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Helpless with Missing Money Transfer?

Aneth Ng-Lim
Posted at Jun 14 01:58 PM

Sleepless nights, frantic emails and waiting on the phone for someone, just anyone, to pick up my calls to the bank customer hotline filled my days until my money was safely back in my account, down to the last centavo.   Read more »

Beware of this ‘Bishop Ted Bacani’ impostor

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at Jun 14 02:05 AM

Last Friday afternoon, June 11, I got a call from an unidentified number while I was attending a VERA Files activity. The caller introduced himself as “Bishop Ted Bacani.” Read more »

Taming tempers over the Rescission Act of 1946

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jun 12 04:31 AM

How much did Filipino chicanery contribute to the passage of the Rescission Act of 1946?  Read more »

We’ll never get the government we deserve

Edmund Tayao
Updated as of Jun 10 11:55 PM

I’m sure you've heard the terse resentment to an explanation why we have the kind of government we have—that we only get the government that we deserve. I disagree.  Read more »

What you do online can help you get the loan you need

Aneth Ng-Lim
Posted at Jun 07 01:21 PM

By giving its financial partners an added layer of behavioral insights, CredoLab is helping open more lines of credit to the unbanked and the underbanked.  Read more »

‘Ridiculous,’ SC says on drug war records as ‘national security’

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Updated as of Jun 06 10:13 PM

It is President Duterte’s choice if he is not interested to see the documentation of the killings based on his orders. But the public should not be prevented from knowing the truth. Read more »

Si Telesforo Trinidad at ang Medalya ng Karangalan

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jun 05 03:13 AM

Kung sana’y maisasakatuparan ang kahilingan ng nagraramihang mga Pinoy sa America, ang isang pangdigmaang barko ng US Navy ay ipapangalan sa ala-ala ng isang kababayan natin. Fireman 2nd Cl. Telesforo Trinidad, isang marino. Read more »

Stop shopping your way through this pandemic

Aneth Ng-Lim
Posted at May 31 04:27 PM

If you are treating online shopping as window shopping, chances are you are simply spending and not saving. At a time when we all need to tighten our belts, here are some tips to help you hold on to your money so you can park it in savings and investments instead. Read more »

Why does the DOJ need PNP consent to probe cops in drug war?

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at May 31 12:06 AM

The timing of this PNP-DOJ cooperation makes us suspicious that it is more for the consumption of the International Criminal Court that is expected to release its decision on the result of the preliminary examination of the situation in the Philippines before Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda retires on June 15. Read more »

From ghost story to urban legend: Authenticating 'The Lady in White of Balete Drive'

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of May 27 09:28 PM

Talked about for many decades, she has remained nameless. Perhaps such prolonged anonymity has contributed much to the alluring mystique. Until today.   Read more »

When ‘strangers’ come borrowing money

Aneth Ng-Lim
Posted at May 24 12:35 PM

It’s been years since I last spoke with a former work colleague, so getting a message from him saying hello was unexpected. Being polite, I had to reply and was surprised that his next message was requesting to borrow money. Read more »

Beauty in the time of pandemic

Aneth Ng-Lim
Updated as of May 17 07:18 PM

While the pandemic may have changed the priorities of nearly every single person on the planet, it does not mean that skin care and beauty products no longer have a loyal following.   Read more »

Liar

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Posted at May 17 01:34 AM

No, the jet ski boast was not a joke. It was a lie. Read more »

Hopes and dreams in 2022

Edmund Tayao
Posted at May 15 09:54 PM

We can try as we should to have the coming 2022 elections to be an election of programs and platform as it is in other countries. Read more »

The Filipino elderly are left behind

Sanny D. Afable, IBON Features
Posted at May 13 09:31 PM

It is time we stop treating old-age welfare as an afterthought, a “residual” policy, just because the elderly are “unproductive,” as President Rodrigo Duterte puts it in one of his late-night ramblings.  Read more »

It’s Job-Hunting Season: How to Get the Salary You Deserve

Aneth Ng-Lim
Posted at May 10 02:10 PM

Job-hunting season should have started back in February for this year’s graduating batch, but with all things pandemic, timelines have become so fluid so there are those who just started.  Read more »

Why the shutdown of ABS-CBN is an assault on free expression

Former Vice President Jejomar Binay
Posted at May 05 06:44 PM

The damage inflicted on our democratic institutions by last year’s closure of ABS-CBN can never be repaired unless the network is allowed once again to operate. But we cannot expect legislators who served as the network’s executioners to perform such an act that would sanitize their conscience.  Read more »

How miserable are we?

Aneth Ng-Lim
Posted at May 03 12:38 PM

The Philippine Misery Index in 2020 rose to 12.9 percent, the highest in 12 years, according to data from the Philippine Statistics Authority and research published by SB Equities Research. Read more »

Leaked PCOO memo: Government's official sugar-coating?

Robert Labayen
Posted at Apr 30 05:03 PM

As a taxpayer, a citizen, and a voter, I want my government’s communicators to give me the whole picture. Cherry-picking data will lower our standards of expectations from our government. Read more »

California's Pinoy Attorney General — Rob Bonta

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Apr 30 02:08 AM

After Vice President Kamala Harris, Rob Bonta is only the second Asian-American to hold the post of California’s Attorney-General.  Read more »