Why is the Philippines always BEGGING for stuff?
The Philippines begs just like a scorpion stings. That’s just what the Philippines does. It begs. It begs for “foreign investment”. It begs for foreign “aid”. Begs for loans. Begs …
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The Philippines was a crisis waiting to happen even before COVID-19 struck
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed humankind’s long-ignored exposure to the risk of virulent diseases running wild and severely impacting the world order. It all but levelled the playing field. People …
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Philippines, the sick man of Asia “again”? No. It ALWAYS HAS been sick!
Certain “thought leaders” are issuing shrill commentary on the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns aimed to mitigate its effects. The fact is, most if not …
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German Engineering, Japanese Precision and Filipino Pride
Some racially-oriented collocations you may have stumbled across would include German engineering and Japanese precision. It gets amusing though when you see those words lined up with our very own …
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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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