http://blogs.inquirer.net/current Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:24:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Official photo and caption: STANDING OVATION FOR PGMA -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo receives a standing ovation at the reception of the Philippine-US Friendship Caucus at the Veterans Committee Hearing Room, Cannon House Office Building at the US Capitol Complex on Independence Avenue, Washington D.C. this morning (Wednesday, Washington time). Directly behind ... http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/06/27/5-is-to-1/ There's something about the slap-dash nature of the Palace propaganda corps that bugs me. Take the caption for this official photo: Official caption: US-RP AGRI ACCORD--Washington DC.--President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo watches approvingly as Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap shakes hands with US Agriculture Secretary Edward Schaefer after the two signed a Framework of ... http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/06/26/bringing-home-the-genetically-modified-bacon/ it may be useful, at this point, to take a look at this report: "14 Food Subsidies in the Philippines: Preliminary Results", by Marito Garcia. See: ppa88ch14.pdf" t Share This http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/06/18/for-your-consideration-lessons-learned-from-past-food-subsidies/ Yesterday's headline screamed, Soaring rice prices grip Mindanao folk: Staple sold at P45-P51 per kilo. This is only the latest problem in a cluster of problems that periodically drift into the headlines and then out again. Blogger Radioactive Adobo recently recounted, and asked: Last weekend, I was in Robinson's Supermarket ... http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/06/03/is-mindanao-hitting-the-fan/ O diba? Share This http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/05/19/the-clever-filipino/ Yesterday and today's Inquirer editorials have focused on the possible breakdown of talks between our government and the MILF in Mindanao, and the possibility that Malaysia, a partner in the peace talks, might pull out. My column for today looks at what Malaysia's interest in the peace process is. A very ... http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/05/08/some-readings-on-mindanao/ Foreign Policy unveils its list of The Top 100 Public Intellectuals (based on certain criteria) and asks readers to vote for their own top 5 (you can also write-in a candidate). I voted for: Umberto Eco (I first encountered him when I was 14 and picked up a copy of "The Name ... http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/04/28/who-influences-your-thinking/ John Nery and I have a shared, pre-PDI heritage, and that's having been onetime workers in Today Newspaper. But John was involved in the news-gathering side of it. For my part, I was mentored by Teddyboy Locsin (our Publisher) in opinion writing -in the grand manner of his father, Teodoro ... http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/04/24/thundering-and-shrilling-or-when-columnists-collide/ We're back! Who's glad? Share This http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2008/04/22/test/ if you were in their shoes? Faithful reader Abbygail asks a provocative question: ... if you will be tapped by the govt. to serve in teves’ shoes, what will you do to change the rut we’re in? help the people w/ your ideas. we cannot be blaming each other forever and just ... http://blogs.inquirer.net/current/2007/12/17/what-would-you-do/