Those islets and shoals west of the Philippines have again come to the limelight with Philippine and Chinese vessels engaging in a battle of nerves over what both the Philippines and China claim to be their territories. The standoff began on April 8 when a Philippine Navy surveillance aircraft monitored eight Chinese fishing vessels anchored inside the Bajo… Read More »
It may not be so apparent but President Aquino is under siege from many sides. Observer wonders if he’ll survive for long. A reformist president will attract opposition, some virulent, sooner or later. Mr. Aquino ran under the banner of a crusade to clean up government, identify past plunderers and lock them up for a long time. Already… Read More »
”The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” — Dick the Butcher in ”Henry VI,” Part II, act IV, Scene II, Line 73 of William Shakespeare CHICAGO (jGLi) – There are only very few Filipino American lawyers in the Chicago, Illinois community. But at the rate community lawyers are conducting their practice, this legal profession might… Read More »
I grew up in Pangasinan, in beautiful town of Lingayen, graduating in physiotherapy from Virgin Milagrosa University. But these days, I run a physiotherapy clinic in Toronto at St. Clair and Dufferin. I have learned so much about accident recovery, chronic pain – and what my patients really want. In this column I look forward to sharing my… Read More »
It is scandalous. It is hypocritical. While Canadians hype themselves as being tolerant, humane, gentle and polite people, the opposite happens in ice hockey, bandied and glorified as Canada’s national sport. It spurts blood! The Wikipedia says violence has been with ice hockey since the 1900. It also says that in 1904 alone four players were killed. It… Read More »
Prior to this writer’s departure to Canada 2 years back, I had a long chat with ex-movie queen Amalia Fuentes. She was then dispirited out of her separation with ex-husband Joey Stevens which resulted to their exchange of court cases. A bitter Amalia expressed her hatred for Joey. For several years, he hid the fact that he had… Read More »
More than half a million students graduate from more than 2,000 colleges and universities in the Philippines every year. Only about 30 to 40 percent of them would find any kind of employment, and only about 5 to 10 percent would be employed in jobs that match their course, while close to 60 percent would join the growing… Read More »
There is no dearth of material source for writing on the impeachment of CJ Corona. There is as much dirt as there is much dearth of clean surface to write on. Those who have time say their pieces of criticisms or defense and vent their anger as emails to media and as feed to the internet. As yet,… Read More »
With the 2016 presidential election still four years away, Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay is busy forming a grand “opposition” political union of his party, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), with other political parties. And on top of the heap of those he’s trying to lure into his new United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) is former President… Read More »
By David Grossman SPECIAL TO BALITA It took quite some time for Melissa Vilar to understand that she was not living in a dream. The 19-year old native of Toronto, and of Philipino descent, attended the annual George Brown College salute to athletes, coaches and officials expecting to share the good times, memories and more in the final… Read More »