While delegates to the Asian Development Bank annual meeting discussed ways to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor in the region last week, the Aquino administration tried to insulate the rich from the poor by putting up walls that hid the squatter shanties along the esteros near the site of the ADB.
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There’s definitely more than meets the eye in the sud den interest of the Aquino administration in forging a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front at the height of the escalating dispute between the Philippines and China over the Scarborough Shoals in the West Philippine Sea.
Manila Standard’s Jojo Robles was on the right track [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When the “noynoying” concept went viral, Malacanang spokesmen pointed to President Noynoy Aquino’s high approval ratings to stress that those who were “noynoying” during protests and rallies do not reflect the sentiment of the Filipino people. Now that the latest Social Weather Station survey showed that his net approval rating has dropped by nine [...]

If his mother’s yardstick were to be followed, President Noynoy Aquino’s economic program would get a failing grade.
During the snap election campaign in 1986, opposition presidential candidate Corazon Aquino, in downplaying the economic achievements of then President Ferdinand Marcos, said that the price of “galunggong” has risen to P12 a kilo (about 80 US cents [...]

President Aquino’s “Daang Matuwid” has taken another crooked turn with the implication of his friend and classmate, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. chief Cristino Naguiat Jr., in a bribery scandal that came to fore when Wynn Resorts filed a lawsuit accusing its former vice chairman Kazuo Okada of paying off Philippine gaming regulators and cheating [...]

Amid the distraction created by the ongoing impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona are a couple of good news coming from the Department of Education that assures us that it has begun to realize the need to push science education in the Philippines.
On Monday, Education Secretary Armin Luistro allayed fears that the teaching of [...]

In the current hullabaloo over the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, it is good to know that the man who presides over the court that will judge the chief justice understands the consequences of the entire democratic process to the nation and to the institutions that are involved.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, in [...]

“It’s more fun in the Philippines.”
Don’t you believe it? Of course, you do! Of course, I do! As a Filipino who has missed all the fun in the Philippines after 20 years of living outside the country, I can truly say “It’s more fun in the Philippines!”
“It’s more fun in the Philippines.”
The slogan, which was [...]