Some thoughts on "Why Mareng Winnie was (likely) not addressing you" by Jonathan Corpuz Ong and Jason Cabanes.
Some thoughts on "Why Mareng Winnie was (likely) not addressing you" by Jonathan Corpuz Ong and Jason Cabanes.
GreenEarth Heritage Foundation: Taking bolder steps for nation building
The Philippines has just survived another election season. Almost everything is new in government. There is a new president, a new set of cabinet members and new officials in national and local posts.
The Philippines has just survived another election season. Almost everything is new in government. There is a new president, a new set of cabinet members and new officials in national and local posts. But the challenges faced by the new administration are old —poverty, corruption, debt, insurgency and a host of other enduring problems that mark government inefficiency and inadequacy.
Without belaboring an already over abused incident, I have a footnote to the recent tragic tourist bus incident at the Rizal Park. If anything else could be said of that incident, it is that it, gave the Philippines the unenviable opportunity to once again dominate world headlines!
The legendary SGV founder Washington Sycip shares some wise words on education, philanthropy, sustainability, dreams for the country and how to enjoy life. I was very privileged to meet him briefly during my stint with Nene Guevara of Synergeia Foundation. Article is from ANC.
Moving story of a brother missing his sister and wishing she didn't need to be an OFW just to make family ends meet.
Breaking the national shyness
Filipinos do not spontaneously go out of their way to speak with pride and enthusiasm about their country. Instead of openly displaying the uniqueness of their heritage and culture, Filipino expatriates would rather merge smoothly and noiselessly into the mainstream of their host country.
No news is great news!
When visiting other countries, I frankly feel great relief each day whenever there are no reports about the Philippines in the local media. That is because, at best, only one in ten reports on the Philippines is positive.
Sometime in the 1980s, a government minister of the Philippines was castigated by both public and press for describing the Philippines as “a rich country pretending to be poor.” To many, such a comment from a public official represented an unforgivable blindness to the actual state of the nation. Real Filipinos, people said, were living in poverty in a very real way.
