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EFN Asia 30: Conference 2013, Day 1
The EFN Asia 2013 Conference ended yesterday, another great event by the biggest network of free market or at least independent think tanks and academic scholars in Asia. This is my article yesterday...
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Still here in Bangkok, flying back to the Philippines this noon. Two nights ago, some friends at the Americans for Tax Reforms (ATR) met with some Asian participants of the Economic Freedom Network...
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Healthy Aging 3: GCOA-EMHN Policy Dialogue in Bangkok
Yesterday morning, the Emerging Markets Health Network (EMHN) and the Global Coalition On Aging (GCOA) jointly sponsored a "Policy Dialogue on Aging", here at Plaza Athenee Bangkok. There were 16 of us...
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Lion Rock 11: Barun Mitra on Democracy, Reading Salon 2013
I still have to write my reflection paper on the Reading Club Salon 2013 of the Lion Rock Institute (LRI) on "Democracy -- Past, Present and Future" held in Harbour Grand Hong Kong last October 19,...
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Pol. Ideology 52: What is the Main Purpose of Government?
* This is my article today in thelobbyist.biz. Quotes below are not part of the original article, I just added them here.------------There are several theories and opinions on the role of government in...
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Freedom Run 2011 and 2012
This coming November 10, 2013, an estimated 4,000 people will participate in Freedom Run 2013 to be held at Quezon Circle, Quezon City. The annual event that was started in the Freedom Run 2011 at UP...
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EFN Asia 31. Friends in the Asian Free Market Movement
* Note: this is a revised and expanded version of my posting last November 04. I added two photos, me and Barun, 2004 vs. 2013. Also expanded some stories.During the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia...
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EFN Asia 32: Day 2 of Conference 2013 in Bangkok
* This is my article yesterday at the EFN website. Karthik Chandra of the Foundation for Democratic Reforms and Lok Satta (People Power), India, helped in filling up some gaps in my original article....
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Freedom Run 2013, I will Run the 10K
Tomorrow, I will join the Freedom Run 2013 to be held in Quezon City. Like the Freedom Run 2012, I will run the 10K, even if did not join any other run this year. So my legs, be ready to be hammered...
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Climate Tricks 22: Typhoon Haiyan due to Man-Made CC?
The strongest typhoon this year in the planet, storm "Haiyan" (renamed as "Yolanda" by PAGASA) has left the country after it rammed through central Philippines, affecting many provinces like Leyte,...
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Pol. Ideology 53: Zero Government, Zero Taxes, Then What?
Zero government, zero taxes, then what? This is a question posed by a physician friend, DiVa, in one facebook group, the “University of the Philippines Libertarians”. There was no direct reply from the...
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Freedom Flame Awards 2013
Last Sunday night, November 10, I was one of the 14 individuals who were given the “Freedom Flame Awards” by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) Philippine office. It was a great honor...
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Typhoon Haiyan, Some Stories of Courage
I am speechless watching the photos, reading stories, of death and destruction in several provinces in central Philippines when typhoon Haiyan hit them last Friday, November 8. Facebook and twitter are...
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Healthy Ageing 4: GCOA-EMHN Meeting in Bangkok Last October
This is the continuation of my earlier article, GCOA-EMHN Policy Dialogue in Bangkok last month, on the Global Coalition On Aging (GCOA) - Emerging Markets Health Network (EMHN) Policy Dialogue on...
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Free Trade 29: ASEAN and Education Competitiveness
* This is my article yesterday in thelobbyist.biz.----------We will have the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by January 2015 or just 14 months from now. This is a great opportunity for many of us in the...
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Foreign Donations and Customs Bureaucracy
This is from a friend, JB Baylon of the I Am PGH (Person Giving Hope) Foundation. He posted this yesterday in his fb wall, about the Customs bureaucracy even for donations to victims of typhoon...
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Demography 20: Presentation at ILS, DOLE, on Population and Growth
Yesterday, I was one of three speakers in a forum by the Institute for Labor Studies (ILS) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on "From Challenges to Dividents: A New and Healthy Discourse...
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Mining 37: Adverse Selection of Anti-Corporate Mining View
* This is my article today in Mining Week.------------In a Reuters special report, Philippines' black market is China's golden connection published on August 22, 2012, the story mentioned the...
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Freedom Flame Awards, More Photos
It was a big day indeed, and a big night, November 10, 2013, at the beautiful San Diego Gardens, Intramuros, Manila. This is in an open area between Pamantasan ng Maynila and Manila Hotel. See my...
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Business 360 13: US Government Shutdown and Lessons for Asia
* This is my article for the November 2013 issue of Business 360, a monthly business magazine in Kathmandu, Nepal.----------The US federal government “shutdown” or more appropriately “slim down” looks...
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