PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House More than 23,000 people have been killed and tens of thousands injured following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria last Monday. Two Filipinos were among those who died in Türkiye. Reports say that the Feb. 6...
OF TREES AND FORESTS Former Senate President Manny Villar Being president is a complex and difficult job. The President has a multitude of responsibilities. He is the Chief Executive in that he overseas the entire bureaucracy of the Philippine government. He is the foremost architect of our foreign...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) urged the local government units (LGUs) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) to grant persons who were addicted to illegal drugs but already wants to reform their lives easy access to the government’s rehabilitation and...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina “The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery,” wrote social reformer Frederick Douglass in 1849 so that slavery would be “forever abolished.” Yet, sadly, the misery of being tortured, raped, butchered, and...
Padilla fully supports bill giving additional benefits to former Presidents Senator Robinhood C. Padilla fully supports a bill giving additional benefits to former Presidents especially since their sacrifices for the nation continue. ‘’I am sure they have much to contribute to our nation, even...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. De Venecia Jr. We were delighted to see our old friend and fellow Pangasinense, the US-based Roger Oriel, who owns and publishes the popular Asian Journal newspaper, with circulation in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York City, and New...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar We are back. The Philippine economy beat expectations by recording a spectacular growth of 7.2 percent in the last quarter of 2022. This in turn contributed to a 7.6 percent growth for the whole year. This was nothing short of astounding in...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina There’s no doubt that acquiring a good education is dependent on a person’s ability to learn, and such ability can be formed by experiences in early childhood. During the formative years in one’s life, the ability to “learn how to learn”...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. De Venecia Jr. In February 2011, demonstrations broke out in the Libyan City of Benghazi, which eventually led to the tragic death of Muammar Gaddafi in October the same year at his hometown of Sirte, located between the capital Tripoli and Benghazi....
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar One of the critical challenges facing the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is the problem of transportation. And one particular problem revolves around our airports. This was in full public and global view on New Year’s Day...
Today, Jan. 25, 2023, is the 90th birth anniversary of Maria Corazon “Cory” Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino who served as the 11th President of the Republic of the Philippines from Feb. 25, 1986 to June 30, 1992. She opposed then President Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr. in a hotly contested snap election...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina The news that China’s population of 1.41 billion people has fallen for the first time in six decades is quite troubling for our giant neighbor. The number of deaths in 2022 exceeding that of births by 850,000 is seen by experts on demographics as...
