Wow, after three days of inaccessiblity, this blog is back. Same thing with VERA Files. Thanks for your patience.
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Wow, after three days of inaccessiblity, this blog is back. Same thing with VERA Files. Thanks for your patience.
President-elect Benigno Aquino III’s appointment of Human Rights Commissioner Leila de Lima as justice secretary is an inspired choice.
Foreign Service officers are hoping and praying that it would be the same case for the secretary of foreign affairs. Romulo has been a disaster as foreign secretary the past six years and it would be a tragedy to let him stay even for a day once Gloria Arroyo is out of Malacañang.
By the nature of their work, diplomats do not engage in protest actions. They are supposedly the epitome of tact, discretion and subtlety. But concerned about persistent talks that the incompetent foreign secretary, Alberto Romulo, would be retained, the Union of Foreign Service Officers headed by Vicky Bataclan yesterday came out with an open letter to the president-elect telling him of their sentiments about Romulo.
by Luz Rimban VERA Files President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s family expects the Department of Agrarian Reform to approve within the next seven days or before…
Two Filipino students are among the six finalists in the essay writing division organized by Novartis and Malaria No More.
Now those two Filipino students, Jennel Cheng of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and Maria Masa of the University of the Philippines ,need your vote.
Please click to http://worldbriefing.org/vote/ and cast your vote for them. Do it now because the deadline is June 25, 2010.
Participants to the contest “The World Briefing: Telling the Malaria Story Contest”, were graduate students from the United States, Argentina, Ecuador, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Venezuela, and the Philippines.
Organized by Novartis and Malaria No More, a non-governmental organization committed to ending malaria deaths in Africa, The contest aims to spread the word about the prevention and treatment of malaria, and help build the coalition to ease the global malaria burden.
I woke up this morning to find this blog suspended. Ploghost, my service provider, said there was Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS)attack. Napa-research pa tuloy…
I can imagine the stress and the emotions that were caused by the cancellation of 50 domestic and international flights last Saturday due to the breakdown an antiquated navigational equipment at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Reports said NAIA’s Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Radio Range (VOR) — a device that directs aircrafts to the runway especially when there is poor visibility – broke down which caused Cebu Pacific several of its flights. Same thing with Dragon Air and Zest Air.
Philippine Air lines diverted the landing of three of their flights at the height of heavy rains when visibility became zero.
Flights have resumed although the VOR is still being repaired. Quoting a technical assistant of Alfonso Cusi, who is now head of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, and is the one in charge of the VOR, said they borrowed the equipment at the Subic International Airport.
Atty. Melvin Matibag, the new general manager of the Manila International Airport, said the VOR is just one of the navigational equipments and airport operations can continue without it. In fact he said, Cebu Pacific had resumed flights Sunday even if the VOR is still being repaired.
(Two parts) by Carolyn O. Arguillas Mindanews and VERA Files Part I SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao—Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu will take his oath of office as the…
I first saw this moving video in Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV Facebook. It’s titled “What is that?” It has been viewed over 2 million times.
Nagkataon naman na school opening ngayon dito sa Pilipinas at nahuli itong si Mary Ann Maslog na nasangkot noon sa anomalya sa textbooks sa public schools.
Tamang-tamang paala-ala sa taumbayan ang malaking perwisyo ng kurakukutan sa textbook sa edukasyon ng mga Pilipinong mag-aaral at sa hinaharap ng bansa.
Ni-report ng VERA Files noong Biyernes na nahuli na si Maslog, na ngayon ay Mary Ann Smith sa Seattle. Bago nun, noong Miyerkoles, ni-report ng VERA Files na wanted si Mary Ann sa Amerika at dito sa Pilipinas sa dami nyang kaso ng panloloko.
by Yvonne T. Chua VERA Files An election watchdog has this piece of advice for the Commission on Elections: Don’t buy the counting machines used…