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Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
-Matthew 7:13-14
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Continue Reading →The ADB now thinks that industrial upgrading and diversification are not only desirable but also very much doable. Why indeed should the Philippines, a labor-intensive assembler of electronics for four decades, remain a labor-intensive assembler of electronics in the next four decades?
Continue Reading →The saber-rattling the Chinese are doing in the West Philippine Sea is no different from its national pride in taking its place on the stars or sending a Chinese man on the moon. It is symbolic of superpower status, and one that China covets the most: to be seen as an equal to the West, and perhaps be better.
Continue Reading →That seems to be the label which the instigators of ‘memogate’ want to attach to the Vice President Jejomar Binay.
As the 2013 race for the senate heats up, members of the rival faction within the Palace opposing Jojo Binay have leaked a confidential memo he wrote to the president concerning a case involving corruption [...]
Continue Reading →According to the Asian Development Bank, the Philippines needs to beef up its industrial policy if it is to achieve rapid and inclusive growth.
Taking the right road to inclusive growth, the report that Norio Usui penned is chock full of evidence in support of this position. The ADB has added its voice [...]
Continue Reading →Even Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines, calls Communist China’s claim to Panatag Shoal a historical absurdity:
“Chinese historical claims since ancient times amount to an absurdity as this would be like Italy claiming as its sovereign possession all areas previously occupied by the Roman Empire.”
The Department [...]
Continue Reading →How the principle of “shared destiny” shapes the way voters behave.
In the West, identity politics is often equated with minority interests. Barack Obama in 2008 won the presidential contest by refusing to campaign as a black candidate the way the Rev Jesse Jackson had attempted before him. Hillary Rodham Clinton on the other hand [...]
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There’s been a standoff at the Scarborough Shoal for about a week now, between Chinese and Philippine vessels.
Continue Reading →Estrada and BInay were running mates in 2010, Estrada forgot to vote for Binay and Binay forgot to campaign for Estrada. But that’s water under the bridge now. 2013 is prelude to 2016 and the two politicians decided that by banding together they will be able to achieve their political goals. Estrada wants one of [...]
Continue Reading →- Metro Cebu – December 18, 2011
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