The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Last week, more than 16 million Filipinos marked Rodrigo Duterte on their ballots and elected him the country’s next President.
Points of View & Perspectives
May, 2016
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15 May
Filipinos urged: Be positive as new administration assumes office
Filipinos must maintain an optimistic mindset as the country transitions from one administration to another after the conduct of presidential election this month, a Palace official said on Saturday.
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8 May
Mandate from mudslinging, money and machinery
By the time this piece gets published, voting would have been under way. It may even well be the case that the counting has begun in some places, while in others, the counting has been completed long before the precincts opened.
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8 May
Where and when change really happens
Years later, the burst of magnolias as huge as my face fails to arrest my steps. I haven’t even noticed when the blue irises, which seemed to block me to revel in a few seconds of bliss, have shriveled into brown scraps of yesterday’s beauties. And while I had bemoaned the loss of the redolent briar rose, it took me …
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8 May
Naia screeners’ appeal: Don’t judge us too harshly and too hastily
Screeners at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) are being generally pilloried as “extortionists,” as cases of bullet-planting continue to hit the news.
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1 May
From Asperger’s to narcissism and necrophilia
There’s that obvious lack of demonstrated empathy. As if he never even tried to care, choosing to ogle shiny cars over the nobler duty and responsibility to show sympathy and compassion amid profound grief caused by the stupidest exercise of patronage and partisanship that led to the death of the Mamasapano 44.
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1 May
Just a bride emoji as ‘profession’ for girls?
An apparent protest behind the “bride with veil” emoji, intimating as the only dream goal for girls, seems to have struck a profound chord with millions having clicked on the ‘Like’ button of the new video campaign “to empower girls” at #LikeAGirl, which Procter&Gamble’s Always brand launched last year.
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1 May
Who is behind Trillanes?
Barely two weeks before the general elections of 2016, senator and five-star hotel mutineer Antonio Trillanes IV is creating waves by exploding allegations against the frontrunner in the presidential race.
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1 May
Globe’s Binondo initiative
Globe Telecom’s Binondo initiative reflects the company’s innovative focus on its business game, the reason it continues to be viewed with enthusiasm by market analysts. That Binondo initiative, whereby the Ayala-led company is leading off its nationwide fiber broadband technology roll-out in Binondo, the heart of Chinatown in the metropolis, shows a compelling business narrative about Globe’s future.
