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Category: Commentary

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    Categories Commentary

    Malacañang shaken by Lascañas exposé

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Mar 11, 2017 10:02 AM

    However Malacanang tries to discredit SPO3 Arturo Lascañas explosive exposé about President Duterte’s direct role in the Davao Death Squad, it’s obvious that the President and his men are shaken.

    Antonio Trillanes IV, Arthur Lascanas, Davao death squad, Rodrigo Duterte

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    Categories Commentary

    The hazard of watching legislative hearings

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Mar 09, 2017 7:08 AM

    Watching legislative hearings is bad for the health. You develop superiority complex and that’s not healthy.

    Arturo Lascanas, Davao death squad

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    Will it finally be Cayetano to DFA despite Arroyo’s objection?

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Mar 06, 2017 6:27 AM

    It looks like Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano will finally be the foreign secretary come May when the one-year election ban for those who ran in the last elections would expire.

    Alan Cayetano, foreign service, Perfecto Yasay Jr.

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    Categories Commentary

    (Still) in Search of a Genuine ASEAN Community

    By Myo Thant  |  Mar 05, 2017 3:16 PM

    BANGKOK (Reporting ASEAN) – It is now possible to go by car in any weather from Yangon (the commercial capital of Myanmar and formerly known as Rangoon) to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam’s commercial capital, formerly known as Saigon) by the East-West Economic Corridor and its southern extensions. The 2,000-kilometre plus route connects the five mainland Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand, of which only the last is a founding member of ASEAN.

    asean, ASEAN2017, CLMV

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    Categories Commentary

    Culture of death under Duterte presidency

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Mar 04, 2017 2:38 AM

    “There was death on Ash Wednesday”

    I like this lead by RG Cruz of ABS-CBN in his report about the approval of the death penalty bill by the House of Representatives

    death penalty

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    Categories Commentary

    Who’s the murderer? Who’s the coddler?

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Mar 02, 2017 12:27 PM

    The ‘perya barker”act, in the words of Sen. Grace Poe, of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre at the government-organized Luneta rally last Saturday triggered responses from different personalities which make for amusing exchanges.

    Davao death squad, Lascanas, Trillanes

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    Categories ASEAN at 50 Commentary South China Sea: Waters of Contention

    ASEAN’s 50th year agenda: Beyond the South China Sea?

    By Charmaine C. Deogracias  |  Mar 02, 2017 11:39 AM

    Last week’s smooth, relatively uneventful retreat by ASEAN’s foreign ministers appears to have put the grouping’s agenda on track for its 50th year, choosing to focus beyond the South China Sea disputes and set the stage for an April leaders’ summit that will put the spotlight purposefully on ASEAN’s golden anniversary.

    ASEAN2017

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    Categories ASEAN at 50 Commentary

    Any takers for ASEAN news?

    By Johanna Son  |  Feb 26, 2017 12:19 PM

    BANGKOK, Feb 24 (Reporting ASEAN) – If ASEAN issues were a consumer product for sale, buyers wouldn’t exactly be queuing up for it – not even with the sales pitch that it is a brand with 50 years of history to fall back on this year.

    asean

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    Categories Commentary

    No such thing as ‘limpio’ in a dirty job

    By Ellen Tordesillas  |  Feb 24, 2017 2:01 PM

    In the narration of SP03 Arthur Lascañas of the “jobs” he had done as member of the Davao Death Squad, he recalled the instruction of then Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in a murder operation against the financier of a kidnapping: “Sige, limpio lang.”

    Davao death squad, Rodrigo Duterte, SPO3 Arthur Lascanas

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    The power of conscience

    By ELLEN TORDESILLAS  |  Feb 22, 2017 7:09 PM

    The turnaround of SP03 Arthur Lascañas on the murders he committed as a member of the Davao Death Squad must have stunned Malacanang, all that it can come up with was Press Secretary Martin Andanar’s preposterous allegation that Senate reporters were given $1,000 each to attend the press conference morning of Wednesday at the Senate.

    Arthur Lascanas, Davao death squad

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