DAVAO — Former UP Professor Kim Gargar was released from Baganga Town Jail, Davao Oriental after his family and friends posted bail last Friday (August 1). Gargar was detained for almost a year. He was arrested by elements of the 67th Infantry Battalion in the mountainous area of Cateel in this province while he was…
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Among the supposed accomplishments he crowed about were the decline in the crime rate and the improved peace and order situation — claims that are at least as outlandish as the allegation that economic growth and the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) have benefitted the poor. On the…
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Now on its 26th day, the Israeli war against the Hamas militants in Gaza — the third since Hamas won the 2006 elections in that densely-populated strip of Palestinian territory along the Mediterranean Sea coast — has gravely affected the civilian population, pushing them…
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The President delivers his State of the Nation address (SONA) today besieged from all sides. Benigno S. Aquino III (BSA) is facing the worst political crisis in his career — and it appears, from the way he is scrambling to do damage control, he didn’t even see it coming.…