Just before he left Japan for the flight back to Manila, President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III met with Nikkei president Ryoko Sugita. Sugita invited P-Noy to be a speaker at the Future of Asia forum in Japan in May 2012. P-Noy told Sugita that he would “seriously consider” the invitation and hope that the “state of affairs” then… Read More »
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” This quote, made famous in many films, but none better than in the award-winning “Network,” must have been in the minds of thousands of protesters who joined the Occupy Wall Street rallies in New York and other cities around the United States to protest corporate greed,… Read More »
We have just been through another election a provincial one this time. Of all previous election this one was highly promoted. The newspapers, television and radio continuously encouraged the residents to come out and vote. The means to do it was made much easier; advance polling places were set up; the election ballot was made easily understood and… Read More »
Little did United States Ambassador Harry Thomas realize that his comments on sex tourism and child trafficking during a roundtable discussion with a group of appellate court justices would ignite a maelstrom of controversy. “I estimate that maybe up to 40 percent of foreign men who come here come for sexual tourism and that is unacceptable,” he said.… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi)— Edilberto U. Briones was 23 years old on Nov. 4, 1942 when he joined the Second Guerilla Brigade of the 92nd Division of the Philippine Army of the Leyte Area Command of the U.S. Armed Forces of the Far East in Abuyog, Leyte in the Philippines under Maj. Pedro Gallego. After his induction into the service… Read More »
Last issue I predicted in this column that Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal companeros will once again lord over in this province. I wrote that the Liberals would win although with a slim majority. I was right and wrong. I was right by predicting that the Liberals would win but wrong because the McGuinty government won with only… Read More »
The popular TV “Dancing with the Stars” has just started its new season with some very interesting personalities like Nancy Grace, Chaz Bono, Elizabetta Canalles and J.R. Martinez participating. It has been indeed a pleasure to watch the change in personalities that one assumes some are, like Nancy Grace, from the strict, disciplinary, sharp critic that she is… Read More »
CHICAGO (jGLi) – I applaud the residents of Agusan del Sur in the Philippines for snaring and trapping alive last week a huge prehistoric crocodile touted as the longest and heaviest of its kind in captivity. While the reptile might have consumed humans, who might have crossed his path, this crocodile should not be faulted for attacking humans… Read More »
In 2004, I wrote an article titled, “Hey, do you want to buy buko juice?” (PerryScope, December 10, 2004). At that time, although buko juice – or Coco juice — was then being sold in markets in the United States, it was mostly distributed in Asian markets. You couldn’t find them in mainstream markets then. The following is… Read More »
Economists and lawmakers have warned the Aquino administration again against too much government under-spending in the wake of another below-target economic growth rate in the second quarter of the year. The Philippine economy grew by only 3.4 percent in the second quarter, way below the government target and a big drop from the first quarter’s 4.9-percent growth, which… Read More »