Category: Economy

Facebook etiquette fail: Are Singaporeans getting fed up with Filipino guest workers?

January 14, 2015January 14, 2015 benign0 23 Comments

So while the French are stuck with 5 million Muslims, Singaporeans are stuck with almost 200,000 Filipinos. France, of course, has bigger problems. The Muslim population there is proportionately bigger at 7.5 percent of the population. Filipinos “guests” in Singapore, on the other hand, make up less than 4 percent. Many French Muslims are citizens….

Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Lifestyle, Society, Technology

Getting Out of Debt The Benitez Way

January 12, 2015 P. Farol 9 Comments

So I discussed the controversial case of PWU and STI with other writers of Get Real Post and it was generally agreed that it’s a real life example of how Pinoys dig themselves into poverty. Good old Benign0 has been saying for years that poverty is simply entering into obligations that you can’t fulfill and…

Crime, Economy, Money Talks

Shocking Facts About How The Benitezes Ran PWU

January 10, 2015January 10, 2015 P. Farol 8 Comments

A Google Alert gave me one of the biggest shocks of my life late last night despite being pleasantly drunk from the beer I had with a dear old friend from past political campaigns. You see a couple of days ago I set up Google Alerts for PWU and members of the Benitez clan to keep tabs…

Crime, Economy, Education, Money Talks

Why it is wrong to spend P100M on a celeb wedding in the #Philippines

January 7, 2015May 6, 2022 benign0 68 Comments

Filipinos’ values are indeed perverted beyond recognition. In many Filipino movies, the bad guys are often pointy-nosed fair-skinned snobs (keeping to the narrow-minded way Philippine cinema’s jeje-culture traditionally portrays the rich) living in obnoxious tacky mansions while the “hero” is an other-side-of-da-riles lad or lass living the Pinoy challenge of scraping together a “decent” life….

Civics, Culture, Economy, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

The #Philippines suffers from acute intellectual bankruptcy and a lack of common sense

January 5, 2015 benign0 28 Comments

[The following is a piece originally published in The Manila Bulletin on the 09th April 2000 and featured in Get Real Philippines on the same year. How many of the issues mentioned here remain the same unchanged ones today? Remember, this was written back in 2000.] * * * AN admired Filipino economist, based in…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

AirAsia #QZ8501 disappearance highlights disturbing aspects of Southeast Asian air travel industry

December 29, 2014December 29, 2014 benign0 11 Comments

Less than 24 hours into the disappearance of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 and, already, conspiracy theorists are at work reading into the minutiae of minimal information being released by official sources. That QZ8501 is the third Malaysian aircraft (after Malaysian Airlines MH370 vanished with 239 people in March and, another, MH17 carrying 298 people was shot…

Civics, Economy, Lifestyle

Finished or not finished, pass your papers!

December 15, 2014December 15, 2014 Soy Lagman 54 Comments

My teacher used to shout “finished or not finished, pass your papers” as we hurriedly tried to cram in answers to questions during written exams in grade school. The same situation awaits President Aquino come June 2016. There will always be unfinished tasks and unfulfilled promises in a politician’s term but eighteen (18) long months…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics

In the Name of Development: Agta Dumagat people versus the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone (APECO) project

December 3, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

“Hindi kaunlaran ng nakararami. Kaunlaran lang ng iilan.” This is what Marlon Angara, a fisherfolk from Casiguran, said when asked about what he thinks of Aurora Pacific Economic Zone or APECO. He is one of the locals who are at risk of losing their land and livelihood to give way for the construction of a…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

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