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Mar Roxas will not allow divorce and does not favour same sex marriage

February 2, 2016February 3, 2022 benign0 10 Comments

Liberal Party candidate Mar Roxas is certainly in the habit of making not only unfounded statements, but incomplete ones. On his televised interview with veteran journalist Mel Tiangco, Roxas bared his opposition to legalising divorce and same-sex marriage. Although he quoted some cliché platitude about the family being the foundation of society to substantiate his…

Culture, Lifestyle, Politics

Mar Roxas’s campaign promises NOTHING to the Filipino people

February 2, 2016 benign0 12 Comments

Generations of Filipino politicians have paid lip service to the idea that Filipinos deserve an egalitarian society and that the it is unjust that vast wealth be in the hands of so few. It has become a template campaign promise during election season for politicians to issue promises to “eliminate poverty” and dismantle the monopoly…

Development, Economy, Politics

Al Jazeera video ‘Begging for Life’ features roundup of beggars during APEC Summit in Manila

February 2, 2016 benign0 7 Comments

Al Jazeera features in its ‘People and Power’ programme the video clip Begging for Life, a look into the lives of street children who make a living begging on the streets of Manila. The video is noteworthy because it captured eyewitness accounts of the roundup of street urchins conducted by the Philippine government in and…

Civics, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Netizen slams PNoy’s views on OFWs in viral ‘open letter’ posted on Facebook

February 1, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

A note posted by Facebook user Lesley Dianne Siojo Cabildo containing “an open letter” to Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III is going viral. The letter accompanied a meme originally posted by Cabildo on the 24th August 2015. The meme (pictured below) quoted the following statement supposedly made by the president: Filipinos leave their…

Development, Economy

Next Philippine president should cut Ph dependence on easy OFW money

February 1, 2016 benign0 33 Comments

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) rock. They number in the millions and, collectively, are the bedrock of the Philippine economy. They account for up to 10 percent of the value of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and fuel the massive expansion of the Philippines’ retail and entertainment industries. But the question most often asked about…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

3 Things That Are Missing In Many Filipino Men Today

January 31, 2016 Grimwald 8 Comments

After reading Ms. Ilda’s latest article about Pia Wurtzbach’s search for a boyfriend, I can assume that there are now hundreds, if not thousands, of Filipino men out there who are rushing to queue up for a chance to be her lucky man. Unfortunately, I don’t think she’ll easily be able to find one that’s…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Sideways

January 31, 2016February 1, 2016 P. Farol 5 Comments

We’re a country of people going sideways, or so it seems. It would have been great if Noynoy Aquino truly represented the straight (and narrow) path because his rise to the presidency could perhaps be taken as some sign that a significant number of Filipinos have actually wised up. Thing is, neither Noynoy nor most…