Category Archives: Editorial

TOURIST, ER, CUSTOMER, IS ALWAYS RIGHT

CHICAGO (FAXX/jGLi) – The touchstone of success of a business is the continuous patronage of repeat customers. Or referral to others to patronize that business. If a customer does not come back to buy the same product or secure the same service, chances are the customer was not satisfied with such product or service the first time. Nor… Read More »

Reclaiming the land below the wind

IT TOOK a bunch of Filipinos from the Sultanate of Sulu who crossed into Sabah last week, some of them with arms, for some Philippine officials to finally realize that there is another land claim other than the East China Sea dispute that the country can successfully pursue. Some 400 Filipino Muslims, followers of Sultan Jamalal Kiram, are… Read More »

Politics in our lives

I was in a small gathering not long ago. The conversation was about the Philippines “Hindi na raw masyado ang korapsiyon ngayon. Pati ang hukom ng kataastaasang hukuman, kasama sa mga may kaso ngayon.” “Naku, mabuti naman.,” one of the persons in the group remarked. “Nakakahiya sa mga ibang lahi pag nadidinig kong pinag-uusapan ang Pilipinas.” “Ikaw, anong… Read More »

Buy from smugglers, export produce?

While we want to praise President Aquino and Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala for the increased production in rice the past year that, they said, would eventually lead to the Philippines becoming a rice exporter by 2014, we could not help but be alarmed by claims made by Abono chairman Rosendo So that the country faces a rice crisis… Read More »

‘MORE GUNS THAN FUN “ ?

Spain’s tourism industry reaps the highest revenues in the world, so successful that an estimated 57 million visitors flock to the Iberian Peninsula’s Mediterranean seashores and tourist spots annually. Why is Spain a top destination for visitors? Travel executives and experts all agree: “In all of Europe, Spain has the monopoly of sun while the rest of the… Read More »

Much still has to be done to sustain growth

There is no doubt that the Philippines has achieved phenomenal economic growth in the past year that even Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had to acknowledge that her successor and former economics student, President Benigno S. Aquino III, had done well in guiding the country to a 6.6 percent growth in 2012. Arroyo, who has become Aquino’s arch enemy, reminded… Read More »

Guns, goons and gold are back!

MANILA It’s still three months before the nationwide elections here on May 13 but the campaign fever is already heating up. Campaigning is still not officially allowed at this time but the law can’t stop politicians from marketing themselves already to the electorate. That’s the Philippines, where laws generally are only taken as mere suggestions by many people… Read More »

Happy New Year?

MANILA The Philippines’ New Year didn’t start auspiciously. Besides the usual pandemonium on New Year’s Eve with deafening and asphyxiating neighborhood fireworks, the early days of the year have brought deaths and intriguing mystery. The New Year was barely a week old when a spate of gun violence exploded in different parts of the country. The most controversial… Read More »

2013 CHINESE NEW YEAR

Kung Hei Fat Choi!!!. Prosperity is on us this New Year. Chinese or not, all holidays can be celebrated by everyone and it’s better for it attracts good luck to our lives. AVV0213 The Black water Snake is a complex animal and nature elements combined. In general all people must decide fast this year. Slow thinker will be… Read More »