The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
By Hananeel C. Bordey The world’s largest cleft charity celebrated World Smile Day in honor of the people who contributed to their cause and helped change the lives of children born with untreated clefts in the Philippines last October 5 at I’M Hotel, Makati City.
Points of View & Perspectives
October, 2017
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15 October
Net satisfaction guaranteed
By Allan Mediante While the President’s net satisfaction rating from June 2017 to September 2017 dropped in the Visayas, Luzon, and in Metro Manila, it remained steady here in Mindanao.
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9 October
After Jinggoy, will Bong and Janet be free soon?
After Jinggoy, will Bong and Janet be free soon?
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9 October
Two decades of onerous water deals
By Water for the People Network The 20th anniversary of the privatization of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) in August was considered a milestone by privatization proponents.
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9 October
Asean fuels success in the region
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has significantly helped its member-states achieve economic progress, a Vietnamese senior economic official said.
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1 October
Andy Bautista gets one-year reprieve
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista can now heave a sigh of relief, at least for one year, after the Committee on Justice of the House of Representatives dismissed the impeachment complaint filed against him for being insufficient in form.
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1 October
Federalism may worsen inequality—PIDS forum
A shift to federalism at this time could worsen regional inequality given the existing highly imbalanced and inequitable political and economic development among regions, provinces, and cities across the country.
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1 October
Thinktank calls Du30 tax package as Train to nowhere
Among the hype the Department of Finance (DOF) uses regarding the government’s tax reform package is how taxes paid by the poor will go back to them in the form of infrastructure projects and social services. The reality however is that the taxes will go largely to big-ticket infrastructure projects in and around the National Capital Region (NCR) that the …
September, 2017
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24 September
House blinks
As we write this piece, media reported that the House of Representatives has partially restored the Commission on Human Rights’ (CHR) budget for 2018.
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24 September
The Senate fluke
By Jun Ledesma I find it rather odd that tattoos and bank deposits will have any relevance to the Senate investigation on a P6.4-billion drug shipment, part of which had been recovered in Bulacan. Odder still is the attempt of Senator Antonio Trillanes to impute that (Davao City) Vice Mayor Paolo “Pulong” Duterte and brod-in-law Mans Carpio have influence over …