Category: Economy

AirAsia one-ups ‘bouncy’ Cebu Pacific flight attendants

February 7, 2012June 4, 2013 benign0 4 Comments

Southeast Asia’s biggest budget airline is set to open its Philippine operations following the recent approval of its air operator certificate (AOC) by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). AirAsia Philippines will be operating out of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in the former United States Air Force base in Clark Field, Angeles…

Economy, Glitz and Glamour

Impeachment and looming bank runs: Is economic plunder the real agenda of the Second Aquino Administration?

February 7, 2012February 7, 2012 benign0 29 Comments

Looks like the venerable Philippine Savings Bank (PS Bank) is the next hapless chump thrust into the circus spotlight. In the usual tradition of the way the prosecution habitually pre-empts any court order to authorise any of its police activities, an “envelope” delivered by a shadowy “small lady” allegedly containing Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato…

Crime, Economy, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Niel Tupas Jr gets the boot, Hacienda Luisita shares up!

February 6, 2012February 6, 2012 benign0 12 Comments

Well, not really. Hacienda Luisita Inc (HLI) is not a publicly-listed company and therefore we can only do thought experiments on how the price of some hypothetical HLI shares floating in the equity market would react to the news of Iloilo Representative Niel Tupas Jr’s removal as head of the prosecution team in the impeachment…

Economy, Government, Politics

Malacañang to GMA: PNoy’s popularity is better than your economic growth rate

January 14, 2012July 16, 2013 Ilda 98 Comments

I was anticipating what Budget Secretary, Florencio Abad would have to say about former President Gloria Arroyo’s (GMA’s) “It’s The Economy, Student!”, a paper about her achievements during her nine years in office. But I ended up laughing so hard after reading that the only thing Abad had to say was that President Noynoy Aquino…

Development, Economy, Politics

Gloriaâ€™s Schizophrenic Economy

January 14, 2012January 14, 2012 BenK 19 Comments

Because the job performance, leadership, and general behavior of the current President is so appalling I think those of us who make a hobby or an actual living of punditry tend to forget that there was a time, not really all that long ago, when his predecessor was every bit the inspirational target for scathing…

Economy, Politics

It’s the economy, student! – by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

January 13, 2012May 6, 2016 benign0 75 Comments

The following is a copy of the essay ‘It’s the economy, student!’ written by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during her house recuperation, re-hospitalization and hospital detention from October to December 2011. * * * IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUDENT! By Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, PhD [I wrote this article on and off in my spare time during…

Economy, Government, Money Talks, Politics

Why we don’t need to emphasize that it’s more fun in the Philippines

January 7, 2012January 7, 2012 Ilda 225 Comments

The newly unveiled tourism slogan â€œItâ€™s more fun in the Philippinesâ€ by the Department of Tourism (DOT) received mixed reactions from Filipinos. First, the lack of originality was again highlighted after social networking pundits discovered that Switzerland used the exact same slogan in 1951. What shocked and annoyed some Filipinos is that similar accusations of…

Development, Economy, Lifestyle, Media

It’s more fun in the Philippines

January 6, 2012 benign0 80 Comments

Sorry. This is going to be another article that breaches the let’s-not-go-there-please barrier. Fasten your seatbelts. I find it a bit distasteful that we’d be celebrating what a supposedly “fun” place the Philippines is. So I heard today; It’s more fun in the Philippines. That’s the new tourism slogan recently unveiled by the Philippines’ Department…

Development, Economy, Environment, Lifestyle, Media