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Shortly before the end of his first day of testimony before the Senate impeachment court this past Tuesday, Chief Justice Renato Corona declared his willingness to waive his right of confidentiality concerning the details of his bank accounts, and authorized the clerk of the Supreme Court to release

Last Friday evening, a slum area just outside Manila’s North Harbor erupted in an eight-hour inferno that destroyed between 600 and 800 dwellings and left between 5,000 and 10,000 people homeless. These sorts of massive fires happen about once a month in Metro Manila, a regular reminder of how this

As if there were not enough pointless diversions in the apparently endless impeachment trial and an airport brawl among a bunch of entitled douchebags, it would seem that we’ve been given one more thing to distract us all from actual important issues this week with an unexpected rise in the noise le

As expected, President BS Aquino in his traditional Labor Day pro forma “dialogue” with labor interests yesterday rejected calls for a Php-125 blanket increase in the country’s minimum wage, and added that he also would not support HB 4853, which proposes the prohibition of labor sub-contracting in

At one time, Marion Barry was considered a rising star among America’s big-city mayors, a powerful African-American political mover and shaker in the same class as Chicago’s Harold Washington and Los Angeles’ Tom Bradley, and there was a time when what he had to say about business, jobs, and the wea

While yesterday’s media chatter quite understandably turned its focus on the not entirely surprising “final and executory” ruling of the Supreme Court in the Hacienda Luisita case against the kin of the nation’s OIC, the brutal clash on Monday between police and squatters in Parañaque should not be

In my latest article for GR Business Online, I characterized President BS Aquino’s objectives to “de-escalate” the ongoing standoff with China over the Scarborough Shoal and to “assert the Philippines’ sovereignty” over the disputed area as a weak and indecisive response, because it is fundamentally

After just about a week of slacktivist rage, the issue of the cutting of nearly 200 pine trees by retail giant SM to make room for the expansion of their Baguio mall has dropped off the public radar, which is disappointing but not surprising. People in this country have a short attention span, and w