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Issues regarding communist insurgencies in the Philippines are once again the talk of the town as the country prepares to elect its next chief executive. The current administration has been aggressive in addressing problems associated extreme leftist groups and their armed counterparts. Definitely, the next head of government would inherit these successes as the military…
The Pasig River Expressway has broken ground and the project has begun in earnest even with the growing opposition to it. The initial furor was over the design that the whole river would be covered by the length of the expressway which runs from east to west from Manila Bay to Laguna De Bay. As…
I can’t think of the right words to describe this Tweet of blogger and “social media expert” Jane Uymatiao a.k.a. “Citizen Jane” a.k.a. “The Philippine Beat”. She suggests that anyone with a fancy car who runs a business and deals with the government is stealing Filipino taxpayers’ money. Those are serious allegations you are making…
It seems proponents of reclamation projects are out to test President Rodrigo Duterte’s resolve a few weeks after saying he had put a stop to such projects because of corruption. “You know, itong sa (this) Manila Bay na reclamation, thousands have applied but because of the corruption that I’ve heard early last year, there’s no more processing of papers,”…
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The Opposition continues to use the late former President Ferdinand Marcos as a scapegoat for the state of the Philippine economy. They refuse to acknowledge the validity of Marcos’s economic strategy from the beginning of his first term which was to focus on rebuilding infrastructure destroyed during World War II. After the declaration of martial…
What is Foreign Direct Investment? Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is “a category of cross-border investment in which an investor resident in one economy establishes a lasting interest in and a significant degree of influence over an enterprise resident in another economy. Ownership of 10…
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It appears that Leyte representative and House Majority Leader Ferdinand Martin Romualdez is now ready to expand his media empire from print to broadcast. The Philippine Stock Exchange had today reportedly “lifted the trading suspension of Prime Media Holdings Inc. (PRIM) after the company submitted the required comprehensive disclosure on backdoor listing.” Prime Media Holdings…
The usual crap assessment from former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario’s think-tank Stratbase-ADR Institute given prime space on mainstream media! In an Inquirer “report” on “Governance prospects for 2022 and beyond”, a certain Dindo Manhit, “founder and managing director of Stratbase Group”, regurgitated the outcome of a “town hall” organised by this “institute” which…