We beg to differ.
Looks like one of the last big frontiers of the Filipino migrant has pretty much shut its doors to a big chunk of Filipino humankind. Reportedly ruling that Filipino domestic workers are not “ordinarily residents” in the territory and that they temporarily reside there under contracts that tie them to “finite stints of temporary employment,”…
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The much-awaited Easter holidays are coming up. In the Philippines they call it “Holy Week” presumably because over the several days that make up that “week”, people are supposed to reflect upon the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the events leading up to it as documented in the New Testament. One of…
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How do people kill themselves? According to Wikipedia: “Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, “to kill oneself”) is the act of intentionally causing one’s own deathâ€. The following are the usual reasons and often quoted factors given, why an individual commits suicide: “…is committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse. Pressures or misfortunes such…
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Fledgling entry into budget travel business in the Philippines, AirAsia Philippines is currently feeling the heat as Filipino Tausugs wage a guerrilla war in the Malaysian state of Sabah. This is in the aftermath of the spread of publicity shots depicting its planes transporting Malaysian troops to the battle front in early March. The online…
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I refer to the article of Seah Chiang Nee, “Happiness is not for saleâ€, (Insight Down South, The Star Saturday, October 27). I overwhelmingly concur to his central observation that: “Singaporeans continue to find that prosperity and joy are not identical, or even compatible.†I also agree with the Workers Party Chairman Sylvia Lim in…
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It’s been more than a week since the Oscars and more than a couple of weeks since I’ve seen two of some of the most talked about movies of the year. Two weeks, and I am Still Les Miserable over Argo. Having seen both Les Mis and Argo, I would’ve thought that Les Mis would’ve…
They are always being accused by the establishment as the under-miners of the system! They are mockingly referred to as either the fool on the hill or the solitary hermit in the forest, the madmen, the cave-men, the lone voices in the wilderness, the reclusive fellow in the urban jungle, the poet without a pen,…
Pity all the Yahoos out there. After a good stretch of living the illusion that life as an employee in a (formerly) trendy dot-com company is a beach, a “bitch” of a boss comes around and bursts their bubble. In a move that had since set “work-life balance” advocates abuzz with angry chatter, new Yahoo!…