The visit of Ursula von der Leyen to Manila

The visit of Ursula von der Leyen to Manila

The two-day visit was the first by a president of the European Commission. The background: On Dec. 14, 2022, at the EU-ASEAN Commemorative Summit in Brussels, Bongbong Marcos invited Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, to come to Manila to...
A tourism slogan for Islas Ladrones

A tourism slogan for Islas Ladrones

Live Love Lebanon is a private NGO based in that country that is part of the United Nations Global Compact. The UNGC is a non-binding pact that aims to get businesses and firms worldwide to practice sustainable and socially responsible policies. Based in Beirut, Live...
The mistreatments Leila de Lima got

The mistreatments Leila de Lima got

It took a meeting of parliamentarians in far-away St. Petersburg, Russia on Oct. 18, 2017, to help open the gates of world consciousness on Leila de Lima’s incarceration. That meeting was of the governing council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.What exactly is the...
The lunacy that is ROTC

The lunacy that is ROTC

At the rate senators are mouthing absurdities, rationalizing the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) or the mandatory physical military training in college has become an act of sheer idiocy.The justification always given – to instill love of country...
Can Marcos Sr.’s remains still be exhumed?

Can Marcos Sr.’s remains still be exhumed?

On October 22, 1940, the Supreme Court acquitted Ferdinand Marcos, his father Mariano, his father’s brother in-law Quirino Lizardo, and Mariano’s brother Pio from the charge of murdering Julio Nalundasan.The facts of the case are well known: Nalundasan was murdered by...