We beg to differ.
Reported on the ChinaPost.com.tw today: Confirmation that the balding, bespectacled president was dating again came after he said last year that the fizz had gone out of his love-life, describing it as going from “Coke regular†to “Coke zero.†Aquino said then that he was resigned to the idea of staying single until his term…
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Philippine President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III has confirmed Wednesday (the 1st February) that he is dating television host Grace Lee. This followed what just a few days earlier were reported “rumours†of a date Lee went on with the President which she “clarified” on the television news show Balitanghali… “Wala pa akong nirerelease na (I…
According to presidential adviser on political affairs Ronald Llamas, he is sorry for being an enthusiastic patron of pirated (illegally copied and distributed) DVDs because he is “no longer a regular guyâ€. I wonder then what this says about the typical regular Filipino guy? I have many times in the past asserted that Filipino government…
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According to Chay Hofileña, Director of “citizen journalism” for “social news network†site Rappler.com journalists are “neither lawyers nor judges” and are, from the depths of their DNA she claims, hardwired to “look for patterns, inconsistencies and lies, and to point those out”. This, it seems, forms the kernel around which she launches into a…
Given the interesting circumstances surrounding Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona’s very controversial impeachment trial, it is only normal that countless philosophical debates have been raised regarding this issue; the credibility of the courts, the efficacy of the Constitution, the morality of the defense and the prosecution, President Noynoy Aquino’s (PNoy’s) sincerity, and of course,…
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The week ahead is going to be an interesting one for the multitude of Filipino sports fans watching what is turning out to be the Super Bowl event of Philippine television. The Senate trial of the impeachment case against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona was shaped over the weekend by several developments that futher…
Nearly two weeks after a massive sit-down protest sought and failed to shut down Baguio’s largest mall, things in the mountaintop city have gone almost nowhere, and the people concerned remain as polarized as ever. Both sides of the issue of mall expansion have emphasized that their own views are right, and that the opposite…
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While the controversial Corona impeachment trial went on with little to no observable progress, the Department of Education had come up with a controversy of its own; albeit inconspicuous to Filipinos whose attentions are glued to PNoy’s holy crusade to allegedly bring Arroyo and her lackeys to justice. Manila Bulletin reported the following last January…