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By ELLEN TORDESILLAS I have scratched out “Blue Jasmine”, a movie directed by Woody Allen starring Cate Blanchett, from the list of not-to-be-missed movies this year. From now on, I will not watch any Woody Allen movie in sympathy with the cause of Dylan Farrow, daughter  of American actress Mia Farrow, who came out last

  By ELLEN TORDESILLAS          THE current standoff with Hongkong is an example of the danger of ignorance, power, and pride combined. As American minister Robert Fulghum  said in his book ,All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, “Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.” Last week, the

    By HARRY L. ROQUE BLOGGERS enjoy the same protection as journalists. This was the recent ruling of the US Court of Appeals in  the case of Obsidian Finance Group v. Cox. In this case, Crystal Cox, a blogger, claimed that Obsidian finance company was guilty of tax fraud. The US District Court earlier

    By ELLEN TORDESILLAS        TWO lawmakers who are allies of President Aquino last week filed with the Office of the President a complaint against Chairperson Zenaida Ducut of the Energy Regulatory Commisssion accusing her of failure to protect the interest of the consumers when it approved  last December Meralco’s  application for a staggering

   By ELLEN TORDESILLAS IN an informal survey conducted by a civil society group working to stop human trafficking, they asked people in the streets what comes to their mind when they hear the phrase “human trafficking.” Everybody answered:“Traffic.” As in vehicular traffic. Such is the level of public awareness about human trafficking- the trade

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS SENATOR  Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr.,  one of the three senators  charged with plunder before the Ombudsman in connection with alleged anomalous use of Priority Development Assistance Fund, related  Monday an incident that took place in December 2012, a few days before the conclusion of the impeachment of ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona.

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS ONE of the memorable movies shown last year was “Alagwa: starting Jericho Rosales as the widower Robert Lim and Bugoy Cariño as the boy Brian. Directed by Ian Loreños, it’s a heartbreaking story of the young father’s search for his son who was kidnapped in a mall.. Lim (Rosales) left the son

             By ELLEN TORDESILLAS     I cannot imagine the Philippines without Kris Aquino. It would be boring. I want Kris Aquino for President. Everybody talks about the need for out-of-the box solutions to the problem of poverty that is the lot of almost a third of the country’s 99 million population.  Kris Aquino has

By FERDINANDH CABRERA and ARTHA KIRA PAREDES COTABATO CITY— All she knew was that she was on her way to Manila to train as a domestic helper abroad.

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS PRESIDENT Aquino told an impressionable bunch of students from Miriam College that he will not be putting on more pressure on his cabinet members concerned that they would suffer burn out. This is what he said last Tuesday: “The Cabinet is very hardworking, they’re very dedicated. You can’t ask anything more of

  By ELLEN TORDESILLAS AT the Christmas Party of Metro Pacific Investment Corporation last month at J.W. Marriott Hotel in Hongkong, the company’s chairman, Manuel V. Pangilinan (MVP) made special mention of Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario saying, “he will soon be rejoining us in the private sector.” MVP’s remark intrigued other guests who asked

THERE’S a compelling reason for President Aquino  to make sure that that he would be able to influence  the people’s choice  of  his successor otherwise he would  suffer the same fate that befell the  two presidents before him. His predecessor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is in jail – hospital arrest, actually- facing plunder and electoral sabotage