A tall order for Vice President Jejomar Binay? This Monday (May 6), the 5’0″ Binay will come face-to-face with Yao Ming, the 7’6″ retired Chinese basketball superstar who will pay him a courtesy call at the Coconut Palace.
Why not Benedict XVII? John Paul III? Paul VII? Pius XIII? Or even Peter II?
On the eve of the papal conclave, Catholics rooting for Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle got an unexpected boost with the release of the Italian translation of his 8-year-old book intended to re-ignite the “value of community in a divided world.”
The leadership of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) has officially agreed not to use the Sabah conflict as a campaign issue but it is another thing for individual candidates.
China’s announcement that it would expel all foreign ships entering disputed areas in the South China Sea, including parts known as the West Philippine Sea, gives the Philippines more reason to seek a multilateral approach to resolve the problem, former Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Rodolfo Biazon said on Friday.
Officials of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) on Tuesday faced a hostile House committee over their apparent failure to sanction a local consignee implicated in the smuggling of nearly P500-million worth of Indian rice last April.
President Benigno Aquino should support Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario in the internecine row over the search for a diplomatic solution to the Philippines’ territorial dispute with China in the West Philippine Sea, an administration congressman said Wednesday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday quickly thumbed down suggestions that former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo seek a second opinion on her medical condition from specialists in New York, after doctors early this week found a blockage in her neck.
With China aggressively asserting its claims in the West Philippine Sea, a lawmaker suggested on Thursday that it might be time for the Philippines to ask the United Nations for a peacekeeping force to prevent armed clashes between the two countries in the disputed waters.
Let the United States police the disputed waters of Scarborough Shoal and keep the peace.
Spy planes are OK, but then what? Senator Gregorio Honasan called, on Tuesday, for an actual military presence by the United States in the Scarborough Shoal and other disputed areas in the West Philippine Sea to help protect Philippine interests there.
Did the Philippines commit a strategic blunder on the Scarborough standoff when it went to Washington for the much ballyhooed national security meeting?
