Kailian Ben Padua sent me something to post at this site but since it is also on his blog, you may visit it here instead. Reading about the abduction of James Balao reminded me of the case of Jonas Burgos, son of the late kailian Jose Burgos, Jr., press freedom icon and once a governor [...]

I have become wary of products made in China with the spate of recent news about product contamination – melamine in infant formula that affected 40,000 Chinese babies, melamine in animal feed that showed up in eggs, melamine in White Rabbit candy. But similar issues were already in the news even in previous years. The [...]

Rep. Antonio Alvarez of Palawan (first district) thinks that doing so would minimize “pharmaceutical misuse or abuse” and would “empower consumers” who are often beguiled by unproven claims of food supplements, which are all written in English.

Finally, I find validation for my personal observation about the Sanggunian Kabataan (SK): that it is irrelevant and does nothing but introduce our youth to traditional politics, making them trapos (traditional politicians) even before they are qualified to run for elective positions (other than in the SK). In a manifesto issued by the more than [...]

The last three times that I was at the money changer’s, the exchange rate went down by 2.38%; this in a span of three weeks. Analysts predict it could go down to as low as 45 in the coming months. That definitely hurts exporters, recipients of OFW remittances, and outsourcing industry freelancers.