Sending missiles to China
The Philippines faces a delicate balance in global security as US-China tensions rise, with debates over missile defense, military alliances, and national…
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Primer Pagunuran
Primer Pagunuran currently drafts his dissertation proposal on infrastructural policy via public private partnership for his Doctor of Public Administration. With a master’s in public policy at UP Diliman, he used to be the chief of staff of key legislators of the House of Representatives. At the Center for Integrative and Development Studies, he is part of the research team that begun seminal work on Philippine federalism. He has written in local and foreign journals and presented papers in international conferences. In between, he plays tennis, loves to travel, fends for birds, a dog and cat lover, a marksman, a widower.
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Distorted Robin Hood notion of discount privileges
Truth is, the discounts deducted from gross proceeds constitute ‘sunk cost.’ There’s no way business owners could make them back.
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Can ‘nudging’ arrest corruption?
If one looks at corruption through a child’s eyes, the mind might ponder to ask: where are all the funds hidden?
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Should legal luminaries morph into legal mercenaries?
The unflattering comments by the highly respected magistrates were more likely uncalled for, wanting in propriety and intellectual humility.
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Pork barrel overload
It’s interesting to note that if only the NEP is never subjected to amendments, it would be the perfect mirror image of the GAB up to the point that it’s…
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Gov’t under September siege
It might qualify as the worst economic sabotage in human history that would remain unresolved for a while, even see the culprits go scot-free.
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Philippine floodgate scandal and EO 94
Its central theme mandates the ICI to ‘repress certain acts of public officers and private persons alike which constitute graft or corrupt practices or which…
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Split social perceptions over grand money heist
Insofar as the public is concerned, no amount of sheer denial, self-serving narrative, or subterfuge could erase their belief as to the real actors, players,…
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Chief PNP’s abruptum removere
At commanding heights, who would dare change horses in midstream at a time Torre had begun to effect positive reforms in the PNP.
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