29. Alam n'yo kaya na ngayon ang ika-115 na pagdiriwang ng pinakaunang
labanan ng Himagsikan bago pa man ang pangkalahataang pag-aaklas? Ngayon
unang lum...
The ₱750-billion question
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HOTSPOT It is unconventional wisdom but governments, past and present,
actually owe generations of jeepney drivers and operators a lot. The fact
is, these ...
‘Ap-piece-ment’
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- Written by Herman Tiu Laurel
- Friday, 12 October 2012 00:00
*T*he acknowledged territory of the Republic of the Philippines has since
Eds...
Return to the Cordilleras
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4 MIN READ I’ve always believed that people are more than just mindless
consumers, “target audience,” “constituents,” laborers, pawns. People are
meant f...
Treasury bonds to fetch lower yields on demand
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TREASURY BONDS (T-bonds) on offer this week would likely see yields trend
lower amid strong demand, with the government seen to make the award ahead
of an ...
Manananggal in the city again
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GET READY to see the manananggal fly once again as Prime Cruz's Ang
Manananggal sa Unit 23B will return to theaters -- this time for a
nationwide release -...
ISAF has been conducting security operations
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Sed a velit vitae nunc porta iaculis. Aliquam tempus rutrum diam, non
tincidunt odio pharetra vitae. Nulla facilisi. Duis sed laoreet dui. Duis a
risus n...
Renato Lucas: Bach’s music is geometry of the mind
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When cellist Renato Lucas returns at the Manila Pianos May 5 for another
round of Bach suites and a sonata, he will most likely bring with him years
of e...
Real problems need real solutions
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Unless the real problems of Philippine basic education are addressed with
real solutions, it will continue to be the less than reliable foundation
for th...
6 AUGUST
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*1907 - Gen. Macario Sakay, one of the Filipino military leaders who had
continued fighting the imperialist United States invaders eight years into
the Ph...
The people have decided,” but which people — only those who voted for the winning candidate? Of course not, those “who have spoken” should include even those who voted for the other candidates. Theirs too are supposed to be heard through the ballots, in the PCOS machines, in the transmittal and the canvassing boards up to the end of the whole constitutional process in these democratic elections.
And this is precisely what President Joseph Estrada is up to when he refuses to concede to the leading candidate, Sen. Noynoy Aquino.
President Erap regardless of being the second placer in this ongoing unofficial count had to make sure that those who voted for him are counted properly and spared from any intentions of manipulation, for instance being shaved off from his and added to another favored candidate. Neither is he displaying the loser-syndrome of sour graping. President Estrada had worse experiences in the past, yet has managed them in mature statesmanship. He believes that only in an election can the poor level off with the rich; and therefore every vote counts, every vote needs to be read, counted, transmitted and registered in the canvass boards regardless of whether it could materially affect the margins of the leading candidate!... MORE
Africa undergoes continental shift
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It is not what you think. Perhaps, continental drift – as in 'pivot' –
would be a more apt descriptor. The pivot is not that ominous in physical
terms. Sci...
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"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author
Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and
201...
Pilipenko’s case: pacifists out
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Economist Vladislav Inozemtsev writes about the change in the leadership of
the Federal Chamber of Lawyers “At the end of last week ... at a meeting of
the...
Twitter testing new design for Android app
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Micro-blogging website Twitter is testing a new design for an Android app
version to make it more user-friendly and easy to navigate
50 Years after the Portuguese Revolution
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April 25, 1974. The song Grândola, Vila Morena by José Afonso played on the
radio, signalling the beginning of the end of Portugal’s Estado Novo
Fascist re...
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Charles Oppenheimer, grandson of the nuclear physicist, is warning about
existential threats and says cooperation is the only way we can address
them.
US gives pass to Pakistan in 2009 CIA camp attack
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US officials made light of disclosures in declassified cables that
Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI had bankrolled the second-largest
single-day slaughte...
Pope Francis makes historic first US visit
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Pope Francis arrived in the United States on Tuesday for his first visit a
historic sixday trip during which his focus on consumerism poverty and the
margi...
New HLSP: COS-GAL
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New HLSP: COS-GAL (Zheng et al. 2019). A collection of continuum normalized
spectra for 401 QSO's taken from the Hubble Spectroscopic Legacy Archive,
combi...
Cassini captures speeding star dust grain
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Alien dust in the solar system is not unanticipated. In the 1990s, the
ESA/NASA Ulysses mission made the first in-situ observations of this
material. Cassi...
Awaiting my execution: A letter from Iran
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BREAKING: Saman Naseem’s execution did not go ahead as originally scheduled
on the morning of Thursday 19 February. More information to come. Saman
remains...
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