Deretsahan
ni Horacio Paredes
Nasa Royal Cliff Beach Resort sa Pattaya, Thailand ang mga lider ng ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) nang nakapasok ng mga naka-pulang demonstrador na pinabibitiw ang kasalukuyang Prime Minister ng Thailand. Dahil sa pangamba na kung ano ang maaaring mangyari sa mga bisita ng bansa, kinuha ang lahat ng mga helicopter […]
“Any other ASEAN government would have successfully barricaded those roads and successfully kept out demonstrators, even if they had to break a few heads in the process.”
by Ducky Paredes
The statement of Sahas Bunditkul, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand at the Closing Ceremony of the 41st ASEAN Ministers’ Meeting which was the occasion […]
Deretsahan
ni Horacio Paredes
Binanatan ang Santo Papa Benedict XVI ng The Lancet, isa sa pinakapinaniniwalaan na medical journal sa mundo. Ayon sa scientific magazine dapat na bawiin ng Papa ang mga maling sinasabi nito tungkol sa condom. Ang Papa raw ay binabliktad ang katotohanan upang itulak ang doktrina ng Simbahang Katoliko.
Ayon sa The Lancet: ““When any […]
“(I)t is time that we have a president who does not pander to the popular and what pleases the people but who will do what needs to be done to right the wrong path that decades of populist politics has taken us.”
by Ducky Paredes
Those who read the public pulse are doing us all a great […]
“Why would this be the fault of government when it is the hostage-takers who would be doing any beheading and not anyone in government?”
by Ducky Paredes
In any hostage situation, there should be only one person talking to the hostage-taker. The government is doing the right thing by allowing the governor of Sulu be the main […]
Deretsahan
ni Horacio Paredes
Mabuti naman — at sana’y tapos na nga — ang mga kaso tungkol sa Maysilo Estate na sakop ang apat na lungsod – Caloocan, Malabon, Valenzuela at Quezon City. Dinesisyunan na ng Korte Suprema ang kasong tumagal na nang 30 taon na dinidinig ng iba’t-ibang pabalik-balik na mga korte – CFI, Court of […]
“Incandescent lighting generates emissions equal to 70% of those from all the world’s passenger vehicles. Also, 90% of the energy consumed by each bulb generates heat, which then adds to air-conditioning costs.”
by Ducky Paredes
In one thing – a good one — we actually lead many countries in the world. During the Energy Summit […]
“By being timid, we gave the signal to our neighbors with conflicting claims that we are not a force to reckon with.”
by Ducky Paredes
Our whole approach to the writing of the baselines law that was needed for the United Nations Commission on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) […]
“(T)he ADB economist is right to point out that many of recipient families ‘would be poor or were poor without remittances.’”
by Ducky Paredes
According to Kelly Bird, a senior economist of he Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds remitted by Filipinos working abroad have kept at least four million Filipinos out of poverty as of 2006.
Bird described […]
Deretsahan
ni Horacio Paredes
Sumulat sa atin si Renee D. Laguna, isang OFW na nasa Saudi. Ito ang kaniyang liham: “Ito na ang tunay na napakapait na resulta na karamihan sa ating mga Pilipino ay walang paki-alam sa pagpapatakbo ng ating mga leader sa ating bayan.
“Napakarami kasi sa ating mga kababayan na kapag hindi pa nagugutom ang […]
