Jack The Scribbler

Five things to remember about Chino Roces

IT’S about time someone wrote a biography of Joaquin “Chino” P. Roces, the late publisher of the Manila Times.

After all, beyond the small circle of older Filipino journalists who worked with him, very few people remember, let alone recognize who he was, why he went to jail, and what he has done for this country.

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Three suggestions from Raul Fabella to boost the Philippine economy

Fabella: A weaker peso protects local producers without mechanisms like tariffs (Pic from UP Economics Society)

THE last time National Scientist and economist Raul Fabella clamored for the peso’s devaluation, a powerful but low-key government body ‘encouraged’* a newspaper columnist to criticize him and other economists who shared the same opinion. [See: Raul Fabella]
Or at least that’s what Fabella claimed after he delivered a lecture about the benefits of a competitive currency at the University of the Philippines School of Economics last November 24.
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Marcos loyalists help save the Earth by planting trees in UP

A Marcos loyalist shows the back of her membership card.

MARCOS loyalists don’t get any respect these days.

Just ask Josefina Mangilit, the 59-year-old Quezon City coordinator of the Friends of Imelda Romualdez Marcos (FIRM 24K), which she says has 13,000 members across the country.

Everytime she goes out to attend the group’s twice-weekly meetings—Saturdays in Quezon City, Sundays at the Luneta—she dons a bright red vest that displays her affiliations (an outfit the group calls its uniform). Read the rest of this entry »

See Jack fail miserably at selling web ads

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