The recent passing of Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz, popularly known as O.D., saddens thousands of colleagues, scholars, and former students he had worked with in his long and productive career as one of the best minds the Philippine academia has produced.
As the College of Cardinals at the Vatican convenes for a secret vetting process to select retired Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, heavy betting is going on in the world outside. Gamblers betting on who the next pope will be? It seems outrageous, but you better believe it—and it’s not even in Las Vegas.
It was not a happy holiday season in Paradise. Even the heavens wept, remarked one observer on the rain that day as news that Hawaii’s senior US senator and beloved “godfather” had died swept the state one week before Christmas.
It has been 71 years since the “day of infamy” at Pearl Harbor that marked the beginning of an agonizing four years in the Pacific known as World War II.
Up until election day in the United States on Nov. 6, it seemed as though Barack Obama would be a one-term president.
Hawaii must be the most “saintly” of all states in America.
People in America today live in the shadow of fear and violence. With an average of 20 mass killings a year since the late 1970s, according to criminology professor James Alan Fox, this country has got to be the most violent in the world. Is this the price of being the world’s most powerful nation?
In her lifetime, Dr. Perla Santos Ocampo, or “PDO” as she was popularly called, was an icon in all possible dimensions that the term could mean.
The current impeachment trial of Philippine Chief Justice Renato Corona reminds us of the only other impeachment case so far of a sitting US Supreme Court Associate Justice—that of Samuel Chase in 1805. Even Americans today are not aware of this case, indicative of how an event like this has seldom happened in their political and judicial history.
HONOLULU—Part of the reason Olongapo was included in the Philippine itinerary of the recent trade mission from Hawaii was that the city has become an outstanding model of local development after its previous long-standing image as a “City of Sin.” The trade mission was looking for Philippine communities outside Metro Manila interested in business partnerships [...]
A few days ago, a Filipino Trade Mission from Hawaii composed of 29 delegates, including Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle, was in Baguio as part of a biennial program to promote better trade relations between Hawaii and the Philippines. In addition to Hawaii, the other areas covered by the Mission’s itinerary were Manila, Cebu, Subic and Clark.
MIAMI, FLORIDA—9/11 has come and gone, but the nagging question as to whether it could have been prevented will remain for a long time yet. Ten years after the fact, new information has been unearthed to the effect that FBI authorities found “troubling ties” between the hijackers and certain residents in an upscale gated community [...]
