Category: Development

Filipinos need to rethink how they value their overseas contract workers

July 20, 2015July 22, 2015 FallenAngel 14 Comments

Overseas Filipinos, whether they be migrants or overseas contract workers (OCW’s), are a valuable resource to their home country. Obviously, they pump money to the homeland and to their families, which props up the economy, to the tune of about 10-14% of its GDP. Second, the skills they learned from their jobs overseas could and…

Culture, Development, Economy, Lifestyle

Kulturang Pinoy: Makalumang Pag-iisip Sa Modernong Mundo

July 19, 2015 Grimwald 8 Comments

2015 na at ilang buwan na lang ay darating na 2016 na siyang inaasahan ng nakararami na magdadala ng mabuting pagbabago sa ating bansa. Ganoon pa man, pasensya na kung hindi ako gaanong umaasa na darating ang pagbabago na inaasam ng ating mga kababayan dahil sa palagay ko, iilan lang naman talaga ang gustong magbago para…

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

Lessons from Greece: Can Third World nations really afford ‘democratic’ governments?

July 15, 2015 benign0 7 Comments

You can almost hear Robin Leach snootily addressing his audience in the popular 1980s TV show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous when you read this: See that demoractic government? You can’t afford it. By hook and, literally, by crook a while back, Greece joined the European Union and replaced the drachma with the euro…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics

Ang Immoralidad ng Pinoy Media

July 14, 2015 Grimwald 13 Comments

Kamakailan lamang, meron mga naki-usap na isalin ko sa Tagalog o wikang Filipino ang tatlo sa aking mga nakaraan na artikulo. Ang isa ay iyong tungkol kay Vice Ganda, yung susunod ay ukol sa Pinoy Big Brother at iyong huli naman ay naglalaman ng mga kritisismo laban sa media ng Pilipinas. Madalang talaga akong gumawa ng artikulo sa…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

Crisis in Greece: Would you lend money to a person who can’t pay?

July 13, 2015 benign0 32 Comments

Lots of debate around who is the victim and who is the bad guy in Europe nowadays thanks to the financial crisis gripping Greece and, as a consequence, the rest of the European Union. It seems to point to the underlying fundamental difference between the way creditors and debtors think which is not too different…

Development, Economy, Government

We must learn from Greece and stop relying on the government to save us

July 13, 2015July 13, 2015 Ilda 23 Comments

A friend of mine who just came back from a three-week holiday in Greece confirmed what we have been reading in the news about how a lot of the banks in the country have closed and there was a long queue for people who wanted to get cash from the few automated teller machines that…

Development, Economy

The Hypocrisy of Philippine Media

July 12, 2015 Grimwald 5 Comments

“Grimwald, one of the things you have to remember is that the human body itself is wired to tell the truth. You can always try to hide something but, unless you’re really good at it, your body will betray you one way or another. You don’t need to tell me the truth, if you don’t want…

Culture, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society

The Philippine Media and Its Broken Sense of Morals

July 8, 2015July 11, 2015 Grimwald 74 Comments

Thank you very much Kate Natividad for another enlightening article. I also recommend you read one of the first articles I’ve written here at GRP about homosexuality and homophobia as well as one of my more recent pieces. Please take note that I’m not writing this article to judge or condemn anyone. If anything, I am writing…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Media, Society