Category: Development

APEC 2015: a time for Filipinos to reflect on their place in the global economy

November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 benign0 14 Comments

What do ordinary Filipinos really want to get out of the imperative to “showcase” the Philippines’ best foot to the delegates of the coming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum that Manila is hosting this year? For many, it will be an opportunity to go on an extended vacation, taking up the “encouragement” coming from…

Development, Media, Society

Filipinos need to get off the loser path and onto the road to real progress

November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 benign0 22 Comments

How did the Philippines get to where it is now? It is a wretched society, unable to defend itself from foreign and natural threats, paralysed by its own enormous population, and staring at a future hobbled by a lack of the infrastructure to get it down the right road. Yet the country, over much of…

Development, Economy, Society

3 Defensive Tactics Commonly Used By The Liberal Party of the Philippines

November 8, 2015 Grimwald 6 Comments

Politics is a dirty business no matter where you go in the world. Even a nation as ideal as Sweden has problems with political corruption and no country has ever found a permanent and consequence-free solution for poverty. However, many of the problems in the latter part of the 20th century continue to plague the…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society, The South

Can Iron-fisted Leadership Turn the Philippines into a Major World Power?

November 8, 2015 zaxx 86 Comments

Flipping through the pages of world history, we can in fascination observe how the great empires of the past have in their heydays taken turns standing on the world’s pedestal, with the fall of one succeeded by the rise of another: from the ancient times with Egypt, Babylon (Iraq), Persia (Iran), Greece, & Rome, and…

Development, Government, Politics, Society, Technology

#GodSaveOurDemocracy From A Roxas Regime (Part Two)

November 5, 2015November 5, 2015 P. Farol 30 Comments

(This continues the fictional reconstruction of conversations I’ve had with several political operators a couple of weeks ago. There are many ways of telling the truth, sometimes it’s just more interesting to point at it with what is essentially a lie.) (Read Part One Here) “The very essence of democracy is the freedom to choose. But…

Development, Government, Politics

Mass national disruption as APEC Manila 2015 circus comes to town!

November 5, 2015November 5, 2015 benign0 11 Comments

Everything is such a huge drama in the Philippines. The coming Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) is no exception. It promises to effect immense disruption across a vast swath of Philippine society — which makes the very hosting of this forum by the Philippine government quite ironic. Economies rise and fall on the back of…

Development, Economy, Government, Lifestyle

Filipinos welcome Australia’s Telstra like Jesus’s second coming!

November 2, 2015November 2, 2015 benign0 29 Comments

I switched my entire household’s telecommunication needs to Telstra back in 2007. Today we enjoy about 300 GB of home internet data piped in by cable (not DSL) that is channeled to all our computing and home entertainment devices using a WiFI router provided as part of the package. We also have several mobile devices…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

3 Reasons Why The Philippines Needs Better Role Models

October 30, 2015 Grimwald 18 Comments

I think I remember mentioning that culture certainly plays a part in one’s morality or in the perception thereof. This idea was espoused by none other than Chinese Philosopher Confucius himself, in case you want to know. But now, I have to ask the question, how can we ever hope to solve our dysfunctions as a nation…

Culture, Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society

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