Former Comelec Chairman Ben Abalos and former NEDA chief Romulo Neri may soon face graft charges on the botched US$329 million national broadband network (NBN) project with Chinese company ZTE. The Office of the Ombudsman appears to be bent on filing criminal charges against Abalos and Neri for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices […]
Month: September 2009
Prescription to an ailing economy
One of my former schoolmates at the university asked me what can be done to improve the economic situation in the Philippines. Perhaps, what the Philippines need to get back on track with its Asian neighbours is a combination of many factors. To name a few: The president must have the administrative […]
Cardinal Pell, please explain: Priest given a holiday after being arrested for Sex Crime? by Marie Rea, BSDevCom
Last 14th of August 2009, Cardinal George Pell of the Catholic Church in Sydney stood down a priest charged with grooming a teenager for sex over the internet. However, the Church still helped to secure his release from custody. It was also reported that the Church paid the priest’s $25,000 bail and offered […]
Rape on board an aircraft
Actually, there are a lot of Saudi (Arabian) rape and abuse cases reported in newspapers. Their government will protect their own citizens and usually turn a blind eye towards the victims (who are mostly foreigners) or even jail them for supposedly making false accusations. The most horrific incident has recently occurred on an Emirates […]
Biography of Gary Lising
My name is Gary Lising. Former Secretary of Health Juan Flavier once said that I have a very nice name – for a disease. I was voted as the sex symbol of Assumption College because according to them, I am the only entertainer that looks like a sex organ. I was already a […]
Kevin & the No Bell Piece Prize
Dino the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called ‘pullets’ and eight or ten roosters, to fertilise the pullets’ eggs. Dino kept records and any rooster that didn’t perform went into the soup pot or frying pan and was replaced. That took an awful lot of […]
BEST INTENTIONS by Marie Rea, BSDevCom There’s No One Else Like Tita Cory!
With the sad passing of the Philippines’ very own “Mother of Democracy,” former president Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino last August, this columnist and her family wish to convey her utmost condolences to the Aquino family. President Aquino’s difficult battle with colon cancer has finally taken its toll! This self-proclaimed “plain housewife” was also […]
Fr. Suarez healing mass in Marayong
Fr. Fernando Suarez will say mass on Oct. 25 at 2:00 pm, Sunday, at St. Andrew The Apostle Catholic Church, 36 Breakfast Road, Marayong NSW 2148. Contact persons are Len Limguangco, Mobile: 0420 981 721; Ike Enriquez at (02) 9626 9096 ?
Manila bar employs dwarfs by John M. Glionna of Los Angeles Times
Every night without fail, Jim Turner is there at the far corner of the bar, chain-smoking his Marlboros and sipping ice-cold San Miguel from the bottle, watching over the Little Ones. He considers them family, but they’re not his children. They’re the dwarfs and other little people the 70-year-old Iowa native has rescued from […]