We do want you and readers of your blog to understand that we (and those involved with these alternatives) are not romancing the past or rural life. But the current food crisis certainly supports the alter-globalization’s focus on increased food sovereignty. “Modernization” of agriculture in the southern Philippines, for instance, has been to the benefit [...]
The youngest Asian-American Head Coach in the NBA is a Filipino!
If you’ve been to the Philippines (like Gilbert Arenas), You know how basketball crazy the Philippines is!
Another reason to cheer for Dwade and the Miami Heat!
ESPN - Monday Bullets - TrueHoop By Henry Abbott
New Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra to Sports Business Radio (subscription): “I am [...]
Wish more people call BS on all the Crap that circulates on the media in my country. I was riding the bus about 30 minutes ago and the news reports were on the rising price of pork, the philippines meat of choice. And I was none too happy about how the report was done. Have [...]
Congratulations to kababayan Ronald Ventura.
Bloomberg and Reuters have results from the Asian contemporary sales where only 60% of the lots found buyers. Collectors were picky but not stingy. Some of the works that did sell made prices dramatically above high estimates. The Evening sale of Contemporary Asian art brought in HK$117,117,500 ($15 million) with I [...]
I haven’t studied this enough to even start forming an opinion.
emphasis mine from the excellent Dani Rodrik’s blog here:
As one might expect, the book takes swipes at the usual suspects: the Washington Consensus, the IFIs, the MNCs, Tom Friedman, and Jeff Sachs. Against the growth-focused and globalization-centered views of these institutions and commentators, Robin [...]
This hit home because my sister was telling me of the recent moves to abolish the BS Education as a recognized course in the Philippines, meaning that people who want to become teachers of Preschool/Elementary/Highschool must have an Education degree and pass a National Certification Exam known as (LET - Licensure Exam for Teachers).
It seems [...]
A recession bound USA offers probably more opportunities for enrichment than our small country the Philippines. Sad but there are tens of thousands of teachers from the Philippines without work. I remember a conversation I had with the Filipino Couple we had met on the hotel in Thailand a couple of years back. They had [...]
I respect the jest that this comment was said, but I don’t know sometimes some joke must be left unsaid.
from Inquirer here do read the whole thing its a short post:
Past Forward
One Visayas
By Jobers Bersales
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 12:44:00 08/28/2008
Antique Gov. Sally Zaldivar-Perez charmed — or maybe I should say outsmarted — the local media [...]
Minor quibble, a side line is something you do aside a job/ or side by side a job. When it is your main means of making a living no matter how small or how far from a normal job it is , that is your work and not your sideline.
from Inquirer Blogs here please do [...]
This does not bode well. Judging from the effect of the non decriminalization of squatting in creating a mass of people who are said to be professional squatters (which is just another form of extortion) It’s scary the that the Supreme Court is busying itself with things really beyond its grasp instead of dealing with [...]
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