Category: Business

Opposition prefers a Philippine sellout to the US over working with China

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Opposition prefers a Philippine sellout to the US over working with China

Appeasement or rapprochement? How it it exactly that you deal with a regional superpower like China? Among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries, only Vietnam has fought a land and sea conflict against China. But among ASEAN also, Vietnam has the most battle-seasoned military. The Vietnam War ended relatively recently in 1975. In…

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Business, Economy, Environment, History

BUSTED! Rappler, Vera Files, @1Sambayan possibly in cahoots to demonise Duterte, China over WPS natural gas BILLIONS!

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BUSTED! Rappler, Vera Files, @1Sambayan possibly in cahoots to demonise Duterte, China over WPS natural gas BILLIONS!

Busted. Again. The former Ambassador is really a thorn in the side of the Yellowidiots. In his latest Manila Times piece “Aquino official behind US firm spreading fake news on Chinese activities in SCS”, Bobi Tiglao writes of former Aquino official Peter Anthony Abaya whose last posting in the government of former President Noynoy Aquino,…

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Business, Media

What REALLY happened in 2016: Why the proposed July 12 National West Philippine Sea Victory Day is based on LIES

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What REALLY happened in 2016: Why the proposed July 12 National West Philippine Sea Victory Day is based on LIES

The South China Sea dispute has been in the news cycle ever since President Rodrigo Duterte announced a shift in Philippine foreign policy after he was sworn into office in 2016. It was one that would not be closely-aligned with the United States as the former colonial master but an independent foreign policy where the…

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Business, Crime, Politics

Ret. Justice Antonio Carpio’s response to ex SolGen Florin Hilbay’s statement on South China Sea dispute: LIES!

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Ret. Justice Antonio Carpio’s response to ex SolGen Florin Hilbay’s statement on South China Sea dispute: LIES!

Finally, Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio issued what is evidently a rejoinder to former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay’s statement on the arbitration between the Philippines and China over their South China Sea dispute last Saturday. Recall that Hilbay, who answered only to then President Noynoy Aquino, released that statement with the aim to point…

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Business, History

Candidates wanting to mount a CREDIBLE challenge to Duterte should avoid fake campaign “consultants”

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Candidates wanting to mount a CREDIBLE challenge to Duterte should avoid fake campaign “consultants”

The now self-appointed “Chief Political Analyst” and Dr La Salle University professor Antonio Contreras details in his Manila Times piece “Surveying beyond who is leading: Looking into the minds of voters” a survey on “what drives voters to make certain preferences and choices”. The survey, Contreras writes, aims to inform candidates making a bid for…

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Business, Politics

Natural gas BILLIONS behind an Opposition desperate to block another Duterte or Marcos presidency

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Natural gas BILLIONS behind an Opposition desperate to block another Duterte or Marcos presidency

Inquirer columnist Winnie Monsod in her piece “Will Duterte stand by PH, as P-Noy did?” gives us some inside insight into what may have gone one behind the scenes in the administration of the late former President Noynoy Aquino with regard to the South China Sea dispute. She relates how one faction within the administration…

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Business, Politics

Duterte reverses Aquino admin failures, makes good on infrastructure development promises

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Duterte reverses Aquino admin failures, makes good on infrastructure development promises

The Rappler article “Aquino to end term with 7 completed PPP projects” dated December 19, 2013 authored by Cherrie Regalado all but parrots lofty statements made by the then Yellow government on their infrastructure development record — three years before then President Noynoy Aquino’s term ended. Regalado “reported” on “a press briefing on Thursday, December…

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Business, Development

LANDBANK-UCPB merger clears way for further development of Philippine coconut industry

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LANDBANK-UCPB merger clears way for further development of Philippine coconut industry

The United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) was one of the largest unibanks in the country before the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) sunk its claws into it. After 1986, the bank continued its sterling performance until the old guard were replaced by executives who managed to weasel their way in through political godfathers. The…

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