Category: Development

Borderline criminal: Contribution of Manila’s public buses to traffic congestion

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Borderline criminal: Contribution of Manila’s public buses to traffic congestion

Traffic flow on Metro Manila’s main arteries is routinely being jammed by public utility buses loading and unloading indiscriminately in the middle of the road. This is one of the obvious problems plaguing the country that Filipinos are seemingly too stupid to do anything about. We tolerate public utility buses loading and unloading indiscriminately in…

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Crime, Development, Society

Gilas Pilipinas and the Filipinos’ continuous tradition of ZERO results inspiration

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Gilas Pilipinas and the Filipinos’ continuous tradition of ZERO results inspiration

As I write this, the Philippine men’s national basketball team, better known as Gilas Pilipinas, has just won against Kazakhstan in the 2014 Asian Games basketball tournament currently being held in Incheon, South Korea. According to reports, however, Gilas needed to win by eleven (11) points in order to advance to the semifinal round. They…

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Culture, Development, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

Filipinos should address the Philippines’ negative image by fixing its problems

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Filipinos should address the Philippines’ negative image by fixing its problems

Are Filipinos more concerned about projecting a positive image to the international community rather than finding a solution to the negative images that keep finding their way into the hands of international news media organizations? It would seem so. This was evident when a lot of Filipinos felt outraged and demanded an apology from a…

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Development, Economy, Government, Media

Climate change activism: mere farts in the wind

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Climate change activism: mere farts in the wind

Another United Nations (UN) climate summit, another bunch of promises. Has the UN really been an effective body in efforts to mitigate the worst of humanity’s many scourges that Planet Earth suffers? Considering that China is, today, the single biggest producer of “greenhouse gases”, the role the UN plays in an effort to curb emissions…

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Development, Economy, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Science, Society

Wretched Philippine-style poverty is actually quite normal

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Wretched Philippine-style poverty is actually quite normal

It doesn’t take much to remind Filipinos of their poverty. The problem, however, is that these reminders almost always have to come from external entities. And within this month alone we enjoyed the privilege of two stark reminders, Typhoon Mario and that Aegis Global viral video that the Philippine government is now desperately trying to…

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Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society

The futility of begging for foreign investment when your country sucks

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The futility of begging for foreign investment when your country sucks

Recent events have, yet again, highlighted the embarrassing way with which Filipinos and the government they elected to lead them are desperately scrambling to extricate themselves from systemic poverty after decades of misguided “development” approaches and serial promise breaking. Like many many previous presidents before him, Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III went on…

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Culture, Development, Environment, Government, Politics, Society

Aegis video pits Malaysia’s infrastructure versus the Philippines’ in bid to attract BPO business!

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Aegis video pits Malaysia’s infrastructure versus the Philippines’ in bid to attract BPO business!

It seems the Philippines has been singled out by a company in Malaysia as its single biggest competitor for investment in the region. A promotional video produced by a Aegis Malaysia, a global business process outsourcing (BPO) company makes a pitch to its clients to locate their BPO needs in Malaysia by highlighting that country’s…

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Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Money Talks

Deja vu all over again as Typhoon Mario’s devastation of Metro Manila mirrors Ondoy’s in 2009

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Deja vu all over again as Typhoon Mario’s devastation of Metro Manila mirrors Ondoy’s in 2009

Today may as well have been a day in September 2009 when Typhoon Ondoy struck and devastated Manila. Back then I wrote about the Philippine government’s utter failure to step up and provide relief to hundreds of thousands of its victims (a failure to be repeated many more times since), and how Metro Manilans pretty…

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Civics, Development, Environment, Government