Columns

The following newspaper columns were written by Filipino Senator Ed Angara and published in 2006.

• Chacha is Over
• A Valuable Institution
• Giving what is due
• Creating a flexible labor market
• Competing Globally
• Corruption: A Global Issue
• The Value of Reliable Credit Information
• The Real Work
• Developing a Reading Nation
• Who's guarding the guardian?
• Breastfeeding is best
• Taking preservation seriously
• Philipine State of the Nation Address
• The people's sport
• Going back to basics
• Of Friends and Allies
• A Matter of Priority

The Supreme Court's ruling that the People's Initiative is void and unconstitutional effectively puts an end to Constitutional Change before the May 2007 elections...

The Philippine Senate celebrated its 90th anniversary amid perennial talks from various groups calling for its abolition...

All throughout our youth, we work hard and save up for a comfortable retirement. We look forward to the day when we could watch our grandchildren play...

The Philippine labor market has drastically changed over the years, and our Labor Code is no longer able to respond to the needs of our current employment picture...

Over the last three years, our country's competitiveness has consistently slipped...

This week, I attended the 2nd Global Conference of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, where over 200 Members of Parliament from all over the world came to discuss how to fight corruption at the parliamentary level...

Recently the Senate enacted the establishment of a Credit Information Corporation...

Taking action on the Guimaras oil spill clearly means going after those responsible for it - making them pay for every peso worth of damage caused by the oil spill...

In 1995, I authored the Philippine Book Publishing Industry Development Act which formulates, adopts, and implements a National Book Policy...

The root cause of the scandal engulfing the recent nursing licensure examinations lies in the fact that the members of the current exam board for nurses were handpicked by the president of the Philippine Nurses Association...

Today, there is a steady decline in the number of breastfeeding mothers...

I proposed that a National Heritage Commission be created, under the guidance of a Heritage Advisory Council...

President Arroyo's State of the Nation Address (SONA) paints a large infrastructure canvas, both encompassing and exciting...

At least a billion people watched the recently concluded World Cup, the most watched athletic event that is staged every four years...

Aggravating our public education's perennial problem of shortages - of classrooms, teachers, textbooks and other facilities - is an acute lack of vision on the part of our top school managers....

For the first time since its inaugural celebration in Baler, Aurora in 2003, the Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day was commemorated in this province of Castilla on Friday, June 30....

A national budget is more than just a statement of the government's expenditures and sources of revenues...