By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Dead tired
Day: July 9, 2016
Unhampered
By CARLO MANALANSAN
Workers welcome new labor officials, ask penalties for erring employers
“President Duterte’s order is clear, and we are going to implement that [ending contractualization] with Usec Joel Maglunsod.”- Labor Sec. Sylvester Bello III
Political prisoner released ‘provisionally’ after 5 years
She could not accept that she was jailed for five years for a crime she did not commit.
Progressive and conservative
It’s not so much his liberal use of profanity that separates Rodrigo R. Duterte from his predecessors, but the residency in his person of both progressive and conservative tendencies. No other Philippine president can be so described. Benigno S. C. Aquino III, for all his lip service to change, was a closet conservative whose main…
Self-restraint must prevail over South China Sea row
Both by its extensive propaganda blitz and by conducting military drills in the Paracels, China seeks to impress upon the world its resolve to assert sovereignty over almost all of the South China Sea – no matter how the UN Permanent Court of Arbitration will decide: to uphold or negate such a claim. The decision…