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Who’s Afraid of the Intellectual Property Rights Anti-piracy Drive?

The Philippines is a marketplace of pirated computer software, music CDs, and movie DVDs. Supply is all over the place, it is not that hard to find.…

February 23, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Philippines Trade with ASEAN Countries Result in Deficit

A glimpse on how much trade and commerce is obtained by the Philippines among the member countries of the ASEAN was released which highlighted the grim fact "for every 100…

February 4, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Banks Rise and Fall? LBC Placed Under Receivership

The past weekend the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation has taken over the assets and liabilities of the LBC Development Bank per MB Resolution No. 1354 dated September 9, 2011.…

September 12, 2011 / 4 Comments / Read More

Talking Heads in Government Agencies as Farmers and Their Families Suffer Hunger

The most wonderful thing about our government agencies is that they are full of talking heads. Information, misinformation, half-truths and the blatant attempt to deviate attention out of the…

September 6, 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More

IBON: President Cited Misleading and Faulty Rice Data in SONA

The data on rice production cited by Pres. Benigno Aquino III in his second SONA are among the faulty facts and figures. Says IBON Foundation.…

August 8, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More

The New Port of Pio Duran Unlocks Southwestern Bicol

The formal opening of the port of Pio Duran town of Albay ushers a new era for people and business to open up or look forward to progress. The modern…

August 7, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More

Pan De Sal Continue to Shrink in Size and Increase in Price

The staple breakfast bun of Philippine pan de sal we often see on the table courtesy of our friendly baker continue its saga of evolution in price, size and weight.…

May 20, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

On Time Harvest Saved Crops from Flood

Exactly two weeks before the rain floods of typhoon Bebeng hit the bountiful ricefields of Calabanga, in the quadrant bounded by sitios and barangays of Taculod, San Roque, San Pablo…

May 18, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Is PH’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program a Failure?

The Social Weather Station survey from March 4 to 7, from sample respondents of 1,200, revealed that 20.5 percent of respondents or about 4.1 million families say they went hungry…

April 11, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

A Sweeping Look at Mining in the Philippines

The prevailing Philippine mining laws grant the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sole authority to approve large-scale mining. Neither the provincial or local governments enjoy the…

April 9, 2011 / No Comment / Read More