We beg to differ.
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…
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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Artemio Panganiban in his Inquirer piece today “Knowing what drives China in SCS” provides an informative summary of the historical background of the claims by parties in the South China Sea. He sets the theme with a very important context… To begin with, China avows a long and glorious history that rivals Egypt and its…
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If the fundamentals weren’t sound, as Winnie Monsod asserts in her Inquirer piece “So much for sound fundamentals”, we’d be worse off to begin with. Mareng Winnie attempts to dismiss even the smallest iota of optimism in the prognoses issued by the country’s economic managers saying these are all just coming from people whose job…
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Why blame the problem on the President immediately? Because it’s an election year. Thus it is easy to see the motivation behind PhilSTAR columnist Boo Chanco’s piece today “Show some appreciation” where he writes how, in these times of pandemic, “our health workers feel abused and unappreciated by the Duterte administration.” Chanco then issues his…
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And we come down to this? Does De La Salle University (DLSU) professor and Manila Times columnist Antonio Contreras even have a realistic point of view of how politicians come into power? Doesn’t look like it when one considers this post of his on Facebook where he practically endorses boxer-turned-senator Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao’s bid for…
Here we go again — the infamous “sick man of Asia” label. A throwback to the Marcos era is all “economist” Winnie Monsod could come up with in her Inquirer piece “Why we are again the sick man of Asia”. You would think that the Opposition would be creative enough to come up with a…
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The US reopening is a gamble that probably won’t pay off — not with the Indian variant becoming the dominant one soon enough. For one, it’s been confirmed that the virus is airborne. Second vaccines don’t prevent infection but mitigate a severe case of infection leading to hospitalization or death. Business Insider reports on “The…
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