military  17 Comments

The incredible and talented Boy Gee

There were two significant things that Rear Admiral Feliciano Angue mentioned in his marathon griping with media the past few days. One is the continued thriving career of Maj. Gen. Gaudencio “Boy Gee” Pangilinan, one of Gloria Arroyo’s dependable generals, under Aquino’s supposedly reformist administration. Angue identified Pangilinan as one of the Class ’79 officers [...]

August 20, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Malaya, Military  11 Comments

Tenor Arthur Espiritu captures Manila

Video produced by elementary school classmates of Arthur: My writer friend Nelson Navarro said he was glad he went to watch tenor Arthur Espiritu last Saturday despite his restricted mobility, walking with the aid of a cane due to a recent stroke. I went with Charmaine Deogracias of NHK TV and we were so happy [...]

August 16, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Arts and Culture, Malaya  14 Comments

What’s with Joker?

Sen. Joker Arroyo just won’t give up even if he had been reduced to stammering after he was proven wrong about his opposition to Senate Resolution 84 that seeks custody of detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV so could perform his duties as elected legislator. Yesterday, Arroyo tried to block the implementation of the Senate resolution [...]

August 12, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Magdalo, Malaya  29 Comments

Beautiful singing

Update, Aug. 15: Arthur Espiritu was fantastic last night at the Viva Bel Canto concert. His voice has a pristine quality and he moves with certain savvy. It’s such a joy listening and watching him on stage. One of the rare times that the Philamlife theater was full. Thanks to Klassikal Music Foundation (Donald Yang), [...]

August 11, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Arts and Culture, Malaya  9 Comments

Justice for Phillip Pestaño

This was one time when I remarked,”Multuhin ka sana.” Even if one wants to give Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez the benefit of the doubt, it’s really difficult not to join the call for her ouster with the recent decision of her office to dismiss the murder charges filed by the family of Ensign Phillip Pestaño against [...]

August 4, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Malaya, Military  34 Comments

Humaneness in the age of technology

Stirring journalism and security worlds are WikiLeaks releases of classified military documents on the war in Afghanistan filched by a 22-year old American intelligence analyst from State department online files. The leaked documents are unprecedented in terms of volume – 91,000 diplomatic cables out of the 260,000 that Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst, said he [...]

August 2, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Cyberspace, Malaya, Media  11 Comments

Plagiarized statements to support an unjust decision

It was a heart-rending scene. Seventeen grandmothers, in the sunset of their lives, staged a rally Monday before the Supreme Court protesting the plagiarism in the decision that denied them remedy for the wartime savagery they suffered. Their counsel, CenterLaw’s Harry Roque, call the April 28, 2010 decision, the ”third siege of Mapanique” The first [...]

July 21, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Human Rights, Malaya  66 Comments

Trust equals confidence

The latest survey of the Social Weather Station should encourage President Benigno Aquino III to be his own man and assert his leadership as influence groups exert pressure on him, some out of a genuine desire to help him and others to push their own agenda. The survey conducted June 25 to 28, a few [...]

July 19, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Malaya, surveys  36 Comments