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Who are PNoy’s Reliable Candidates?

On April 29, 2013 By Filomeno S. Sta Ana III

Manila Bulletin is not the first choice for a Philippine newspaper. It can be boring, and it suffers from its image of being associated with the pro-martial law brand of journalism. But being a humdrum paper also has an advantage: It reports without sensationalism, which the leading dailies are prone to. It thus pays to [...]

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Trapo Alert! Detecting political pandering, part 6

On April 23, 2013 By Doy Santos aka The Cusp

Featuring Grace Poe, Eddie Villanueva and Richard Gordon.

This is the sixth part in a series on the candidates for the senate in 2013. Just a recap: I am attempting through this series to have a serious discussion of the aspirants and their political platforms (or lack thereof). These are put through [...]

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It’s More Fun (With More Jobs and Income) in the Philippines

On April 21, 2013 By The ProPinoy Project

“Tourism is not about the number of foreigners visiting our country, but rather the jobs and businesses we create for the Filipino people.” This was the guiding principle and vision shared by President Benigno S. Aquino III to Ramon R. Jimenez, Jr upon his appointment as Department of Tourism Secretary. Since then, the Secretary has [...]

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Indentured athletes

On April 19, 2013 By Manuel Buencamino

Bad day for athletes who transfer from one UAAP member school to another. They will have to sit through the two year residency requirement that the UAAP board of trustees imposed on them. Note that it is the UAAP board and not the receiving school that imposes residency on a transferee. That makes all the [...]

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Boston

On April 16, 2013 By Cocoy

I woke up like I always do: pick up my phone to check messages. It was a surprise that greeted me. Like many on my timeline who opened twitter for the first time that day, we were all greeted by the horrible tragedy that unfolded in Boston. Boston would always have a special place in [...]

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Trapo Alert! Detecting political pandering, part 5

On April 16, 2013 By Doy Santos aka The Cusp

Featuring Teddy Casiño, Democratic Party of the Philippines and Ang Kapitiran candidates.

This is the fifth part in a series on the candidates for the senate in 2013. Just a recap: I am attempting through this series to have a serious discussion of the aspirants and their political platforms (or lack [...]

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Long overdue: Bureau of Customs abolition

On April 13, 2013 By Doy Santos aka The Cusp

So, this morning’s banner story in the Philippine Daily Inquirer reads: Bureau of Customs abolition planned.

Who’s planning it? Malacañang. Who is proposing it? Embattled Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon. That’s right, the head of the agency itself who has been under the pump for failing to curb the rampant smuggling [...]

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Trapo Alert! Detecting political pandering, part 4

On April 9, 2013 By Doy Santos aka The Cusp

Featuring Gringo Honasan, Ernesto Maceda and Migz Zubiri.

This is the fourth part in a series on the candidates for the senate in 2013. Just a recap: I am attempting through this series to have a serious discussion of the aspirants and their political platforms (or lack thereof). These are put through [...]

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Can you mount a social media political campaign with just one million pesos?

On April 7, 2013 By Cocoy

TJ Manotoc was kind enough to invite me to an interview to talk about social media political campaigns. One of the best reactions I got were from digital media experts like Carlo Ople and Noemi Dado. The biggest gripe was the number of one million pesos to run a social media campaign. [...]

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File the case and move on

On April 1, 2013 By Manuel Buencamino

Over the Holy Week, Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda announced that the president was going to study Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s legal brief on the Sabah claim.

According to De Lima the main considerations of her legal brief are, “Is the claim strong or not and should it be pursued before an appropriate tribunal, [...]

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