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Business 360 20: Trade and Development in Asia
* This is my article for the business magazine published monthly in Kathmandu, Nepal.----------Asia is home not only to the most populous nations around the world like China, India and Indonesia, but...
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Election 10: Comelec Critics and Commissioner Luie Guia
Today, Commission on Elections (Comelec) new Commissioner Luie Guia, a friend from undergrad days in UP Diliman some three decades ago, posted in his fb wall this message below. I am reposting this...
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Climate Tricks 36: Avoid Looking at Data 450,000 Years Ago or Longer
The anthropogenic or "man-made" warming/CC camp is generally a parochial and short-time reference hypothesis. I say parochial because they only focus and blame carbon dioxide (CO2) as climate driver...
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Energy 32: More on Expensive and Unstable Renewables, Germany Experience
Another compilation of news reports and charts here, about the costly and unreliable electricity from renewables despite all the subsidies.(1) From Spiegel International, September 4, 2013.Altmaier and...
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Top 10 News in 2014, Happy New Year 2015
Happy New Year friends.May we be even happier in 2015 compared to 2014 and previous years.Well, there are reasons for optimism, and here is my list of theTop 10 global news of 20141. Economics 1,...
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Deflation, the Good and the Bad
Many people dislike inflation or rising prices of goods and services, understandable. So deflation or declining prices of commodities is good for them? Who benefit, who lose, if deflation happens?In...
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Land Reclamation in Manila Bay
I support land reclamation in Manila Bay. Remove those thick silt, mud, sand, other solid wastes in river beds near the bay. Also the thick lahar deposits in Bulacan rivers that contribute to frequent...
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Two Years Writing for Business 360
A friend way back in 2005, Charu Chadha, produced a new monthly business magazine in Kathmandu, Nepal in late 2012. She asked me to contribute an article on free market, I said yes. So far I have...
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Transport Econ 14: On the MRT and LRT Fare Hike
The fare hike in MRT and LRT trains in Metro Manila was implemented yesterday. This is a long-delayed move as any government subsidy program immediately creates an entitlement and dependency thinking...
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Fat Free Econ 56: Major Global Economic News of 2014
* This is my article for interaksyon.com the other day.------------Last year saw another roller coaster ride for the global economy. Below is a list of the most important economic news around the...
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Asian Liberty Forum 2015, Kathmandu
The 3rd Asia Liberty Forum will be held this week in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is mainly sponsored by the Center for Civil Society (CCS) India and the Asia Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE), and is...
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ALF 2: Opening Dinner Program
The 3rd Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) officially began last night here in Kathmandu, Nepal, with an Opening Dinner program. Conference venue is Soaltee Crowne Plaza. Big crowd, 200+ people from many...
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Pol. Ideology 60: Lecture in Nepal on Liberalism, Rule of Law, Civil Society
Back here in Kathmandu yesterday afternoon, after giving a talk before a group of university students in Pokhara, Nepal, about 30 minutes by plane from Kathmandu. The other speaker was Prof. Cris...
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Migration 21: Why Do Many Filipinos Work Abroad?
Still here in Kathmandu, Nepal. I was asked two times by two friends that question, why do so many Filipinos work abroad?Good question and they are referring to the estimated 10 million Filipinos who...
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Liberty in the Philippines
* Reposting this article from the ISIL. Thanks Joe for this opportunity.----------BY JOE KENT - JANUARY, 13TH 2015Nonoy Oplas is an economist in the Philippines, and the President of Minimal...
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Liberty in Singapore, Speech by Rainer Heufers in 2013
Reposting this from the International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL), a nice speech by Rainer Heufers during the ISIL World Conference 2013 in Lauseanne.----------... Right now Singapore is...
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The Pope in Manila, Security Paranoia vs People on the Roads
Pope Francis' visit here is nice and good. The Philippines is the only predominantly-Catholic country in Asia, about 80 percent of its 100 million population consider themselves as Catholics. Thus, a...
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Energy 32: Is the PH Power Supply Ready for the AEC?
* This is my article for the maiden issue December 2014 of ASEAN Voices, pages 28-31. It is a new magazine based in Jakarta scouring important news and opinions about the region. The pdf copy is also...
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Leftist Opportunism During the Pope Motorcade
This morning, Pope Francis will leave the Philippines and go back to the Vatican. He arrived four nights ago, January 15, from Sri Lanka. The visit at UST yesterday in the morning and the last mass at...
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ALF 3: Photos with Friends, Kathmandu Conference
More photos here during the 3rd Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) held at Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Kathmandu, Nepal, last January 8-10, 2015.Charu Chadha of Media 9 in Kathmandu, publisher of Business 360 monthly...
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