Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Editorial
MORE than a week after the August 23 hostage-taking incident in the capital city of Manila, the Philippine National Police (PNP) continues to take a beating for its obvious mishandling of the situation, resulting in the unnecessary and avoidable deaths of eight tourists from Hong Kong. This week, the Philippine government agreed to let experts from the former Crown Colony conduct a "parallel investigation" of what happened that rainy day, allowing the Chinese cops to also take a look at the evid...
- PN at 49
- Published: August 27, 2010 | Author: | Unrated
VERY quietly, Philippine News celebrated its 49th year last week. Near its North California headquarters, a well attended dinner was held and some surprising announcements were made. While our 49th year can be considered auspicious, it is really our 50th anniversary next year that we are looking forward to. It will be a milestone for us and a mega event is planned. But turning 49 is no mean feat either. Not very many companies survive for this length of time, and fewer still are the media organi...
IT is hard to imagine what life must be like for the millions of Pakistanis who live in that part of their country that has been devastated by killer floods of the last couple of weeks. Latest reports say that 20 percent of the Pakistan is under water, and the national government has been unable to come to the rescue of those in the most precarious situations. To better place it in perspective, Pakistan is roughly the same size as the state of Texas. Can we perceive of one-fifth of the Lone Star...
THE plight of Muslims in the U.S. is something Filipino Americans should understand just a little bit more than the typical American. Best estimates place at seven million the total number of Muslims in the U.S. Coincidentally, the number of Filipinos and Filipino Americans is roughly the same. Among the seven million Muslims living here, it's safe to say that a small percentage would be comprised of Filipinos or FilAms. In our homeland, Muslims comprise a small minority of the predominantly Chr...
IT is with a great sense of relief that we received the news from President Barack Obama himself this week. At long last, the war in Iraq that has cost so many American and Iraqi lives – along with our allies -- is drawing to a close. It goes without saying that among our casualties were a number of Filipino American soldiers. By the end of this month, all U.S. combat troops will be withdrawn, "as promised and on schedule," according to our president. It was his campaign promise made two y...
IF you have a neighbor with serious mental problems and he threatens you with unspecified bodily harm, what do you do? The correct answer would be – nothing. He is, after all, insane and does not know what he is doing. But if that same neighbor were to show you that he has an arsenal that includes grenades, bazookas and assault rifles and says he will kill you, then what do you do? In this case, doing nothing is not an option. In the real world, this is precisely what North Korea is doing....
BASED on his inaugural speech last month, we know what to expect when President Benigno Aquino III delivers his first State of the Nation Address next week – total honesty. We still recall that inaugural speech, which some dismissed as too simplistic or even too folksy in both content and delivery. But PNoy, as he likes to call himself, was only being true to himself. For the dozen odd years that he served as congressman and senator, the president was never about bluster and brimstone. He ...
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