FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY: Moving forward with the family farms idea
BY IKE SEÑERES
ACTUALLY, the family farms idea is not entirely new.
Family farms have existed in the Philippines for a long time now, including the...
RURAL UPDATE: Budgeting and control
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
AS early as the middle of last month, we heard of the plan of Iloilo City to increase the rate of real property tax (RPT).
In our column of July...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Why disabled seamen should demand, not wait, for disability benefits
By HERBERT VEGO
THIS corner has met a number of seamen who have no choice but “abandon” ship without finishing their contract term due to...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Manny Pacquiao’s ordeal
BY ROMMEL YNION
ORGANIZATION only mirrors the personality of its leader.
Nothing illustrates this axiom more than the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III. Noynoy,...
BRIDGES: Bureaucracy stalls TPS designation
BY SAMMY JULIAN
WE have yet to see the end of the campaign to push the Obama administration to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to...
BRIDGES: Sufferings of comfort women continue
FILIPINO comfort women, a Japanese euphemism for wartime sex slaves, continue to demand recognition and compensation from the Japanese government for sexual slavery its...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Imagine we were a Chinese territory
By HERBERT VEGO
ONE of the newspaper clippings I recently fished out of my reference folder is a translation of a commentary by He Jia,...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Money Trail
BY ROMMEL YNION
DEEP Throat, the shadowy figure in the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s that led to President Richard Nixon’s fall, mapped out the...
BRIDGES: Seeking new definition of savings
BY SAMMY JULIAN
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has already asked Congress to institutionalize two budgetary terms in the proposed 2015 national budget: to allow declaration...
COMMENTARY: Banks rule
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS
Bulatlat Perspective
A WEEK before his fifth State of the Nation Address, President Benigno Aquino III signed into law Republic Act (RA) 10641...