(Acting) Justice Secretary says it’s lawyer Harry Roque’s fault that Suwaib Upham, said to be a key witness for the prosecution in the Maguindanao Massacre, was left unprotected.
A dubious world record: the Philippines is 51st on Foreign Policy’s Failed States Index, slightly better off than Bolivia and the West Bank (sort of not a state, I guess). 51. PHILIPPINES Score: 87.1 Democratic elections will see power transfer from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to her successor, Benigno S. Aquino III, at the end of [...]
Relax, Reporters Without Borders! Nestor Bedolido, the journalist shot six times in Davao Sur was just a regular guy according to the local police chief. “He is not a practicing journalist, but is a propagandist. He is working for some political personalities in the province” That somehow makes his death less tragic, I guess. The [...]
Well, all right. The actual headline on ABS-CBN news was “Army sergeant dies in freak accident in Taguig,” but there was nothing really freaky about what happened. A guy has an argument with his wife, walks out, and is run over by a black van. It was surprising, but not freaky by any standard. If [...]
In this week of student protests, University of the Philippines (not to be confused with the Polytechnic University of the Philippines) threw paint bombs at a member of the university’s Board of Regents. While some sectors may call the protest action ‘awesome shit,’ there may have been less ecstatic reactions from some of UP’s more [...]
Raise high the red banner of militancy at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines! Onward the proletariat! Or whatever. Christ Jesus, PUP student leaders, doesn’t wrecking school equipment sort of, I don’t know, suddenly justify the tuition fee increase you guys are protesting? Sort of like shooting yourself in the foot there, guys. And then, [...]
Here’s a novel way to solve Manila’s parking problem (somehow): don’t let people without parking spaces at home buy cars. Alliance for Rural Concerns Rep. Narciso Santiago III wants the Land Transportation Office to refuse to register cars whose owners do not have “a proof of permanent parking space for his automobile.” “People should be [...]
Remember that grade school retort “wala yan sa lolo ko? (roughly: my grandfather is even more badass than that)” that nobody ever really used except ironically?
We generally prefer GMANews.tv to Inquirer.net because there are fewer typographical and grammar errors (and ads.) Sometimes, though, they put up articles that leave us scratching our heads. Consider this gem, for example: Also in December, the Department of Health’s Web site was hacked to show DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III blowing on “penises.” Now, [...]