Re-constructing Colonial Philippines: 1900-1910 by Patricio Abinales.

It also happens to be the color for Malaysia’s royalty.There are photos of the protest, including a rather nifty map of Kuala Lumpur showing the route of the march,and a video, and links to how Malaysia’s media reported it (a traffic jam) and the outside world reported it (what it was, a rally) in Screenshots, Jeff Ooi’s blog:Organisers of the BERSIH rally had no qualms in announcing the four gathering points — Sogo department store, Masjid India, Masjid Negara and Pasar Seni — for the march to begin from Dataran Merdeka to Istana Negara….  Elsewhere in Masjid Jamek and Masjid India areas, some BERSIH rally participants, particularly those in yellow shirts, were detained and later released…Somewhere nearer, aroud Majid Jamek, where the LRT bypassed the station without making a usual halt at Pasar Tani, drama ensued before the rain poured…Meanwhile, another group led by Ustaz Hadi Awang (enroute from Pasar Tani) and Nasharuddin Mat Isa, coming from Masjid Negara and Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, weaved through the alleys connecting the Dayabumi basement carpark and made their way to the Istana…By then, Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng, Khalid Ibrahim and Kamaruddin Jaafar had waited patiently at the gate of the palace….  However, the growing legions of Korea’s bloggers are having a field day with it.See the entry in Marmot’s Hole:Chaebols creating slush funds and bribing people isn’t new, but what makes this case unique is that a former insider has come foward with the allegations, something that is rare in this society.On a related note, the concerns raised by the Samsung story and feeble coverage are echoed in another entry on Japan in Global Voices: Japan: Pulling the Strings.While in the form of dense notes, Government-business relationship in East Asia suggests the close relationship between politicians and businessmen in Japan (see also this partial transcript of a lecture on the Japanese political economy) and South Korea, a relationship now clashing with aspirations for more transparent government.

Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India.  Also available free, on line.  In particular, note the book’s Conclusion, which compares India and the Philippines to Vietnam.

The President, through her husband, had hoped to topple Lakas in the last elections, but Kampi didn’t make the grade, and the infighting in the ruling coalition led to some bad fallout in the Senate election results.But the President knows that Kampi, as her personal pet party, has a limited shelf life, unlike say the NPC, which is Danding Cojuangco’s pet party (or the NP, Villar’s pet party, or, technically speaking but less so, the LP as the Roxas pet party)….  Lakas, on the other hand, has no real presidential candidate in play, and so might find its fortunes rapidly wiped out, too, come 2010.So, Mon Casiple says, the three leaders of Lakas realize that in unity, there is strength (pun intended): and that requires Lakas as the main benificiary of……  It will not preclude further plots along the road to 2010, from both sides of the coalition as well as from both sides of the opposition.A Filipino I know who lived in Malaysia, once told me that a Malaysian royal once told him, “when you Filipinos lost your royalty, you lost your soul.” A story like this one, Judge Dread in Malaysia, makes for interesting reading.Incidentally, in the same conversation I had with the Filipino former resident of Malaysia, and a Filipina knowledgeable about Indonesia, she said in Indonesia, the Dutch turned the Indonesian royal rulers into civil servants with Dutch superiors;In the Philippines, the Spanish took over the islands one ruler at a time, guaranteeing them privileges (exemptions from tribute), and permitting them local elections in which the local (Spanish) parish priest acted as a kind of one-man Comelec.

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Zamora said that while the Constitution grants the Congress supremacy in cases of impeachment, in reality, because of the Francisco case, the Supreme Court intervened, tied the hands of Congress, and along the way, violated a fundamental tenet of law: that no man may be a judge in his own case (the Supreme Court, in this case, intervening in a case involving the potential impeachment of its own Chief Justice).A synopsis of a Newsbreak report on the ill-fated NAIA3 Terminal, by Torn and Frayed.  Oddly enough, the President’s two predecessors came across better than the incumbent:However, since NAIA 3 is a major public works project, history will also judge the three presidents who oversaw the project: Ramos, Estrada, and Arroyo.The building of the terminal did not start to unravel until after Ramos’s term and he escapes relatively unscathed….  As Newsbreak points out, the timing was “unfortunate”, since “just a day before the Philippine government’s lawyers in the ICSID arbitration proceedings in Washington, DC, had made a filing stating that Manila had not taken acts amounting to expropriation.”Speaking of the President, Stella Arnaldo’s Blogspot says her former professors are, well, embarrassed.

Entirely available on line!  Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society.