The Daily IIJ

by Frencie L. Carreon
 (Published in Zamboanga Today on 15 September 2008; posted in http://www.zambotoday.com and http://southernphilippines.blogspot.com)
 The two-week journalism course that I recently completed in Jakarta is one of those challenging and definitely great learning episodes.  Today’s feature sums up the experience, and brushes aside questions on where I had been, and perhaps speculations on alleged [...]

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 by Frencie L. Carreon
(Published in Zamboanga Today, 30 August 2008.)
JAKARTA—When a Filipino journalist joins a small circle of colleagues in the profession coming from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and Singapore, one finds in bonding moments, notwithstanding differences, commonalities which I believe should not be taken for granted.

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