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The unpopular president of Taiwan (approval ratings below 20 percent) has found a populist cause to die for—or, rather, to unleash baseball bat-wielding mobs for. The shooting of a 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard last May 9, in waters the Philippines claims as its own but which Taiwan describes as within “overlapping” exclusive economic zones, has provided Ma Ying-jeou with an excuse to break his reputation for indecisive leadership, and to rally the Taiwanese under a nationalist cause not involving mainland China.
Posted: May 19th, 2013 in Editor's Pick,Editorial | Read More »
The steel-hulled Chinese boat that ran aground on Tubbataha Reef on April 8 is still there—and the longer it stays stuck, the more the important questions gain traction.
Posted: April 17th, 2013 in Editor's Pick,Editorial,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Cielito F. Habito
I often hear the lament that we Filipinos are not as mindful as our neighbors appear to be of the impending closer integration of the Southeast Asian economies into the Asean Economic Community (AEC), to culminate less than two years from now. I have heard none of our candidates for national office in the coming elections address the topic, for example, in the way it figures in public discussions within our neighboring countries. And yet, this move of the 10 nations that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) promises to have profound implications within and across their respective economies.
Posted: April 8th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Noralyn Mustafa
At the height of the running gunbattle between the Malaysian forces and the so-called “Royal Army” (which in a few days became the “Royal Security Forces,” but which Malaysia labeled simply as “the intruders”), there was one, among the dispatches we received from our ground sources, that I thought struck at the very core of the senselessness of it all. “Both sides are lying, their statements in their press conferences are mostly lies,” the messenger sounded quite exasperated. He was referring to Jamalul Kiram III and his spokespersons, and to the Malaysian officials.
Posted: March 31st, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Amando Doronila
Thirty-five followers of the sultan of Sulu, who were intercepted by the Philippine Navy in the Sulu Sea on Wednesday while fleeing the search and exterminate mopping-up operations of Malaysian security forces in Sabah, have fallen into the arms of Philippine authorities poised to charge them with criminal offenses.
Posted: March 18th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Conrado de Quiros
Well, it was the first time a pope had resigned in more than 600 years. So it was only fitting that it would also be the first time a pope would come from other than Europe in more than 1,300 years.
Posted: March 17th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas S. J.
The last thing I expected from the conclave was a Jesuit Pope. But that is what the 115 cardinals gave us. I did not even know that there was a Jesuit among the 115 gathered in the Vatican. I first heard that there was at least one during a dinner conversation the Sunday before with a French Jesuit, who told me about the Jesuit cardinal of Buenos Aires. But I promptly forgot about him. Last Tuesday I went to bed not expecting that I would be greeted with the jaw-breaking news that a Jesuit had been elected pope for the first time in the history of the Church.
Posted: March 17th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Noralyn Mustafa
Well, whoever planned this catastrophic mess that is benignly called “Sabah standoff,” if indeed it is a conspiracy, must now be laughing his diabolic head off.
Posted: March 17th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Amando Doronila
Evidence of Malaysian atrocities in Kuala Lumpur’s “search and annihilate” military operations against fleeing followers of the Sultan of Sulu continues to mount in the wake of Philippine naval interceptions of refugees from Sabah.
Posted: March 14th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Conrado de Quiros
You’d imagine it was happening in Syria or Afghanistan or some war-torn part of the world. That comes from the stories being told by Filipinos who have been horribly maltreated or whose kin have been shot to death by Malaysian security forces in Sabah. In fact that place has now become as war-torn, with all its cruelties, as those other parts of the world.
Posted: March 11th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
Judging by the mixed reactions from across the political spectrum, all this finger-pointing about the current standoff in Sabah is, in my humble opinion, counterproductive. Instead of helping solve the problem peacefully through diplomatic means, some people, in their desire to put their two cents in for reasons only they know, fail to see the forest for the trees. I think it would help if we put the whole issue in perspective. Yes, from a layman’s standpoint, I liken the incursion (or excursion as one royal family member jokingly put it) to a forcible entry made by a landlord into the property he has rented out to a tenant.
Posted: March 11th, 2013 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Amando Doronila
As 115 cardinals gather Tuesday to elect the next Pope, they will be confronted with the most profoundly asked question among 1.5 billion Catholics worldwide: Will the secret conclave elect a non-European for the first time since St. Peter founded the Church in Rome, the seat of the Roman Empire?
Posted: March 11th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
