On a wet monday night, right in front where Benigno S. Aquino III took his oath of office, a lone gunman, an ex-policeman took the lives of several Hong kong tourists. The act ended not just the lives of those innocent souls but ended too Aquino's honeymoon, plunging the nation into grief and despa...

Much has been said, written, posted, and even tweeted about the 12-hour hostage-taking incident which took place in front of the Quirino Grandstand in Luneta Park last August 23 and ended with the death of 8 tourists and the hostage-taker himself.

The carnage put the Philippines once again on the spo...

When Madrid was targeted in an act of terror that saw almost 200 people die in a train bombing, the city and the country of Spain united in mourning for the victims. Barely a day after the tragedy, hundreds and even thousands of locals started congregating in public places in brazen display of solidar...

Certainly, the police got many things wrong during Monday’s bloody hostage-taking at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila. It would be remiss, however, to simply cite the lack of equipment and training for the major blunder, as what foreign security experts, the Department of Interior and Local Government...

The person that actually started it was Charina De Villa a friend from school. We had a party the day of the hostage taking and she and a couple of friends didnt show up at our mini highschool reu...

Imagine a policeman who was awarded as one of the ten best policemen of a country. Twenty-three years later, this policeman gets axed from his job because of something he insists he didn’t do. He was framed, he claims. Then imagine him going on a bus full of tourists and stopping it in front of a co...

The  deaths of eight innocent civilians is tragic. The Filipinos are grieving. Families of the victims are sad and angry. The family of hostage taker, grieve too. Mourning and outrage pour out in Hongkong. Imagine my shock upon my arrival in Manila last Monday, after a brief and happy weekend with my...

Monday was a sad day not only for the Chinese people who were involved in the tragic hostage taking. Filipinos were actually disappointed with the fact that the Police did not perform well enough to be able to save the lives of the foreigners in the bus who died in the hands of Captain Mendoza. The d...

It was surreal. A former police officer, Rolando Mendoza removed from the Philippines' National Police Force, because of charges filed against him for alleged drug related crimes and extortion, took hostage a bus full of Hong Kong tourists.

Ironically, Mendoza was reported to have been awarded for his...