The only way to understand the South China Sea issue is to get a map of: 1. The oceans of the world, or 2. of the ASEAN Nations (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines). In the ASEAN map, find in front of Malaysia’s side of...
USA has 2 kinds of law. 1. State law meaning a law passed by a state like New York. That law applies only to those who live in New York. 2. Federal Law. This is a law passed by the Federal Congress in Washington. Federal...
A nation can have economic progress only if it has enough electricity to power its industries, factories and to serve the needs of its people. US and China have the biggest and the second biggest world’s economies. Their electricity is 80% power by coal. They...
American belief in press freedom and freedom of information is unique. It is the only nation that allowed the press to report accidents involving hydrogen bombs. An ordinary H-bomb equals 200 Hiroshima atomic bombs. In 1957 a USAF B-47 bomber accidentally dropped 2 H-bombs in...
Gladys and I vacationed in Macao from September 3 to 8. We attended the 7:45 am Mass at St. Joseph church in Senado Real every day. On September 7 after mass, we had breakfast at the fast food chain, Subway in front of the Colegio...
We became independent in 1946. Filipino history books of the 40s to the 60s were made by Filipino historians (ages 30 to 60) who grew up mentally conditioned by 2 foreign cultures: Spanish and American. Instead of writing from the eyes of a Filipino, their...
Q: Chinese currency replace American dollar as the world currency. EXPLAIN. A: There is no agreement among nations that the currency of one nation will be the world currency. From 100 B.C. (Before Christ) up to the 10th century, the places slowly growing into European nations...
The story of Mindanao and Kadayawan is part of the tradition and culture of Malaysia and Indonesia. There were waves of settlers arriving hundreds of years apart. The earliest were the mamunuas. The Indonesians who settled in Agusan were called Manobo (river men) some in Surigao...
Q. Indigenous people A. Big problem. Smart miners got to the tribal datus, chieftains paying them, as consultants, hiring the relatives of the Datus as guards, Laborers. Some Indigenous tribes say yes (Surigao) some say no (Tampakan). The new mining policy must specify what the role...
Q. Any chance of a clearer mining policy? A. House Bill No 3763 filed on December 1, 2010 want to regulate rationally the exploring and use of minerals. Malacañang wants to get more mining royalties. The Problem is in existing mining agreements the royalty is only...