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Points of View & Perspectives

December, 2015

  • 13 December

    The battle for the 700-megahertz frequency

    There is an interesting tug- of -war between telco giants Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and Globe Telecom, on one hand, and upcoming telco entrant San Miguel Corp. in partnership with Telstra of Australia, on the other, that concerns the allocation of an important band that is deemed crucial to Internet penetration. 

  • 13 December

    Fast-forwarding Mar Roxas’ decline

    The latest poll conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is leading the current field of aspirants in terms of voters’ choice for the next president of the country. 

  • 13 December

    Asia’s coastal cities face challenge of rising seas

    New Delhi— The future will be a watery one for some of the world’s biggest cities. 

  • 6 December

    Understanding the credit-outlook downgrade

    Given the lengthening record of ineptitude and the dreaded possibility that bungling incompetence would accelerate and continue well into the next presidential term, with one candidate capitalizing on the present and promising to pursue more or less the same deal that Benigno Aquino III has been inflicting on us, the news of a recent downgrade from one of the most …

  • 6 December

    PNoy should look into PDIC shenanigans

    President Aquino needs to look into what looks like Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) shenanigans as the policy wonks at the government bank receiver have displayed a remarkable difference in their handling of shuttered banks or those with huge government bailouts. The President, who has a firm grasp of economics, needs to ask just a few questions from the officials …

  • 6 December

    Social media, the new megaphone for violent perpetrators

    Palo alto, California— Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in last week’s Southern California mass shooting, has another claim to notoriety: She’s the latest in a growing line of extremists and disturbed killers who have used social media to punctuate their horrific violence. 

  • 6 December

    The 11 countries that haven’t made pledges for climate deal

    By Karl Ritter / The Associated Press Le bourget, France— Some are at war, others recovering from natural disasters and some are simply ideologically opposed to the climate deal taking shape in United Nation (UN) talks outside Paris. 

  • 4 December

    How do you solve a problem like Mar Roxas?

    We can only commiserate with the campaign strategists of former Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, who is now the Liberal Party standard-bearer.

  • 3 December

    Troubling PDIC goings-on

    There are troubling goings-on at the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) that we learned about in connection with the closure of a thrift bank, Unitrust Development Bank, and they speak of an important cog in the Philippines financial sector going awry. And that is quite troubling.

  • 3 December

    A postmortem on Apec

    It’s over. They’ve left and the traffic and street dwellers are back. One airline is facing a multi-million peso damage suit, another, millions more in dollar-denominated unrecoverable losses. Kris has her tan and her brother, his two-day P10- billion learning experience – a tax-paid tuition the equivalent of capitalizing several world-class universities.