Tag: singapore

Filipinos can only keep romanticizing about what Singapore has succeeded at DOING

August 9, 2016August 9, 2016 FallenAngel 24 Comments

The year 2015 was both a significant marker in the history of our Southeast Asian neighbor Singapore. It was the year of both the fiftieth anniversary of its founding as a nation (August 9), and the year Lee Kuan Yew (LKY), widely considered its founding father, died (March 23). Therefore, starting this year, 2016, Singapore…

Culture, Development, Economy, Politics, Society

#Brexit is an opportunity for Britain to re-learn what it means to be British

June 24, 2016June 25, 2016 benign0 69 Comments

Democracy is a bitch when it doesn’t go your way. That’s pretty much the sentiment New Age mouthpieces in corporate media and the broader community of hipsters who parrot the politically-correct taglines of people “outraged” by the British vote to leave the European Union today (trending in social media under the hashtag #Brexit). One commentator…

Culture, Economy, Society

Like Rodrigo Duterte, Singapore’s late PM Lee Kuan Yew also spoke about Philippine media’s failures

June 4, 2016October 12, 2021 Ilda 23 Comments

It has been a busy few weeks for members of Philippine media. Their love affair with incoming President Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte seems to have ended abruptly. Some members of local and even foreign media have called on their colleagues to boycott covering Duterte until he apologises for his remarks about media killings. Apparently,…

Development, Media, Politics

Changes to Expect Under a Duterte Government

May 4, 2016 zaxx 71 Comments

Change is finally coming folks. People are feeling once again the euphoria of a new beginning – something like the crisp cool freshness in the air when it’s the final week of classes before the Christmas and New Year holidays begin, or the feeling of moving into a new school, job, house or city. It’s…

Charter Change, Crime, Development, Government, Politics

Wanted: Super-Janitor for President

April 22, 2016 zaxx 57 Comments

After that barrage of “Duterte” articles posted by my fellow contributors, I guess it’s time for a “commercial break.” Comelec, the biggest Job Search service in town, wishes to inform the public that they are looking for a promising applicant to take on a very critical role as President of the Republic of the Philippines….

Development, Environment, Government, Politics, Society

Some Thoughts Spurred by the LGBT Discussion

February 22, 2016September 30, 2017 ChinoF 11 Comments

Manny Pacquiao stirred a hornet’s nest with what he said, but I’ll not talk about him, as he could have been used as a distraction from the discovery of a certain young lady receiving nearly P6 million annual salary from the SSS. But the issue did inspire some random thoughts and allowed me to resume…

Culture

Concrete Evidence of Filipino Unbridled Urban Development

January 17, 2016January 17, 2016 zaxx 11 Comments

Filipinos are madly in love – as in hard core. In this chapter of our analysis of Filipino dysfunction, let’s touch on the Filipino’s love affair with concrete. If there’s one thing OFWs will pour their hard-earned money into – it’s gonna be cement, truckloads of it! Why not? Well, development from the Filipino perspective…

Development, Environment

Discipline Should Come from Within

December 26, 2015 ChinoF 16 Comments

My fellow writers here in GRP have explained that someone iron-handed like Rody Duterte has become popular for the wrong reasons (or maybe the right reasons, but in the wrong way). Duterte is seen as a figure like Ferdinand Marcos, who is thought to have enforced order through harshness in Martial Law. There are people…

Culture