Davao Today columnist nabbed at Cagayan de Oro airport (Philstar.com) - June 9, 2019 - 2:26pm MANILA, Philippines—The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines on Sunday reported that a columnist for a Davao City news site was nabbed on Sunday for reasons yet unknown. NUJP said Margarita Valle, a columnist of Davao Today and also a former columnist of Sun.Star Davao, was reportedly held on Sunday morning at the Laguindingian Airport in Cagayan de Oro while waiting for her flight home to Davao City. Davao Today is part of Altermidya, or the People’s Alternative Media Network, a network of progressive and independent media outfits. Members of the network have been subject to online harassment and cyber attacks on their websites. Valle’s son, Rius, said his mother was “illegally arrested” by the members of the Philippine National Police in Cagayan De Oro City Airport for an "unknown … [Read more...] about Davao Today columnist nabbed at Cagayan de Oro airport
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STAR bags 4 Rotary journalism awards
STAR bags 4 Rotary journalism awards (The Philippine Star) - June 7, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — Three reporters and a columnist of The Philippine STAR were among the print, radio and broadcast journalists who received the prestigious Rotary Club of Manila (RCM) Centennial Journalism Awards yesterday. Cited by RCM were columnist Boo Chanco as Newspaper Business Opinion Writer of the Year; finance reporter Mary Grace Padin as Newspaper Female Business Reporter of the Year; Cecille Suerte Felipe as Newspaper Female Reporter of the Year; and Paolo Romero as Newspaper Male Reporter of the Year. TV5 host Cito Beltran, who also writes a column for The STAR, was awarded as Television Male Broadcaster of the Year, while Gem Avancena of TV5 Davao was Regional Female Broadcaster of the Year. TV5 was named Television Station of the Year. Chief executive officer Chot Reyes received the award. The Freeman Cebu was cited as … [Read more...] about STAR bags 4 Rotary journalism awards
Is Mahathir paving the way ahead?: The Star columnist
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said many times, and in different ways, too, so the message is clear and consistent - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be his successor and there should be no doubt of this. But for whatever reasons, the Prime Minister is constantly grilled about this by the media. Will the Parti Keadilan Rakyat president succeed him as Prime Minister, and when will the world's oldest prime minister step down? This is the regular line of questioning. It's incredible that he has never lost his cool answering these two questions, and neither has he directed his press officers to tell the media not to bring the subject up. So the press keeps bringing it up, and, for even stranger reasons, these repeated news reports still grab an audience. The only thing that brought them together was their determination to end Barisan Nasional's 60-year stranglehold, to topple Datuk Seri Najib Razak and haul him and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor to court to … [Read more...] about Is Mahathir paving the way ahead?: The Star columnist
The Sixers’ answer to Siakam’s big opening game was to put a fellow Cameroonian on the Raptors star
By Bruce Arthur Sports Columnist Tues., April 30, 2019 Pascal Siakam was pondering. He acknowledges Joel Embiid is a challenge, because that’s obvious. Embiid might be wheezing, overweight and, in Game 2 of this Raptors-Sixers second-round series, suffering from what he succinctly termed “the s----.” But the Philadelphia centre is still a holy terror defensively, able to leap out, get fooled, and still recover to the rim to block out the sun. As Raptors centre Marc Gasol said, “We know once the ball gets there and gets into the paint, a lot of the time Joel is coming.” The 76ers adjusted to Siakam’s near-perfect 29-point opener by putting his fellow Cameroonian on him Monday night, because the math worked. Siakam is most effective when he beats someone to the rim; Embiid is a seven-foot monster there. Siakam shot 9-for-25 in Game 2, often against Embiid. He pondered a solution. “Obviously he’s bigger than me, but … [Read more...] about The Sixers’ answer to Siakam’s big opening game was to put a fellow Cameroonian on the Raptors star
Calm before another storm in Johor?: The Star columnist
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - What a roller-coaster of a week it has been for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. For a while, it seemed like his career was once again on the line as he came under fire from his party over the controversial reshuffle of the Johor exco. The Bersatu president and his powerful party chairman were clearly not on the same page over it and Muhyiddin was criticised for going against the no-reshuffle decision made by no less than the Cabinet. But something intangible has happened along the way and Muhyiddin may have finally found his mojo in the midst of a crisis. The Chinese word for crisis is made up of two other words - danger and opportunity - and it looks like Muhyiddin may have survived the danger and turned it into an opportunity. He is now seen as the bridge across the troubled waters between the Johor Palace and Putrajaya. Some political watchers even credited Muhyiddin as being statesmanlike in handling this complicated issue between two powerful … [Read more...] about Calm before another storm in Johor?: The Star columnist