Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Viewpoint:
˜If it flies, it dies"
By Juan Mercado
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 15:25:00 01/15/2008
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/opinion/view/20080115-112529/If-it-flies-it-dies
That's the macho slogan of a hunters' website. Some members of the Philippine National Shooting Team scrambled to shutter this web's photo section. Why?
As in Bacolod's Air Rifle Hunting website, photos show members flaunting near-extinct Philippine ducks and mallards ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Viewpoint : Few closures
By Juan Mercado
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Posted date: January 02, 2008
From http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=109990
“We have two kinds of politicians. One is the incapable. And the other is capable of anything.” That’s graffiti smeared on a Paraguayan slum wall. But it pretty well describes this country as 2008 wobbles to a ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
by Juan Mercado
The Philippine Daily Inquirer
December 10, 2007
From
http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/theestradawatch/view.php?db=1&article=20071210-106042
MANILA, Philippines - “We cannot afford a government of thieves unless we can tolerate a nation of highwaymen.” The late publisher Joaquin “Chino” Roces issued that caution, after receiving the Legion of Honor award from President Corazon Aquino.
It’s been 19 years now since ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
By Juan Mercado
Cebu Daily News/Philippine Daily Inquirer
08/07/2007
"No place indeed should sanctuarize murder," Hamlet muttered on the ramparts of his dank damp castle. Is sanctuarized murder emerging in the 12-year-old unsolved killing of Philippine Navy's Phillip Andrew Pestano, in which witnesses are now vanishing, one after another?
Ensign Pestano was a Cebuano ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
by Juan L. Mercado
Cebu Daily News/Philippine Daily Inquirer
August 14, 2007
Does a culture of impunity flog the Ombudsman for Military Affairs to refrigerate, for over 653 days now, the reinvestigation of the murder of a 23-year-old ensign who blew the whistle on naval vessels smuggling drugs and illegal logs?
"In February and ...
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