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United Nations Charter Day
IN recognition of the United Nations Charter’s importance in maintaining peace and security, in taking collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to peace worldwide, United Nations Charter Day is observed on June 26 of each year.
Favors for a ‘favor’
GENERALS by the dozen breezed through the Commission on Appointments in a matter of minutes and their only expression of appreciation was a low "Thank you." But about Cabinet nominees we hear mostly sad stories.
UN nuclear inspectors are back in North Korea
THE past two months delay in the six-party talks aimed at the denuclearization of North Korea, reads like a bad mystery novel if it weren’t so dangerously significant to this part of the world. The six nations involved, are, besides North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Back in February, North Korea agreed to begin dismantling its nuclear program in April in return for economic aid and political considerations, and the return of its funds frozen in a Macao bank. The fly in the ointment, which caused North Korea to refuse to deal since 2005 was the US accusation of money laundering and counterfeiting of North Korean funds, amounting to million in the Banco Delta Asia in Macao which came to light in a US smuggling investigation. The funds were frozen. North Korea promptly dug in its heels (and test-fired one missile in the interim) and announced it wouldn’t deal on the nuclear issue till it got its money back.
Bring down the walls
LAST Sunday, June 24, I was invited to address the Publishers Association of the Philippines (PAPI) on "Press Freedom, Ethics and Libel."
Analysis
BANGKOK (DPA) – Ten years ago, Thailand was forced to float its baht currency and appeal to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout, triggering an economic crisis that spread tsunami-like to the economies of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Korea.
Analysis
TAMPA, Florida – He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.
The Golden Rule
Matthew 7:6, 12-14
Encouraging
WRITING about history is like walking on eggs, ruffling sensitive feathers and stepping on calloused toes. Perhaps other ex-colonies like the Philippines are going through the same process of de-mystification, of going beyond ephemeral to delve into and unravel what was knotted and manipulated by former colonial chroniclers. That is why Philippine history is, to me, endless fascination; learning it is like waking up from a deep coma. I deeply appreciate comments and animadversions from readers who have been reassured and/or piqued by my forages into the obscure and unknown.
Cajoling Pyongyang
AFTER alternately cajoling and threatening North Korea for so long to give up its nuclear weapons program, you would think the concerned nations led by the United States would already be exhausted to pursue it.
Defining command responsibility
IT seemed orchestrated – but it’s not – that the revelation of a third unnamed general that extra-judicial killing was openly discussed in a military conference coincided with Chief Justice Reynato Puno’s proposal for a "summit" on the same topic with the aim of defining the scope of command responsibility.
Season of fireworks
ONCE upon a time a weather-beaten sign hanging over a bridge from a technical university exhorted young men to "look up" and dream big – look at the stars in the sky and not at the mud at their feet or the squalor of Sta. Cruz, Manila.
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