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Human dignity

By Jackylen Dela Peña, Secretary General, Centrist Democratic Party of the Philippines | February 19, 2012 - 12:00am

In the 300 years the Philippines was under Spanish rule, democracy was an alien concept. It was transplanted on local shores during the Philippine Commonwealth period by our former American colonizers.

Letters to the Editor

Party-building through Charter change

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | October 10, 2004 - 12:00am

At a lunch tendered by the US embassy some time ago for a visiting academic, the guest of honor told me there was no future for a parliamentary system in the Philippines. The system requires strong and stable political...

Opinion