Scapegoating
"We must learn to call out—in stronger voices—the neglect, ineptitude and indifference of whoever pulls the levers of government." In a moment of epiphany, the...
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Our ‘heroes’ fund
"There must be a better way to treat our OFWs." As I write this piece, more than 4,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are stranded...
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Stocks retreated Thursday as renewed fears the US Federal Reserve will lift interest rates next week sent most markets into...
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BTI Payments, owner and deployer of the Pay&Go network of payment kiosks, is widening its nationwide coverage through planned regional...
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Factory output grew faster in April as the continued slowdown in inflation triggered more production activities. Latest data from the...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission approved the P50-billion bond shelf-registration program of property developer Ayala Land Inc. It said in...
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Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla on Thursday vowed to upgrade and modernize the country's transmission and distribution lines to support an...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.