The black travel ban laid down by China is inherently retaliatory on the part of an offended government and its citizenry.  Philippines and its officialdom failed to win the hearts and minds of the Hongkong nationals or the people of China starting from how the hostage crisis has been bungled down killing eight of their [...]

The President, on the strength of Executive Order 15, grants P500 combat-duty pay to AFP military personnel actually involved in operations against the various armed enemies of the State precisely because their line of work or assignment expose them to risk in their lives.  This seems to be rationale of P-Noy, in signing EO 15 [...]

It escapes comprehension how a material of high legal value (sperm specimen) could be nowhere to be found.  Instead, the NBI and the RTC are pointing accusing fingers on one another as to who has custody of such a sample.  It could have provided the key to solve the case in a much brighter light [...]

The cry of the Philippine Medical Association must have fallen on deaf ears. No single soul seems to be listening. Consequently, scores of kidney patients waiting for kidneys from donors will have to wait. It has become a waiting game that involves life and death. What if no kidney can be made available? What if [...]

After reading the explanatory note, the next part to read in a bill is the very text itself which follows some fairly standard form and content. Thus, in the case of the main RH bill as expressed in HB 96, perhaps, the real important sections worth our attention should include, among others, those of Sections [...]

First off, let me locate my initial mooring in the discussion of the RH bill as it hugged the headlines today where Pulse Asia survey claims that 69% of the population favors the Lagman bill. Just to keep abreast with this widely-publicized result, let us take a cursory review of the explanatory note that normally [...]

Say legend has it that there is such a thing as the ‘Dr. Armand Fabella’s approach to economic policy’.  In a panel discussion held at UP Faculty Center on 27 November 2010, it is as if in one sleight of hand – all the giants in the economic world – came down from their own [...]

If only 1,600 are all that EDSA can accommodate, it means that some 3,500 buses that ply the 29-kilometer road is a case of “overload”.  In short, EDSA’S carrying capacity was filled to the gutters, matter-of-factly.  Question is most automatically why this sad “scheme and scene” is allowed to happen.  An agency ought to be [...]

Let me share my thoughts. Firstly, there is a clear case of a failed application of “regulatory governance” in the First NLEX. Why? The Government shelled out P500 million for right of way, it stands as a guarantor, it never received supposed-to-be annual concession fee paid by the operator of NLEX. PD 1112 contemplates a [...]

The word plagiarius is Latin and it means a child abductor or kidnapper.  Thus, if one snatches the work of another who gave birth to it, figuratively speaking, then he becomes a plagiarist.  In most universities or even in legal bodies, one with a reputation of dishonesty or having plagiarized is meted out with expulsion, [...]