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The Thai experience (or why P-Noy <3 Yingluck shouldn’t be the headline)

On January 22, 2012 By

The Philippines it seems is engulfed in all things Hollywood at the moment. With the filming of the Bourne Legacy taking place in Manila filling the nightly news with human interest stories surrounding both actors and extras, another “courtroom drama” was unfolding in the Senate with the [...]

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SWS: Public is with PNoy, not Team Corona nor Team Gloria

On December 27, 2011 By

What’s clear is this. First, media doesn’t seem to clearly capture public sentiment. And second, Public sentiment is on the side of government.

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Boring is Better!

On December 22, 2011 By

“May you live in interesting times.” – Chinese curse

As the cab my family and I had booked sped from the Changi airport where we had landed from Australia towards our resort at Sentosa Island for a couple of days of R and R, before heading to Manila, [...]

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Jacob disputes NCCA claims on her removal as Exec. Director

On December 15, 2011 By

Malou Jacob disputed the explanation of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts regarding her removal from office.

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Tilting at Windmills

On December 15, 2011 By

Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see over yonder, [...]

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The Business of Corruption

On December 13, 2011 By

Many talk about the culture of corruption. It has been called a cancer that eats away at the fabric of society by the religious and the secular alike. I have likened it to the multi-headed hydra in Greek mythology, irrepressible.

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Like a Thief in the Night

On December 3, 2011 By

That is not how the government acted in seeking to put Mrs Gloria Arroyo behind bars. Rather than keep the former president guessing as to the date when formal charges against her would be laid, President Aquino announced back in September what the timetable for it would be. [...]

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The halo effect

On November 29, 2011 By

The halo effect is a cognitive bias first studied by Edward Thorndike in 1920 whereby the perception of one trait (i.e. a characteristic of a person or object) is influenced by the perception of another trait (or several traits) of that person or object. An example would be judging a good-looking person [...]

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They’re Baaaaaaack!

On November 16, 2011 By

In uncharacteristically blunt language, US President Obama as host of the APEC summit in Hawaii called on China to act like a “grown up” saying “enough is enough” and that it was time for the People’s Republic to “operate by the same rules that everybody operates” [...]

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The Tyrrany of Cousins

On October 27, 2011 By

Altruism towards other people of the same blood-line is widely practiced and literally embedded in our DNA. The Hamilton Rule named after the British evolutionary biologist William Hamilton states that we are pre-disposed to behave altruistically to those with with whom we share [...]

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