Filipino movie and TV actors don’t know how to play rich people

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Filipino movie and TV actors don’t know how to play rich people

Many people have been wondering why Filipino films and television shows are such massive cringes. On the surface, the most obvious observation is that the emotional hooks used by the template plots of these products are overused and obsolete. Shouting matches, loud monologues, and slapstick chatter pepper stories about “love” between characters from opposite sides…

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Business, Culture, Media

CIA hijacks Philippine foreign policy

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CIA hijacks Philippine foreign policy

The Philippines is now focused on the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), with the expanded agreement covering access to an additional four Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) facilities and the expansion of an airstrip in the Balabac Island group in Palawan. It was Philippine Ambassador to the US Babe Romualdez who made the announcement,…

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Government, History, Politics

The Philippines’ return to the embrace of its former colonial master firmly secures the Second Marcos administration

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The Philippines’ return to the embrace of its former colonial master firmly secures the Second Marcos administration

Now they don’t want EDCA? Former Reuters correspondent Manny Mogato writes about the “genuine concerns from some sectors about a looming conflict in the region” in the context of the ramping up of the United States’ military presence in the Philippines within the frame of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). Mogato expresses his skepticism…

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Politics

The administration of the University of the Philippines is NOT a democracy

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The administration of the University of the Philippines is NOT a democracy

In her Inquirer piece “UP Diliman’s top-down leadership” today, columnist Anna Cristina Tuazon laments how “outside observers” are wont to “dismiss” the “passionate, sometimes chaotic expressions of [University of the Philippines (UP)] Diliman students, faculty, and staff” as “disrespectful behavior (or worse, to Red-tag them)”. She then goes on to suggest that members of this…

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Education, Media

UP Diliman “activists” who destroyed university property should be EXPELLED

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UP Diliman “activists” who destroyed university property should be EXPELLED

Want to be a true rules-based society? Then it is clear what should be done to those students of the University of the Philippines (UP) who, while protesting (or, rather, throwing a really bad temper tantrum) over the decision of the UP Board of Regents (BOR) to select UP College of Law dean Edgardo Carlo…

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Crime, Education

Should we continue to write about Leni Robredo even after she was buried in the the 2022 elections?

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Should we continue to write about Leni Robredo even after she was buried in the the 2022 elections?

Absolutely. Leni Robredo was leader of the Philippines Opposition since 2016 after her pal Mar Roxas was crushed by Rodrigo Duterte in the 2016 presidential elections. She continued to remain in Opposition campaign mode even as “vice president” from 2016 through 2022 going as far as slinging mud at the government she was part of…

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Politics

Why is Leni Robredo still in the news? Because the Philippine Opposition can’t attract REAL political talent.

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Why is Leni Robredo still in the news? Because the Philippine Opposition can’t attract REAL political talent.

Opposition “thought leaders” decry what they perceive to be a continued haranguing of “former vice president” Leni Robredo. Robredo, we recall “led” the Philippine Opposition to a crushing defeat in the 2022 presidential elections — an election that the Opposition deemed too important to lose. In actual practice, they did not seem to have considered…

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Media, Politics