Deafening SILENCE greets Cory Aquino’s 10th death anniversary

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Today is actually the tenth anniversary of the death of former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino. That’s a pretty significant milestone. Most people make a big deal about a round-figure anniversary. This year, however, we aren’t seeing any big commemoration extravaganzas bathed in the colour yellow. EDSA is all business-as-usual — still the massive smoke-belching parking…

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Politics, Society

Those Who Govern or Those Who Are Governed: Who Is To Blame?

Posted on By Rafael Mendoza 10 Comments on Those Who Govern or Those Who Are Governed: Who Is To Blame?

Before there was a President Donald Trump chanting the catchy “Make America Great Again”, our country had a Ferdinand Marcos. In his inaugural speech, he addressed the Filipino people not as groups and tribes, but as a nation under one flag, carrying their hopes for a better future. He told the people “this nation can…

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Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Prosperity for the countryside: Promote the Philippines as a haven for “digital nomads”

Posted on By Kate Natividad 18 Comments on Prosperity for the countryside: Promote the Philippines as a haven for “digital nomads”

Here’s an easy way for local governments in the Philippines to stimulate their local economies — become havens for “digital nomads”. Digital nomads are mobile workers who are engaged in work that only requires an Internet connection and does not require them to be physically present in any one location. This type of work usually…

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Development, Lifestyle

More labour regulation could motivate businesses to reduce reliance on cheap workers and be more INNOVATIVE

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Tightened labour contracting laws is good. It will force businesses to rely less on labour and be more reliant on technology and capital solutions to improve productivity. When the process of hiring workers is convoluted and highly-regulated, well, why bother, right? Tighter labour regulations and higher minimum wages could therefore kill lazy entrepeneurs and reward…

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Economy

If I were Duterte, this is the State of the Nation Address I’d be delivering today…

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My fellow Filipinos, Today your government stands before you in top form — validated by the crushing defeat of the Opposition in this year’s election and, thus, enjoying renewed affirmation that the Filipino people stand solid behind our program to implement long-overdue change. Our commitment to serve stands on principles that need no deference to…

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Government

Sedition charges against Robredo et al are based on sworn statements and not mere “viral” YouTube videos

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In her Inquirer column today, Solita “Winnie” Monsod is up in arms over what she regards as the Philippine police’s selective treatment of statements made by Peter Joemel Advincula over the last several months. Advincula, we recall, is the hooded figure “Bikoy” in the video series “Ang Totoong Narcolist” which supposedly tagged President Rodrigo Duterte’s…

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Crime

House Speakership Still Free For All, Cayetano Is A Mere Suggestion

Posted on By P. Farol 7 Comments on House Speakership Still Free For All, Cayetano Is A Mere Suggestion

I hate to break it to my friends over at Congressman Alan Peter Cayetano’s camp, but like Congressman Lord Allan Jay Velasco, it seems they counted their chicks way before the chicken laid the eggs. As political observer Albert C. Lim put it in my interview with him on my Youtube Channel Social Media Soup,…

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Politics