Company Watch - Thai Airways.
Sep 7, 2008 Thai Airways International's services to three airports in southern Thailand have returned to normal. Hat Yai, Krabi and Phuket airports in southern Thailand were closed on August 29 but the airports have since re-opened and a Thai Airways' spokeswoman in Bangkok says the Star...

Esperon confident he is leaving a stronger AFP.
In an interview following his farewell call at the Philippine Air Force headquarters in Villamor Airbase, Esperon said he believes he had led an organization that posed no major threat against the Arroyo administration. "Amidst some rumors that some elements of the Armed Forces will join destabilizers,...

Closed 'window' since 1962.
Holding elections after devastation Despite the vast devastation and deaths by the countless thousands Myanmar continued to hold a rare election on May 10 to approve a new draft constitution prepared by the army, ignoring appeals from the outside world to postpone the vote. Looming...

Trillanes' lawyer says senator deserves bail, just like Misuari.
Lawyer Reynaldo Robles said the Magdalo officer deserves temporary liberty conferred to Misuari by a Makati court last week. But Robles disclosed that the Makati Regional Trial Court hearing the coup charges against Trillanes and his co-accused will never permit Trillanes to get out of detention. ...

P/$ rate closes at P44.07/$ 1.
PSE invites AFP to invest in stocks The Philippine Stock Exchange is tapping the Armed Forces of the Philippines as well as various professional organizations to get encourage their members to invest in the capital market to veer them away from investment scams. PSE president Francis Lim...

PNP nabs Adaza, reserve officer for 2004 coup plot.
Chief Supt. Raul Castaneda, PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) director, identified the suspects as Atty. Homobono Adaza and Col. Oscar Mapalo, a reserve officer of the AFP. According to Castaneda, the arrest of Adaza was based on the information provided by Atty. Raymund Fortun in...

Antique solon condemns fresh 'destab' effort.
Reps. Exequiel Javier (Lakas, Antique) and Danilo Suarez (Kampi, Quezon) said the expose of lawyer Raymund Fortun on the alleged coup plot should move the military and the police to stay alert and vigilant against any destabilization effort. Javier, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and...

No plot within AFP to destabilize gov't, says Teodoro.
Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said that he has not heard of any information of a plot to stage a coup d 'etat against the current administration or to unseat President Arroyo. "There is no plot within the Armed Forces. If there, perhaps, really was a plot,...

Charges filed vs Adaza, 4 others.
According to Chief Supt. Raul Castaneda, PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) director, Adaza was arrested in the vicinity of the Crown Plaza Hotel and Robinsons Galleria on Ortigas Ave., Pasig City while in the company of dismissed Supt. Rafael Cardeno, former Army Lt. Col. Oscar Mapalo, retired...

A Post-Colonial and Post-Soviet World.
This issue begins by discussing the elimination of the effects of colonialism and the Soviet Union which were each, in their own way, the result of empire-building. The idea of ruling over the lands of other people has been around as long as recorded human history. While it runs...