Fail-safes on Uber

Stephen D. Capillas 11/17/2016

Was thinking about writing a piece on the “Letter to the Readers” made by the New York Times in which it admitted its shortcomings in its coverage of this year’s US elections and how this letter was…

Scientists fear the worst under a Trump presidency

11/17/2016

  Washington — From the fight against climate change to dwindling budgets for research, the US scientific community fears the worst under Donald Trump, seen by many as the most hostile to science of any American president…

Mayors of ‘sanctuary cities’ to fight Trump’s deportation plans

11/16/2016

SEATTLE — Democratic mayors of major US cities that have long had cool relationships with federal immigration officials say they’ll do all they can to protect residents from deportation, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s vows to withhold potentially…

Trump jitters cause PSEi slide; PH bourse ’16 gains wiped out

11/14/2016

The local stock barometer has wiped out all gains earlier seen in the year, sliding to the 6,800 level as US policy risk arising from Donald Trump’s election as the new president escalated aversion to most emerging…

Trump’s shocking victory

Ricky Poca 11/14/2016

THE election victory of businessman Donald Trump is something unexpected and not just because a few days before election day all surveys showed Democrat standard-bearer Hillary Clinton leading the way. In the last day of the campaign…

MAO BA? ‘Libingan’ Etc.

Editorial 11/11/2016

‘LIBINGAN’ ETC. The Supreme Court’s decision allowing the burial of the late president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) drew mixed reactions from Filipinos on social networking sites. After the viral photo that renamed…

Trump victory speech helps soothe market concerns

11/10/2016

LONDON — Conciliatory comments from US President-elect Donald Trump in the aftermath of his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton helped global stock markets and the dollar trim their hefty losses on Wednesday. Though uncertainty remains over Trump’s…

Salceda wants Trump blacklisted in PH

11/10/2016

The congressman who earlier filed a resolution seeking to bar Donald Trump from entering the country warned that the newly elected US president’s protectionist policy could hurt the Philippines’ interests, particularly on the business process outsourcing (BPO)…

JITTERS ALL AROUND

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/09/2016

  The victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the US presidential elections is making business stakeholders and local officials in Cebu nervous, as it might knock the wind out of surging industries like the business process…

DEATH BECOMES HER: Why the crossroads town of Carcar is the perfect ghoulish stopover

Jude Bacalso 11/08/2016

NOTE: In the aftermath of a well-meaning travel advisory against the South of Cebu, I’m publishing this belated Halloween-themed, impromptu trip to just that area in question. I acknowledge that the threat is always present, always real,…

Assuring tourists

Editorial 11/07/2016

The recent US advisory warning American citizens not to travel to southern Cebu, coupled with the US government’s recent cancellation of its firearms sales to the Philippines, may have been the result of the fallout in US-PH…

TERROR THREATS IN THE SOUTH?

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Doris C. Bongcac, Nestle L. Semilla, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/03/2016

US Embassy alerts Americans of kidnap threats in southern Cebu Cebu officials were caught by surprise by the advisory of the United States Embassy in Manila to its citizens to avoid going to southern Cebu to avoid…

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