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Philippine media's global ranking, Part 2
There seems to be high interest in PH news recently, especially starting October 2014 until today. See global ranking of ABS-CBN News, PDInquirer and Rappler. Screen shots taken today from...
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Free market sites in the ASEAN
How popular online are free market sites and blogs based in the ASEAN?Here is one answer -- the global ranking (via alexa.com) of some known free market websites and blogs in the ASEAN. Screen shots I...
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Business Bureaucracy 9, Land title registration
A friend who is still enamored with the idea of more government regulation of markets, Floro Francisco, had a little shock of his life when he experienced government bureaucracies first hand. He posted...
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Health Transparency 15, DOH Advisory Council meetings 2015
The DOH Advisory Council (AC) for the implementation of RA 9502 (Cheaper Medicines law of 2008) has already met twice this year. The second meeting was yesterday, but I did not know these meetings as...
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IPR and Medicines 36, On patent protection, data exclusivity and TPP
There was a DOH Advisory Council on the Implementation of RA 9502 (Cheaper Medicines Act of 2008) last April 20, 2015 that I was not able to attend. The Secretariat failed to invite me, but at least...
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Energy Econ 40, DOE Circular No. DC2015-06-0008
The Department of Energy (DOE) issued Circular No. DC2015-06-0008, Mandating All Distribution Utilities to undergo CSP) in securing PSA, dated June 11, 2015 and signed by resigned DOE Sec. Carlos...
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Climate Tricks 42, SDGs and Jeffrey Sachs, oil and warming planet
Yesterday, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and a UN Consultant on Sustainable Development, spoke at Intercon Hotel in Makati, mainly to prod more climate alarmism and "end fossil fuel" use to...
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Investment Liberalization 2, G7 and East Asia economies
Mobility of investments and capital across islands, countries and continents is part of human nature. A country or island for instance with plenty of beautiful white sand beaches will naturally attract...
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PH economic competitiveness, the Ateneo Eagle Watch briefing
Yesterday, I attended the Ateneo Eagle Watch briefing, held at the Ateneo Rockwell campus in Makati. The three speakers were Dr. Joseph Lim, "The State of the Economy: What were said and not said in...
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Election PH 15, Who's the least welfarist?
Yesterday during the Ateneo Eagle Watch briefing, the third speaker was Rappler's Maritess Danguilan-Vitug. Her talk was about "Scenarios for 2016."She talked mainly about the four leading candidates....
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BWorld 15, OFWs, MERS-CoV and the DFA
* This is my article yesterday in BusinessWorld Weekender.---------OFWs, MERS-CoV, the DFA, and helpful peopleAMONG the infectious diseases that have terrified people around the world since last year...
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Climate tricks 43, Interview at Sonshine Radio, DZAR 1026
* These are my answers to the guide questions for a live interview on “ECO-Hour episode,” DZAR 1026 Sonshine Radio Manila, 2-3pm today, hosted by Jomel and Rascille Laranas.Climate alarmism vs climate...
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Free Trade 50, the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement
The proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement involving 12 countries in East and West Pacific, final negotiations collapsed last month. Reposting some relevant news and views about the issue....
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Restaurant food left over... be given to the poor?
There are proposals that government should force restaurants and bake shops to donate their unsold food and bread, or "hardly touched" food, to the poor and hungry, before they close their shops. that...
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Torre de Manila, rule of law vs high political noise
I have not been following closely DMCI's Torre de Manila condo project and the political opposition hurled against it for being a "photo bomber" against the iconic Rizal monument in Luneta Park,...
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Climate Tricks 44, Scary predictions in 2009
We should be scared, very scared, very worried, of "man-made" warming and climate change. Hence, we should send more money to governments, the UN, Al Gore, WWF,Greenpeace, other planet saviours. We...
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Russian economy, Putin and cheap oil
Among the big international economics/business news today is the drastic economic contraction of Russian economy, by -4.6% in 2nd quarter 2015. The economy already contracted by -2.2% in the 1st...
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Demography 24, The Maddison Project data
The Maddison Project, data on per capita GDP and world population, 1000 to 2001. There is positive correlation. More population is an asset, not a liability.Source, Angus Maddison, 2004. "Growth and...
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Penalizing pedestrians in Makati, Part 2
I already posted last March about Makati City hall officers and bureaucrats penalizing pedestrians crossing this part of Buendia or Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. The issues here for me are the following:(1) NO...
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BWorld 15, The PH electricity market
* This is my article yesterday in BusinessWorld Weekender.--------The Philippine electricity market: MONOPOLY AND COMPETITION ENERGY is development, and that includes electricity. It is not possible...
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