By JAKE C. SORIANO ASIA Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders, at the end of their two-day summit in Manila today, condemned acts of terrorism and vowed not to be intimated by the waves of attacks that rocked the world the last few days. “Under the shadow cast by the terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut,
By JAKE C. SORIANO Photos by ZHUANG MING DENG DESPITE tight security during the 23rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meeting (AELM), a large crowd of protesters were able to get near the summit area where 21 heads of economies are gathered. Protesters clashed with the police at the corner of Gil Puyat Avenue and Roxas
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS ASIDE from President Xi Jinping, another APEC guest from China is stirring interest. He is Jack Ma, founder and chairman of the Alibaba Group, the largest marketplace in the world which is expected to be worth over $150 Billion by next year,
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS SOUTH China Sea looms large even if it is not in the agenda of the 23rd meeting of the leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Manila on Nov. 18 and 19. Foreign Undersecretary Lula del Rosario, chair of the APEC 2015 Senior Officials Meetings, which did all the
BY ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS AGER Ontog, director-general of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA), who showed his lack of intelligence when he ordered the ban of Hongkong journalists who asked questions that displeased President Aquino during the 2013 summit of Asia Pacific Economic Conference in Bali, Indonesia, said he did not regret his order that
