19 December 2008 - 14:24 It’s such a merry, merry Christmas in the Senate even if the Bolante hearings will continue during the Christmas break.
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Amalia Lopez is a freelancer whose sole task is to gather tidbits of news and chitchats in the august halls of both the House and the Senate. She frequents the House and Senate cafeterias, the corridors, and even the plenary hall to get the latest news and the juiciest morsels of gossips happening on the floor and inside the offices of Congressional members.
13 December 2008 - 07:44 Manny Pacquiao is today’s Golden Boy for the media, simply living up to his name: Tagalog word “pakyaw” literally means to “take everything.”
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Bringing with him 27 years of experience in advertising, media, and research from various respected advertising agencies, Resti is currently the President of MediaTrade Exchange, Inc. He is founder and co-founder of the Radio Research Council and TV Research Council, respectively, and his name is listed in the International Who’s Who of Professionals.
20 August 2008 - 11:45 Since a lot of things broke, as they say, when the energy cost rose, it is now time to fix what has been broken. It is now time to evolve again into something new from something old which has served its time and purpose. ...read full article
Herbie is a seasoned marketing and business management professional. He worked in the international marketing arena for Pepsico International, and stands as Professor in marketing and business enterprise development at De La Salle College of Saint Benilde. He is also the President of Market Bridges Phils. Inc.
30 December 2008 - 18:04 Liberalism or whatever political philosophy that promotes individual liberty and responsibility is the best antidote to authoritarianism and its silent and creeping ally, democratism.
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Nonoy is President of Minimal Government Thinkers, Inc., a think tank that advocates small government, small taxes, free market, and more personal responsibility. He belongs to a network of free-market oriented think tanks and institutes in Asia and other parts of the world.
08 December 2008 - 11:41 Filipinos really have overly extended patience that even when public officials lie while testifying, rage is absent, anger is nowhere to be found, and liars get to paint the town red in total abandon.
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Malou Tiquia is Founder and General Manager of PUBLiCUS Co. Ltd., the Philippines's first and only registered professional lobbying firm. She is a noted political management expert in the Philippines and Asia, having been the first Filipino to graduate from George Washington University - considered as the political "West Point" of the United States.
November 6, 2007 - 23:22 The formal institutionalization of the remedy of the writ of amparo in the Philippine legal system is, indeed, a welcome development, highlighting the expressed value accorded the protection of a person’s constitutional rights. ...read full article
Atty. Fortunato Balasbas is the Legal Counsel of PUBLiCUS Co., Ltd. He is a bar topnotcher and is into appellate practice. He is one of the few individuals to have served and gained experience in the three (3) branches of the Philippine Government. He is a Senior Partner at Gancayco Law.
26 November 2008 - 14:37 We need the kinds of leaders who will boldly set the tone of re-imagining a different future and a different way of engaging people and the system.
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Neric Acosta was congressman from 1998-2007 and principal author of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. He served as secretary-general of the Liberal Party and is current secretary-general of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii where he was an East-West Center doctorate fellow. He teaches at the Ateneo School of Government and Department of Political Science. In 2004 he was named World Fellow of Yale University.
22 December 2008 - 11:54 While there are practical macroeconomic solutions to the current credit crisis, Americans need to start spending within their means or any recovery will be artificial and fleeting.
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Marvin Bionat is the creator of philippineupdate.com, a news and views site that has served as a virtual platform that promotes various advocacies, including the political empowerment of overseas Filipinos and accountability in government. He wrote the National Bookstore bestseller How to Win (or Lose) in Philippine Elections (Anvil Publishing, 1998) and is now based in the U.S. working as an editor.
November 19, 2007 - 05:07 PUBLiCUS Founder/General Manager has pushed the argument further by creating a portal where “citizen input is not just a matter of convenience anymore but has become essential for how democracies work.” ...read full article
Kenneth Liotongco is the Publisher of The LOBBYiST. He is an entrepreneur and owns several companies on computer hardware, web design and technology, food, among others.
22 September 2008 - 09:26 In their own ways, these are our reminders that democracy – or attempts at it – makes for a rocky, circuitous process, and sometimes, a very painful one. ...read full article
03 December 2008 - 17:00 The recent move by the majority party to have charter change is a gross disregard for our nation’s problems.
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Jessy A. Ang, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist with a private practice since 1982.
Dr. Ang obtained his medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas, with high honors. He completed his residency at the University of Washington, where he became an instructor. Dr. Ang is a fellow of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He was Chairman, Dept. of Psychiatry, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tacoma. Presently, Dr. Ang is a leading consulting speaker for the Franciscan Hospitals and various pharmaceutical companies.
04 December 2008 - 12:35 In the thick of it all is a young governor and his battery of revolutionary initiatives that virtually redefined how local government is run this side of the country.
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Ma. Gladys Cruz-Sta. Rita, MPA, CSEE author of Running A Bureaucracy: A Guidebook for Local Government Unit Administrators, Other Public Managers, and Elected Officials was Bulacan's provincial administrators for 17 years before her retirement from government service this year. The book is a Centennial Publication of the University of the Philippines-National College of Public Administration and Governance. She is currently consultant to the USAID projects in the Philippines through the Health Policy Development Program of the UPecon Foundation. For more info about the book, visit http://www.lguadministrators.com/.
