Incompetent CCTV Contractor Causes Water Service Interruption in 35 Barangays

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Incompetent CCTV Contractor Causes Water Service Interruption in 35 Barangays

A contractor hired by a government agency to install a  CCTV network was said to have caused the massive water service interruption affecting 35 barangays in the cities of Mandaluyong, San Juan, Pasig, and Quezon City. According to a statement from Manila Water, this is the sixth time that the contractor damaged one of its…

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Government

Elections are just around the corner and the Opposition are still PRAYING for Duterte’s death

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Elections are just around the corner and the Opposition are still PRAYING for Duterte’s death

Goes to show that there is no sincerity in the Opposition’s regard for the future of the Filipino people. Rather than work on something constructive in the lead up to the 2022 elections (like coming up with a forward-looking platform), they remain hopelessly fixated on taking lame potshots at Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Hey we…

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Politics

Filipinos are no experts on what it means to be Christian — or Unchristian

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Filipinos are no experts on what it means to be Christian — or Unchristian

The buzz of the week among the hoi polloi of the Philippines’ chattering classes is Malacanang spokesman Harry Roque. Roque who recently contracted COVID-19 managed to get himself admitted into hospital despite a long queue as Metro Manila’s decrepit health care infrastructure creaks under the weight of an enormous number of infections. Facing criticism for…

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Religion

How to be happy in a time of COVID-19 lockdown

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How to be happy in a time of COVID-19 lockdown

The biggest challenge facing Filipinos nowadays is how to stay sane under a pandemic lockdown. Filipinos are suffering among the most severe restrictions to their movements in the world as well as facing the prospect of several more months of uncertainty around whether or not the spread of COVID-19 will be under control soon. Indeed,…

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Lifestyle, Politics

Why is the Philippines always BEGGING for stuff?

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Why is the Philippines always BEGGING for stuff?

The Philippines begs just like a scorpion stings. That’s just what the Philippines does. It begs. It begs for “foreign investment”. It begs for foreign “aid”. Begs for loans. Begs for military support. Begs for military equipment. Begs for International Criminal Court intervention. Begs for foreign employment. Begs for rice. Begs for tourists. Begs for…

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Culture, Development

The Philippines was a crisis waiting to happen even before COVID-19 struck

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The Philippines was a crisis waiting to happen even before COVID-19 struck

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed humankind’s long-ignored exposure to the risk of virulent diseases running wild and severely impacting the world order. It all but levelled the playing field. People from both rich and poor countries were not spared from the disease’s harmful, and in a lot of cases, deadly effects on the human body….

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Development, Society

How celebrity culture in Philippine “journalism” DAMAGED Filipinos

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How celebrity culture in Philippine “journalism” DAMAGED Filipinos

Take stock of the landscape of “thought leaders” in Philippine society and a large proportion of these would consist of so-called “journalists”. To be fair, this is a profession of people who are in their element writing stuff. But by no means are “good writers” connected with big media brands entitled to monopolise an important…

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Media

When Anne Curtis-Smith asks “What’s the plan?” EVERYONE pays attention.

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When Anne Curtis-Smith asks “What’s the plan?” EVERYONE pays attention.

Filipinos have been on edge lately as the daily average number of confirmed COVID-19 infections has been breaching 10,000 the last several days. With hospitals bursting at the seams and lockdowns over the foreseeable future casting a grim pall over people’s lifestyles and livelihoods, people are looking for comfort and answers. Popular Australia-born starlet Anne…

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Glitz and Glamour, Government