America votes… and so does Freiburg!

The main Mensa (cafeteria) in Freiburg, Germany is converted into a bar to hold big occasions like football matches. This time it was for a US Election Night Party.

A photo of Barack Obama flashes on the screen as the hosts talk to a correspondent in the US.

Organizers of the Election Night Party make final [...]

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Headline

Like every morning for the past two weeks (supposedly until last night), I wait at a bus stop where I take my bus to Siegburg main train station. I usually take a look at the coin-operated newspaper stand to get a glimpse of what concerns Germany at the moment. This Express (last Saturday) [...]

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Photokina 2008: a (shutter) bug’s life

Köln Messe/Deutz became a photographer’s Mecca this past week. Photokina is supposedy the biggest expo of everything that has something to do with photography, from the latest digital cameras to specialty lomography picture clips. I’d like a special mention to Frank, without whose generous offer of a free ticket I couldn’t go to the biennial [...]

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Independence, colonizers, and abduction

Today is the 110th anniversary of the Philippine independence. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! (Long live the Philippines!) .
Chief Justice Renato Puno, however, believes we still have colonizers- economic colonizers, that is.
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What happens when the messenger gets caught in the cross-fire? I find the recent kidnappings in the Philippines very relevant to the Deutsche-Welle Global [...]

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Guilty to the ugly

Inq7.net has been publishing a running account of the subic rape case, which involves “Nicole” a Filipino, and four American soldiers based here in the Philippines for the Visiting Forces Agreement. Finally, after a painstaking one-year wait, Nicole received justice as Judge Pozon decided on a guilty verdict on Smith while the three other [...]

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