Did you know that campaign jingles have been around Philippine elections since the 1950s? Back then, the most popular was "Mambo Magsaysay" or "Magsaysay
SO, what else is new? Once again, corruption is a dominant issue in this year’s elections. Since we gained our independence from the US in 1946, corruption issues hurled by opposing candidates against each other have marred our elections. In the first post-war presidential election on April 23, 1946, Manuel Roxas’s paramount issue against…
The Senate of the Philippines remains as one of the most revered institutions in our country. On October 17, 2016, the Senate observed its Centennial Anniversary and this year it will turn 106 years old. It’s been a long time since the first Senate President, Manuel Luis Quezon, banged the gavel to…
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Sonny Coloma On June 30, 1992, the traditional ceremony of political succession will unfold at the Luneta. The last time it was done that way was in 1965. I shall be there with you to proudly witness the event. This is the glory of democracy, that its most solemn moment should be the p
Taiwan’s history is full of three-digit numbers indicating the month and day of major events: there’s 228 denoting the pivotal White Terror incident in 1947 and 921 for the devastating Jiji earthquake of 1999. Not quite as well remembered are 823, which represents the start of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1958 or, 524, the date of an attack on the US Embassy in Taiwan by rioters the year before.
One date that is now forgotten by all except the staunchest Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) nostalgists is the snappiest of the lot: 123.
On Jan. 23, 1954,