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By Randy David
There’s probably not a single country left in the world today where one would not find Filipinos. In any war that breaks out anywhere, any major disaster that happens on land or at sea, in every hijacking of a cargo boat, or any terrorist attack in a crowded public place in any big city—chances are one of the victims could be a Filipino worker. This has made the everyday outlook of the average Filipino global. In the short span of 40 years, we have, by necessity, become interested in what is happening in the rest of the world because of the broad dispersal of our overseas workers.
Posted: January 20th, 2013 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
We convey our only New Year’s wish to President Aquino: Slow down on politicking and get real in running the economy.
Posted: December 30th, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
WE WOULD like to respond to the latest round of lies that Rigoberto Tiglao peddled in his column, “Akbayan’s OFW parasite and con man” (Inquirer, 11/22/12). First and foremost, we are not at all surprised with how low Tiglao sank in slandering Jose Valencia, president of Kasapi Hellas, an OFW organization in Greece. The slanderous remarks about Valencia and Akbayan were prompted by the concerted, successful effort of migrants, led by Valencia, to remove Tiglao from office due to his shoddy performance as Philippine ambassador to Greece.
Posted: December 10th, 2012 in Inquirer Opinion,Letters to the Editor | Read More »
By Rigoberto Tiglao
When President Aquino needs to hit his enemies, and make it appear as if the “masses” are doing it, he calls on his fake party-list Akbayan. Aping its boss, when Akbayan needs to badmouth its critics, it calls on its letter-to-the-editor-writing trolls, and in my case recently, on a bogus OFW leader in Greece, one Jose Valencia.
Posted: November 21st, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Walden Bello
The Philippines is one of the great labor exporters of the world. Some 10 per cent of its total population and 22 per cent its working age population are now migrant workers in other countries. With remittances totaling some $20 billion a year, the Philippines places fourth as a recipient of remittances, after China, India, and Mexico.
Posted: May 8th, 2012 in Columns,Viewpoints | Read More »
By Hannah Inserto
Intrigues, secrets, codes and arcane traditions all form the regalia of a secret society. These exist in varying modes, from universities to neighborhood pubs across continents and cultures. In the past two months I have become an initiate of one such group.
Posted: April 28th, 2012 in Columns,Editor's Pick,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Kunio Senga and Emmanuel de Dios
VIEWED HISTORICALLY, the recent performance of the Philippine economy has actually been reassuring: Favorable trends include a declining public debt and fiscal deficit, recurring current account surpluses, low inflation, a healthy banking sector, and recent and forthcoming credit rating upgrades. Throughout the latest global economic shocks, remittances from oversees Filipino workers and revenues from the [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2012 in Columnists,Columns,Editor's Pick,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Walden Bello
If any city has become emblematic of Syria’s version of the “Arab Spring,” it is Homs. This city, an opposition stronghold, was subjected to a 26-day siege by the Syrian Army in February. The estimates of how many people perished vary, with the city’s Chief of Police admitting to some 3,000 dead and the western press reporting twice or more that number.
Posted: March 24th, 2012 in Columns,Viewpoints | Read More »
By Robert Lance V. Arafol
Terminal 1 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport may be deemed the world’s worst airport, but in my eyes, or perhaps to any other son, daughter, wife, husband or relative of an overseas Filipino worker, it is the world’s best.
Posted: March 3rd, 2012 in Columns,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
The execution by lethal injection of the 35-year-old Filipino man in China last Dec. 8 should serve as a dire warning to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who, knowingly or unknowingly, act as “drug mules” for drug syndicates. After all, that was the fourth of such executions in China this year, which involved Filipinos. Last February, three other OFWs were executed for the same crime. The message should now be clear: should you get caught, there really isn’t much the Philippine government can do to get you off the death row, save what everybody else can do, which is pray.
Posted: December 10th, 2011 in Editor's Pick,Editorial,Featured Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
Vice President Jejomar Binay would now be in Beijing to personally carry a letter of President Aquino to Chinese President Hu Jintao appealing for the commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment of a Filipino convicted for drug trafficking. Except that Beijing firmly put its foot down, saying it wasn’t going to accommodate the Vice President or the Philippine request.
Posted: December 4th, 2011 in Editor's Pick,Editorial,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
By Andrew G. Gahol
After an almost two-month stay in Los Angeles, I found myself in LAX awaiting my flight back home to the Philippines. My Mom and Dad, who sat beside me, looked awfully crestfallen. The prospect of “abandoning” my parents in a foreign land, more than 2,000 miles away from family and friends, was heartbreaking. I knew [...]
Posted: October 28th, 2011 in Columnists,Columns,Featured Headline,Inquirer Opinion | Read More »
