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JGL Eye: WAR WITH CHINA NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE!

JGL Eye By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – The United Nations Convention of the Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) was described as “a monumental achievement of the international community, second only to the Charter of the UN” after its birth 34 years ago. When UNCLOS ...

ARBITRAL COURT DASHES CHINA’S NINE-DASH-LINE!

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) -- A unanimous award has been issued to the Philippines Tuesday (July 12) by the Arbitral Tribunal in the Hague, The Netherlands constituted under Annex VII to the

JGL Eye: CORRUPT MEDIA MEN DO NOT DESERVE TO DIE!

JGL Eye By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – Incoming Philippine President Rody Duterte is right. There are corrupt journalists, whom he classifies as the legitimate ones he calls “crusaders, who bare all to the

JGL Eye: SUPER TYPHOON DUTERTE BLOWS EVERYBODY AWAY

JGL Eye By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – Nobody, not even among his supporters, saw it coming. Everybody was caught by surprise when Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte steamrolled his opponents, who promptly threw in the towel after the votes for Duterte from the qu...

JGL Eye: CAN DUTERTE END “REIGN OF ERROR” IN PH?

JGL Eye By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)   NARITA, Japan (JGL) – I was on my way to Chicago, Illinois when I got a PM (private message) on my Facebook account that my cousin’s husband was gunned down because he

Heart to Heart: What are you voting for?

Heart to Heart By Philip S. Chua, MD, FACS, FPCS       On Monday, May 9, 2016, the Filipinos at home and abroad will decide the fate of the Philippines and its people. The health and future of our nation are literally in the hands of our people who will cast their vote at this important piv...

JGL Eye: WHY BONGBONG IS LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK?

JGL Eye By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016) Journal GlobaLinks)   SORSOGON CITY (JGL) – When I was a young primary school boy growing up in Piot, a near west barangay of Sorsogon City, I often heard adult males praising boys my age to be

ERAP’S LAST HURRAH!

[pb_row][pb_column span="span12"][pb_text] By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks)       MANILA (JGL) – Joseph “Erap” E. Estrada can still run for Manila mayor in 2019 but when he turns 79 Tuesday (April 19), he feels that his 47 years in politics is coming to its end.