President Noynoy Aquino’s speech at the commemoration of national hero Jose Rizal’s 150 birth anniversary has earned the ire of a national youth group. The group Anakbayan decried what it called ‘a desperate attempt to salvage a failing presidency’, saying it was highly insulting for the national hero to be connected to any programs a […]
A BOOMING stock market has expanded the Philippines’ billionaires list to a record 11, with the combined wealth of the 40 richest also hitting an all-time high, Forbes.com said on Thursday. Shopping mall king Henry Sy, 86, saw his assets surge 44 percent to $7.2 billion over the past year and remains the Philippines’ richest man, the website said […]
ESTIMATED value of the damage wrought by continuous rains to the agriculture sector has reached close to more than half a billion pesos, the Department of Agriculture reported on Thursday. As of Wednesday, damage incurred in Regions III, X, XI, XII and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has reached P658 million, according to consolidated reports from t […]
WASHINGTON – He lifted himself up by his bootstraps, created a good life and lived the American dream, but as Filipino reporter Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize winner recalls it, “the more I achieved, the more scared and depressed I became.” Why? Because he is an undocumented immigrant living a different kind of reality. “It mea […]
President calls them ‘bad news’ bearers WITHOUT naming them, President Benigno Aquino 3rd on Thursday said that there are two to three members of his Cabinet whom he considers his “penitence” as they often bring “bad news” instead of solutions to problems. President Aquino made the statement during his speech at the celebr […]