Political Summit
Despite the tensions generated by the political crisis, members of different Philippine political parties were able to sit down to express their advocacies cordially. Former Rep. Rimpy Bondoc represented the Nacionalista Party in the Political Summit held last July 12,2005 at the Manila Hotel. View some picture here.

Congress of Democrats from the Islamic World
Rep. Lala Taliño-Santos recently attended the Congress of Democrats from the Islamic World held at Jakarta, Indonesia that ran from  September 6 – 9.2005. Political Party officers from predominantly Muslim countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Bahrain were present as well from Turkey, Morocco, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. Read the entire article here.

Singapore Cruise
Talk about taking the meaning literally, the Nacionalistas actually took to sea on board a ocean liner with their better halves in tow. The sea trip in the asean region last September 2004 was a shared learning experience on the advances made by our neighbors in the field of tourism and culture promotion, as well as infrastructure development. Read the entire article here.

Christmas Party
The Nacionalistas celebrated another year together in a modest Christmas bash held at Brittany Bay on December 5, 2005. Read the entire article here.

The Bamboo and the Filipino
The bamboo for the Filipino is more than a plant. Its very nature is entwined with his culture, lifestyle, and character. Read the entire article here.

Quantity Over Quality
Two developments have been brought to the fore once more the woeful state of our education system: one is a finding by the British Council that there are too many colleges and universities that are “diluting” the quality of higher education; and the other is the renewed call to increase the number of years in basic education from 10 to 11 and even 12 in order for the country to be at par with the rest of the world. Read the entire article here and the letter to the Editor in response.

Higher-Education Lows
The RESIGNATION of the Dominican educator, Fr. Rolando V. De la Rosa, O.P. as chair of the Commission on Higher Education shows how the tentacles of petty politics and nepotism have reached higher education, choking it of the feeblest striving toward excellence, pulling it down to the level of the middling, the mediocre and the meretricious. Read the entire article here and the letter to the Editor in response.

*The views expressed by individual party members do not necessarily reflect party positions.