I do not know the scientific basis for the conventional conclusion that population is a cause of poverty. I can accept that a certain level of population can aggravate poverty, but to aggravate is not to cause but rather to make worse what is already there.
Let’s hand it to the grassroots lobby and the allies of agrarian reform. That was an eye-catcher they came up with this week, describing where we are right now in a program for social justice so basic it remains the most powerful shorthand for our nation’s history.
Assaulted on all sides owing to its entanglement in the ZTE national broadband network (NBN) corruption scandal, the administration has confronted its critics with the image of an economy that is purring along, that is doing just fine except for the rise in the price of rice, for which it says it is blameless.
In an early-September 2005 column, Conrad de Quiros wrote that after criticisms about the Church receiving Pagcor funds, the then outgoing president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Bishop Fernando Capalla, said, "The principle of morality does not apply in this situation.
The uproar in the Philippines by the militant workers’ group Migrante over the 117 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who recently ran away from their employers and ended up living under a bridge in the Kandara district of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is a case of misplaced anger.
I was utterly shocked to see the photos of Filipino actress Ara Mina "hotting it up" with the ascetic ideologue Jose Maria Sison, whose writings I read while studying Asian politics at SOAS in London. I also am a keen student of Asia cinema, and I am familiar with the career of Ms Mina.
JOHN NERY - SOME JOURNALISTS are uneasy about surveys—in part because they involve numbers and in part because they are a competing source of influence. But there is no getting away from political polls; in a democracy, which depends on the consent of the governed, they are a necessity.
