They call it the– what? “The Green Wall,” our banker friend said. He oversees banks in the Visayas. Mangroves in Eastern Samar buffered the storm surge that killed thousands elsewhere, his clients stated. That’s correct, wrote Neil Chatterjee, writing for Bloomberg. In Southeast Asia, replanted mangroves are getting credit for protecting against tsunamis and typhoons [...]
Reports on officials “sick, sick, sick” from gorging at the pork barrel straddle headlines and newscasts. These smudged reports on the passing last week of a soldier who wrote about how guerrillas seized the “Koga Papers”. That radically altered World War II’s liberation battle for the Philippines.
Reports on officials “sick, sick, sick” from gorging at the pork barrel straddle headlines and newscasts. These smudged reports on the passing last week of a soldier who wrote about how guerrillas seized the “Koga Papers”. That radically altered World War II’s liberation battle for the Philippines.
Aslew of comments, from caustic to enthusiastic, flooded in as Inquirer readers reacted to the Nov. 30 column: “Slow Suicide.” This “Viewpoint” essay tried to place Pope Francis’ letter “The Joy of the Gospel” in the Philippine context. “We do not live better when we refuse to share, cushioned by our our comforts,” Francis wrote [...]
A church “bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets” is preferable to a church jittery about “going astray,” Pope Francis warns in “The Joy of the Gospel,” published Tuesday. Fear instead being locked within rules that make us “comfortable but harsh judges.”
We tacked up again those Christmas star lanterns Sunday. We stashed the parols before Supertyphoon “Yolanda/ Haiyan” barreled through. The five-candle Advent wreath is back in our sala. So is the Christmas tree. The wife dusted off the Nativity figurines: Mary, Joseph shepherds, Magi, sheep, cattle plus manger. Our family places the Infant in the [...]
Did this report update what Inquirer’s “Viewpoint” column of January 12, 2010 originally titled, ““Memory of the Heart”?
When TV crews race cargo ships with airplanes and helicopters, the cameras always win,” John Crowley of Harvard’s Humanitarian Initiative wrote after supertyphoon “Yolanda/Haiyan” battered the Visayas. Planes can fly 24 to 48 hours after a storm clears. And disembarking journalists will pan on contorted faces of traumatized victims. Reports zero in on the gap [...]
Are killer-typhoons like Yolanda/ Haiyan, unburied corpses to traumatized victims screaming to get out, the new “normal?”
Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada went viral with his bid to apologize and compensate for the deaths of six Hong Kong tourists in a botched bus hijack rescue in August 2010. This is “buffoonery,” snapped Philip Bowring, who writes for South China Morning Post to International Herald Tribune. This journalist has tracked Asia for 39 years [...]
The lady wept. “It is not about us. We’ll be out of here in two or three decades. But lack of an agreement on climate change was “condemning future generations before they’re even born. ‘If it were inevitable, then so be it,” she added… But we have a choice, to change the future we are going to give our children.”
Can an Ombudsman who has a backbone instead of a wishbone make a difference? Read last week’s Court of Appeals decision that upheld Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales’ order to fire 10 Navy men. They were implicated in the 1995 death of Ensign Philip Pestaño who refused to load hot timber and drugs. Associate Justice Jose [...]
Ang Pasko ay sumapit, mall megaphones blare, Wait. Isn’t that the pirated version of the winning carol at the 1933 Cebu Christmas contest? Christmas is still 43 days away. Most homes haven’t dusted off star lanterns or Nativity belens. But a different calendar kicks in here early September. Indigents decamp overnight on cardboard mats along [...]
