Category: Business

Cebu Pacific May Risk Passengers’ Health With Antigen COVID-19 Test Kits

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 P. Farol 1 Comment

Word is out that Cebu Pacific may have bought and might be using Antigen COVID-19 rapid testing kits, thereby putting the health of its passengers at risk of potentially contracting the disease from personnel or fellow passengers who may register false-negative test results. Recently, the Department of Health issued an advisory against TruLaboratories Corporation for…

Business

DOH Issues Advisory Against TruLaboratories Corporation, Warns Other Companies

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 P. Farol 1 Comment

It appears that companies have jumped the gun on the still to be approved Omnibus Guidelines on COVID-19 Testing and have begun marketing their testing kits through social media. This has prompted the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) to issue an advisory calling out TruLaboratories Corporation for publishing a social media post which it says…

Business, Government

The Philippines is reverting back to an agrarian economy thanks to COVID-19

August 11, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

Nothing necessarily bad about agrarian societies though these get their bad rep from their association with the Third World and “underdevelopment”. Some “economists” would measure “modernisation” in terms of the proportion of the workforce employed in agriculture. As the thinking goes, a progressive shift in the workforce from farming to manufacturing and services and, therefore,…

Business, Development, Economy

COVID-19 economic collapse is the crisis the Philippines had to have!

August 7, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

Filipinos can no longer rely on their traditional gravy trains — OFWism, work outsourced from the First World, foreign investment, and foreign aid — to prop up their labour-added-value economy. Foreign workers are coming “home” by the droves, the First World is rapidly repatriating its offshore work, and governments all over the world are diverting…

Business, Economy, Government

Filipino-American nutjobs cry bloody “cultural appropriation” over Barkada wine bar

August 2, 2020August 3, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

A Washington DC wine bar originally christened Barkada was forced to change its name following a “social media backlash” from a small group of nutjobs from the Filipino-American community. The National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA), which claims to “[represent] many Filipino organizations, Filipino business owners and workers, and concerned Filipino community members within…

Business, Culture, Society

The KADAMAY mentality of ABS-CBN

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

Despite many Filipinos including former contracted talent moving on with their lives, ABS-CBN continue a melodramatic emotional blackmail campaign to remind the public how “dependent” they are on the network “family” which they market as the brand Kapamilya. Instead of recognising that survival and prosperity as a private enterprise is something one’s management and shareholders…

Business, Media

ABS-CBN execs nowhere to be seen in pro-ABSCBN protest rallies!

July 19, 2020July 19, 2020 benign0 3 Comments

ABS-CBN starlet Angel Locsin is currently being put up as a goddess of ABS-CBN fandom. Such is this reverence for the celebrity that even the foremost “thought leaders” of Yellowtardom (the community of partisans rabidly loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan) now even see Locsin as a possible presidential bet presumably for the coming 2022…

Business, Media

ABS-CBN demise: It’s the SYSTEM, Students!

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 PulbuRonn 8 Comments

The recent junking of the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN is a welcome breath of fresh air. As I’ve wrote on my previous article, I really, truly couldn’t care less if ABS-CBN goes off the air. My sentiment is still the same. ABS-CBN has played political kingmakers for decades, dumbed down its audiences with its roster…

Business, Media