Ang galing ng timing ni Gloria Arroyo.
Kaya ayan, habang nakikipag-bolahan siya doon sa Amerika kay George Bush at kung sino pang grupong mabobola niya, ang headlines sa buong mundo ay ang paglubog ng MV Princess of Stars na sobra 800 katao ang sakay.
(The following article appeared in the Philippine Star last week where former foreign secretary Roberto R. Romulo writes a regular column.)
by Roberto R. Romulo
From 1989 to 1995, I was in government service as Ambassador and Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Having worked in a multinational corporation for 25 years in various management positions, I presumed that management techniques tried and proven effective in business organizations could be equally applicable in the government bureaucracy. I am writing on this topic, using my experience in the DFA, in the spirit of constructive criticism.
Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has an advice to people who complain that they have no time to read: Serve jail time.
Six years in prison on trumped -up charges of corruption and sodomy has not diminished Anwar’s wit and sense of humor. Speaking at a forum in Makati organized by De la Salle University College of Business and Economics, Ramon V del Rosario Sr. Graduate School of Business, and Asian Institute of Democracy, Anwar said while in solitary confinement from 1998 to 2004, he was able to read the entire collection of the works of Shakespeare not once but “four-and-a-half” times.
Tracing the roots of terrorism, Pakistan officials say the United States planted the seeds of what are now the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
“You reap what you sow,” Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, director-general of the Inter-Services Public Relations, said in a recent briefing with Filipino journalists at the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi.
In assessing the global war on terrorism led by the United States with Pakistan as one of its key allies, Abbas said one has to go back to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Former President Joseph Estrada hosted a dinner for Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his wife, Datin Seri Wan Azizah, and former President Cory Aquino Friday.
Following is the account of Estrada spokesperson Margaux Salcedo:
Poor Hillary Clinton. As America basks in the euphoria of having a first black presidential candidate, everybody wants her to disappear from the political landscape.
Actually American political commentators had been wanting her to quit months ago prompting her to tactlessly recall the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Last May 23 , Hillary defended her staying in the race despite Obama overcoming her earlier lead by recalling that her husband, Bill, did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June. She said she didn’t understand all those Clinton-quit-call and reminded everybody: “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”
Hillary Clinton open to being Obama’s vice president
Chicago- Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House, The Associated Press reported based on its tally of delegates.
Obama arranged a victory celebration at the site of this summer’s Republican National Convention — an in-your-face gesture to Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who would be his opponent in the race to become the nation’s 44th president.
I was reading an analysis “The Philippines:Counter-insurgency vs Counter-terrorism in Mindanao” when news of an explosion in Zamboanga City came in.
Two persons were confirmed dead while 23 others were injured. Investigators were looking at the possibility that Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants were involved in the attack.
The analysis I’m reading was precisely warning about this situation. It said that the Philippines is mixing up counter-insurgency with counter-terrorism “with dangerous implications for conflict in the region”.
In Lahore, we had the elite Punjab police (equivalent to our Special Action Force) as escorts. That was most thrilling.
Karachi -Nang papunta pa lamang kami sa Pakistan noong isang linggo, marami akong hindi magandang imahen sa bansang ito sa South Asia.
Nandyan na ang nakadikit na imahen ng terorismo. Katabi kasi sila ng Afghanistan kung saan nababasa natin na doon nagtatago si Osama bin Ladin ng Al Qaeda at mga Taliban. Akala natin ganoon rin sa Pakistan.