Editorial

FVR’s take on Taiwan

Published : Thursday May 23, 2013   |  Category : Editorial   |  Views : 38

Picture this: A person breaks in and enters a property owned by another. A guard dog tries to bark him off, but he decides to stay and gets bitten. The intruder’s family promtply rushes to the front of the  house to demand damages. The family whose property was broken... Read more

Here we go again

Published : Wednesday May 22, 2013   |  Category : Editorial   |  Views : 61

Don’t look now, but with so many unfinished items on its plate, Congress wants something bigger on its legislative menu – Charter change. It is quite decidedly a contentious, divisive issue that could throw the band wagon  reform way off course and set back the clock of national development.    ... Read more

Fading hope

Published : Tuesday May 21, 2013   |  Category : Editorial   |  Views : 126
By : People's Journal

Define hopelessness. It is getting a college diploma and still unable to land a job. This would indeed be the greatest heartache, the ultimate tragedy for families who sold their heirloom, pawned the land, and sold farm animals just to send kids to college as a way out of the... Read more

Social security for all

Published : Monday May 20, 2013   |  Category : Editorial   |  Views : 93

Hard to reach but not unreachable. All people who work hard during their productive years deserve ample nest eggs to raw on when they reach retirement or old age. It should not matter whether they are formally employed in the private sector or are engaged in the so-called underground economy... Read more

Untrustworthy

Published : Sunday May 19, 2013   |  Category : Editorial   |  Views : 152
By : People's Journal

We are a nation with no sense of outrage for the abominable. A public elective office is a public trust. And yet we keep on voting for people who are untrustworthy – warlords, ex-convicts, suspected illegal gambling operators, accused mass murderers. You name the kind, and we elect them... Read more

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