Brace Yourselves to Embrace ?OFW Phenomenon?
By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano Institute for Migration and Development Issues MAKATI CITY ? What do we want to do with international migration? That question posed by outgoing Labor secretary Patricia…
Proposed Budget Allots Twice More for Debt Interest Payments
MANILA -- Despite the president?s claims that education is a priority of her administration, the 2006 proposed budget, which is still being deliberated at the bicameral committee, allocates more than…
GMA?s Cha-cha: On Track ? to the Death Chamber
The problem with GMA?s Charter change agenda is that it cannot prove that a more liberalized, restrictions-less, 100%-tariff free and 100% foreign-owned and dominated economy would usher in more progress…
The Anatomy of Timor Leste’s Crisis: Growing Pains or a Question of Justice?
By Tony M. Manaytay Initiative for International Dialogue PRESIDENT Xanana Gusmao may have prophesied when he told fellow East Timorese four years ago that ?raising our flag will not mean…
My Doraemon
DAVAO CITY -- For quite sometime now, I have been watching the cartoon series Doraemon. Doraemon is a ?gadget cat? robot from the future, about a hundred years away from…