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LAST Friday, June 23, columnist Bobi Tiglao may have alluded to me as the columnist when he wrote, Another critic pompously claims that Maharlika is confused, in that it can t make up its mind whether it is a sovereign fund or a national development fund. But can t it be both, as Singapore s Temasek Holdings was in its inception and the more recent Indonesian Investment Fund is? I have asked The Manila Times to postpone part two of last week s article to next week and publish this instead.
Of fishing boats and fishing votes Mauro Gia Samonte
The media continue to sizzle with the Julian Felipe Reef controversy, and it has begun to vex me no end.
Bobi Tiglao calls the narrative of Chinese maritime militia ships intruding into Philippine territory a hoax. An innocent story in my tabloid, Pwersa, narrates a meeting between the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Philippine military in which the Chinese had clarified the mooring of those ships as taking refuge from bad weather and assured their Philippine counterparts that those vessels would leave when the weather cleared. But a few dozen stayed behind to resume fishing. And this is where Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin Jr. made mountains out of molehills, calling the event aggression.