BRIDGES: China’s ‘island-building’ strategy
SAMMY JULIAN
ALTHOUGH Beijing’s precise plan remains speculative, the international community should seriously consider the short- and medium-term implications of China’s large-scale “island building” in...
FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY: Urban farming
IKE SEÑERES
FOOD security is not a problem for the rich people because they would always have the money to buy food, assuming that there...
VIEWPOINTS: Asylum
ABP. OSCAR CRUZ
THE benefit of “Asylum,” supposedly asked from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) by a now well-known woman for the...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Mobocracy
BY ROMMEL YNION
WE should have seen it coming but, apparently, our “institutional” memory has not been responsive to current events that we have somehow...
BRIDGES: Overseas voter registration
BY SAMMY JULIAN
FOR the first time in the 11-year electoral history of Philippine overseas voting, overseas voter registration (OVR) has breached the one million...
RURAL UPDATE: Attract more investors: No tax increase please
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IN our column last week titled, “The ranking of our cities”, Iloilo was on 19th place in terms of income as against other Philippine cities in 2013, according to...
PEOPLE POWWOW: Forced resignation no ground for denial of seaman’s disability claim
By HERBERT VEGO
IF a certified “fit-to-work” seaman falls ill on the job and resigns, is he entitled to such disability benefits as provided by...
WORM’S EYE VIEW: Racket scientists
BY ROMMEL YNION
THEY are simply there in the dark, lurking, waiting, salivating, and casting a moist eye on the next prey. No, not even...
ACCENTS: Inside a concentration camp
BY JULIA CARREON-LAGOC
Immersion: the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was first in my mind. Instead, I opted for the generic title above — thinking that to...
BRIDGES: Baseless claims; assurances made
By SAMMY JULIAN
THE Tumandok people are the largest indigenous people’s group in Panay.
However, the Ecumenical Advocacy Network on the Philippines (EANP) has claimed that...