The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (Caap) organized recently the first-ever Philippine Aviation Summit that gathered the various stakeholders in the local civil-aviation industry.
Points of View & Perspectives
October, 2015
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5 October
Would that the Philippines pull the likes of ‘Aling’ Norma and ‘Mang’ Joe out of peripheral shadows
End-of-season deep discounts on summer clothes as autumn creeps in have triggered in me wishful thinking again about Aling Norma’s itinerant home-service hemming and alteration services in Pureza, Sta. Mesa, where we used to live.
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5 October
Rights group: Filipino child miners risk lives in gold mines
By Teresa Cerojano / The Associated Press Thousands of Filipino children, some as young as 9 years old, risk their lives by working in illegal, small-scale gold mines under terrifying conditions and the government has not done enough to protect them, a human- rights group said last Wednesday.
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5 October
Letting Grace be Grace
Barely a week before the official filing of the certificates of candidacy, politicians of all stripes are scrambling to cobble together their respective groups that, hopefully, would be most palatable to voters by the time elections roll around in May next year.
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5 October
Obama challenges Clinton, other 2016 candidates on Syria
By Julie Pace / The Associated Press Washington—United States President Barack Obama accused White House hopefuls of concocting “half-baked” ideas for solving the crisis in Syria, appearing to even dismiss his former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s call for a no-fly zone before later clarifying his view of the Democratic frontrunner.
September, 2015
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27 September
Traffic, tempers and tantrums
Indulge us a bit of road rage. We’ve decided to surrender and succumb to the tempestuous rage that builds up whenever we hit Metropolitan Manila’s streets. Allow us to hitch a ride on the bandwagon by adding to the congestion of criticism and streetwise analyses rushing in from the commuting public on how to tackle the traffic problem.
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27 September
‘Indonesian? Chinese? Malaysian? Thai?’
It’s baffling how our looks sometimes pin us down to the wrong map, which could turn out to be a good thing—like getting two turkey slices at a recent buffet where friends and I strayed into in Atlantic City.
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27 September
The ‘prostituted’ Automated Election Law
By Rod ‘Inky’ Reyes I am ominously aghast that regardless of how seemingly attractive automated elections are, the intent and spirit behind the Automated Election Law has been and continues to be prostituted by election authorities and the contractor entrusted with safeguarding our democratic institutions. Given what happened in 2010 and 2013 where every single security feature of the PCOS …
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27 September
Pontiff warns US bishops vs ‘divisive’ language
By Rachel Zoll / The Associated Press Pope Francis told US bishops on Wednesday they should avoid “harsh and divisive” language and create a Church with the warmth of a “family fire,” as he laid out a vision for American Catholicism far from the defensive stands on social issues that have put Church leaders at the center of the culture wars.
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20 September
The other official alternative truths
Some people are undeniably so extremely ugly that one look at their mugs is enough to launch a thousand Spartan ships in the opposite direction. The hapless owners of such faces are, however, in constant denial and their failed attempts to hide the repulsive truth have been spun in various ways so creative that the synonym entry for falsehoods, self-deception …