She can thank Filipinos outside the United States for their prayers. But she should thank Filipinos in America for their votes.
During the last three Wednesday nights, ever since Jessica Sanchez was “saved” by American Idol judges Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson after being nearly eliminated for having the fewest number of votes from [...]

Chinese fishermen were being credited for allegedly discovering the Scarborough (Panatag or Bajo Masinloc or Huangyan) Shoal back during the Yuan Dynasty in 1279.
And the Shoal is 126 nautical miles west of Philippines’ Subic Port or about 600 nautical miles south of Guangzhou.
Granting without admitting that the Chinese fishermen made the discovery, did it grant [...]

‘’The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,’’
 — Dick the Butcher in ‘’Henry VI,’’
PartII, act IV, Scene II, Line 73 of William Shakespeare
 
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 become a thing of [...]

When I put up a 100,000-peso (about US$25,000 at about 4 pesos to a U.S. dollar parity) bounty for information that could lead to the solution of the disappearance of Tempo newsman Tim Olivarez in the early 80’s, The Rizal Metro Manila Tri-Media Association (Tri-Media) received plenty of leads but mostly false alarms.
The reason – tipsters [...]

“11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon  
seventy years. 12 But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land  of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever.”?      
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Many people are wondering why Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona is keeping everybody guessing if he is going to testify or not before the Senate trying him for alleged impeachable offenses.
Number 7 of Section 3 of Philippine Constitution’s Article XI for Accountability of Public Officers provides, “Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further [...]

When American casino developer Stephen A. Wynn declined the invitation of his former partner Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada for him to meet with Philippine President Noynoy Aquino (P-Noy) for a handshake agreement that will take a bite out of $33-billion gambling tourism in nearby Macau, Mr. Aquino should have asked full and truthful disclosures from [...]

Despite the common stands taken by Philippine Senate President and concurrent Senator-Judge Chief Juan Ponce Enrile and Senate-Judge legal heavyweight Miriam Defensor Santiago that there are differences in the Impeachment Trial between the Philippines and United States, there is very good chance that there are also big similarities.
I am referring to a clause on both [...]

A story in the Manila Bulletin last Tuesday (Jan. 31) of a woman serving 18 years in jail for a minor (misdemeanor) violation of (Manila) City Ordinance 1638 commonly known as vagrancy is something that should shake the conscience of the members of  Philippine Congress.
A mere lip service, saying that Manila Judge Amalia Gumapos-Ricablanca had ordered Susan Zulueta released [...]

“Kung sino ang malapit sa kalan ang siyang nauulingan.”?  (Whoever is near the pan gets the pan’s black coating.)
  —  Filipino proverb
With the attention of the Filipino people riveted on the impeachment of Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona, I am going to digress for now from it by discussing a graft case that was [...]