Brother says he owns most of Comelec chiefâs deposits in Luzon Bank
But he canât prove it yet TEN days after the wife of the Commission on Election chairman alleged that Andres Bautista had P330 million in unexplainable wealth deposited in a…
Death, nationalism, China
THE death of a loved one or a friendâtwo friends Michael Marasigan and Roy Sinfuego passed away recentlyâalways reminds one how fleeting life is. Brief it is but life is…
âArbitrationâ suit vs China a colossal cover-up
HE arbitration case that the Philippines filed against the Peopleâs Republic of China was a colossal cover-up for the bungling by President Aquino and his foreign secretary, Alberto del Rosario,…
Our foreign-run Internet the lousiest in Asia; Duterte should take on the telco oligarchs
EVERY quarter since 2009, the Massachusettsâbased Akamai Technologies releases its authoritative âState of the Internetâ report, and its most recent edition, for this yearâs first quarter, point to a stark…
Look beyond the territorial dispute: We must learn from China
First of an occasional series on China I AM quite sure that history will judge that one of President Duterteâs most important achievements is that he steered our country quickly…
Leonen: What a stupid, ignorant and lying SC justice
I HOPE that headline expresses my outrage at Supreme Court Justice Marvic Leonen, against his arguments for his rejectionâthe only such dissent among the 15 justicesâof President Duterteâs imposition of…
Strong leader, weak state
EVEN President Duterteâs harshest critics would, I think, concede that he has emerged as the countryâs strongest President ever, at par with Ferdinand Marcos in the first years of his…
Iconoclastic President? Finally. Revolutionary? Our dream
I wrote the following column on June 30, 2016, the day President Duterte assumed office, and I havenât edited anything in it, since I havenât changed my mind a bit…
CBCP campaign against âfake newsâ targets pro-Duterte sites
THE Catholic Bishopsâ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is at it again, undertaking a move to undermine President Duterte, using religion as a smokescreen. Its penchant for meddling in secular…
Villar and Cayetanoâs Nacionalista Party should expel Trillanes
THEY should have long ago, even before the elections. But Sen. Antonio Trillanesâ recent interview with the British Broadcasting Networkâs much- respected HARDtalk program, in which he not only spewed…