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Filipinos Who Changed Citizenship Still Have a Say on their Homeland

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Filipinos Who Changed Citizenship Still Have a Say on their Homeland

The OFW phenomenon has yielded some complicated situations. For example, there are Filipinos who have renounced their citizenship and become citizens of other countries. Yet they share some views and criticisms about their home countries. Other Filipinos brand them as traitors, because they have left their country for a better life and supposedly abandoning their…

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Society

What to expect from the July 22, 2013 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Noynoy Aquino

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What to expect from the July 22, 2013 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Noynoy Aquino

In the next couple of weeks on the 22nd July 2013, Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III will once again face a joint session of Congress to deliver his annual State of the Nation Address (SONA). What will BS Aquino be reporting to the people’s “representatives” this time? This one will be a tough…

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Development, Politics

The US debt ceiling crisis: How the world’s mightiest nation may run out of money this week

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The US debt ceiling crisis: How the world’s mightiest nation may run out of money this week

Anytime between the the 3rd and the 10th of August this year, 2011, the government of the United States of America may run out of money. The estimates vary depending on who is doing the reckoning — the White House, Wall Street hacks — but either way, as with most things associated with going broke…

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Economy, Government, Politics

Facts and figures: President Noynoy Aquino’s promises by the numbers

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Facts and figures: President Noynoy Aquino’s promises by the numbers

Politicians are quick to grandstand about their achievements and their “contributions” to the development of our wretched land, the Philippines. Whenever statistics about the economy or survey results describing public sentiment is released, politicians will go on a media blitz to ensure that an association between these and themselves are implanted in the vacuous minds…

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Development, Economy, Politics

Filipinos too can build weapons of mass destruction

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Filipinos too can build weapons of mass destruction

Here’s an income-generating idea that aligns beautifully with a natural Filipino cultural predisposition. A report published on The Telegraph tells of how the New South Wales (Australia) Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) recently issued a letter to a certain Ms Kristen Perry requiring her to cite “just cause” for continued use of personal license plates…

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