5 contributions from the media towards a sensible drug war
The Duterte era is really here and it’s difficult not to notice the changes. Obviously, many of these changes have been highly contentious, particularly when...
Rich kids to get free tuition courtesy of poor Muslim families
The re-distribution in the 2017 budget of Php8 billion worth of funds from poor Muslim communities to provide free tuition to state university students constitutes...
The ASEAN community 2025 vision: What is in it for me?
What do the citizens think of the Asean 2015 ...
Isn’t it ironic? Trump saving PH-US ties, Duterte’s battle against oligarchs, guilt by groufie (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part 1 Guilt by picture taking This week the Senate conducted a hearing on the death of Mayor Espinosa (allegedly a case of...
Isn’t it ironic? Trump saving PH-US ties, Duterte’s battle against oligarchs, guilt by groufie (Part 1 of 2)
Trump’s win appears to have softened Duterte’s stance towards the US. There’s no running out of ironies in the Philippines, especially when it comes to...
4RHome: A holistic program to provide free formation houses for drug dependents nationwide
At a recent lunch gathering last November 30, 2016, several of the Cabinet spouses, along with some of the Metro Manila mayors’ spouses, as...
Millennials: From ‘couch potatoes’ to street warriors; from Katipunan to Luneta (Part 2)
To read Part 1 of this article, click here. But it was still raining. Would the students come? They did! Slowly the area...
Millennials: From ‘couch potatoes’ to street warriors; from Katipunan to Luneta (Part 1)
MILLENNIALS. Deserving or not, millennials have oftentimes been placed into a box and labeled. This article juxtaposes the average millennial between their good and not...
The millennial candlelights at the Marcos Hero’s burial protest
MILLENNIAL CANDLELIGHTS: Cellphone flashlights stood for the candlelights lit in protest of the impending martial law – Venzie Crisostomo Tayo ang liwanag sa dilim Ang...
A peek in the sex scandal laden world of teens?
This month is unusual in terms of the messages I received from recipients of negative online experience. Well because it involve minors, voyeurism and sex...
Tools and strategies to determine fake news, half-truths, from real news
There are tools and strategies to determine fake news from real news. It is crucial for social media users to triple check sources and fact...
Ending endo: Keeping the promise
It looks like DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment) is serious in ensuring companies are compliant to the existing labor regulations. I have a client...
Hazard resilient agriculture practices in the Philippines
One of the news item that caught my attention a few weeks ago was the prediction of scientists that 2017 would be hotter than 2016:...
Trump: Populism and Isolationism
Along with my fellow bloggers Noemi Lardizabale-Dado and Jane Uymatiao we watched the US Election at a viewing party hosted by the United States Embassy...
Social Media Part 2: Defense against the dark digital arts
In Part 1, We took a look at the Internet and Social Media. Who owns it? The story of the Little Red Rooster illustrates that...