The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Rather than focus on those we’ve voted into office and upon whom we’ve surrendered our future and the powers of the governed, allow us to reflect inwardly instead, if only to see in our vote the mirror image of ourselves.
Points of View & Perspectives
May, 2016
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29 May
Item #3 after name and gender: Citizenship?
Ay, Pilipino pa rin, Ate,” says, Florie, with sister, Daisy, who have lived in the same Vancouver rental apartment for the past 15 years. Theirs turn out to be the status of most caregiver-friends, too, or in stores working behind cash registers, at food courts, picking up your tray for cleaning and stacking, and in supermarkets, assisting you in self-serve …
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29 May
Aquino insensitive till the end
Not much has been heard from outgoing President Noynoy Aquino these past few days. Most of the attention of the media has been focused on the incoming Chief Executive – on his person and his pronouncements. To a large extent, the public has opted to give back to the daily grind of life and simply wait for Aquino to pack …
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29 May
Pinay student wins international award for research on anti-tumor properties of ‘malunggay’
Arianwen Ledesma Rollan, a 17-year-old Filipino student from Cebu City, has won the “First Award” given by the Qatar Foundation, Research and Development in Medical Science, for her research on the antitumor properties of malunggay (Moringa oleifera), according to Intel Corp.
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22 May
By the tongue: (Mis)adventures in food substitution
For me, and I have no doubt you would agree, it’s our untameable cravings that often lead us by the tongue to find the right ingredient, no matter what lengths we take—some reasonable, like crossing by subway or the slower bus ride the length of Manhattan from the West to get to Chinatown in the East for two bundles of …
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22 May
A Sid Ungab legacy
“Sid” is Rep. Isidro Ungab of the Third District of Davao City, the outgoing chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee of the 16th Congress.
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22 May
Seared lunchbox, other relics reveal horrors of A-bomb attack on Hiroshima
Hiroshima, Japan—As United States President Barack Obama heads for Hiroshima on a historic trip next week, expectation is growing in the western Japan city that he would visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum that houses relics that tell the stories of the people who perished in or survived the world’s first nuclear attack.
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15 May
Fearing the vice presidency
Alighting from the jam-packed bandwagon of pundits philosophizing the rationale behind the public’s vote for Rodrigo Duterte against the spurning of a compassionate presidency from Sen. Grace Poe-Llamanzares, the blank continuity from Manuel Roxas II and the proven administrative competence from Vice President Jejomar Binay, let us focus on the vice presidency and dwell on the obvious.
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15 May
The problem with fences
That fences can fend off or screen out, either way, any hint of thievery, as it turns out, proves to be an illusion. Where I live, a break-in two weeks ago at the northeast corner ground-floor suite, stirred us in the last council meeting to tackle what has been a daily heartache over rotting parts of the wooden fence—with some …
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15 May
Nation rejects Cory’s son
Last week, more than 16 million Filipinos marked Rodrigo Duterte on their ballots and elected him the country’s next President.
