Vietnam’s VinFast zooms past Philippine home-grown car brands
Like my recent GRP piece on Charice’s “Self-destruct Mode” which got as far as the Tonight with Boy Abunda show, this article is another lamentation. This time it’s over the …
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Marcos Day represents the Filipino people’s moving on from a manufactured past
When a small minority of “activists” continue to encourage Filipinos to latch on to the past and sustain a pathological anxiety about the future, you know there is something wrong. …
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The Philippines is reverting back to an agrarian economy thanks to COVID-19
Nothing necessarily bad about agrarian societies though these get their bad rep from their association with the Third World and “underdevelopment”. Some “economists” would measure “modernisation” in terms of the …
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The COVID-19 pandemic laid the foundation for modern public transport in the Philippines
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a golden opportunity for tree-huggers and social justice warriors to walk their talk. A good proportion of Metro Manila residents who could afford cars and use …
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#ABSCBN taught Filipinos all the WRONG values
The way Opposition partisans, specially those among them loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) screech about the shutdown of ABS-CBN’s radio-based broadcasting operations, you’d think an institution …
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Rather than complain about the government COVID-19 lockdown, Filipinos should learn to be RESOURCEFUL
So-called “political analyst” Antonio Contreras’s position on the matter of the ongoing impact of the government’s lockdown on Filipino lives fails to take into account an inconvenient reality of modern …
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Pasig City mayor Vico Sotto should just do his job without the fanfare and the grandstanding
The whole debate surrounding Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto has nothing to do with the quality of his governance. That too, nonetheless, is debatable but is better off left to another …
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New Year and New Decade resolution for Filipinos: MOVE ON from Yellowtard rule
And then what? It’s time we practice what we preach and be really clear about what happens next now that the Yellowtards, the shrinking partisan bloc within the current Opposition …
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