May 22, 2013 Manila, Philippines
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Another event that in this country comes almost as often as its fun-filled fiestas is over, and everyone’s happy — or at least appears to be, except those few, pesky critics of the way things are done...
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld THE CANDIDATES for the Senate will be focusing their energies in the coming week on getting the “command votes” of religious and other groups, said reelectionist Senator Gregorio Honasan...
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Because it wasn’t ready or was unwilling to negotiate a comprehensive agreement on social and economic reforms that would have segued to negotiating an accord on...
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Journalists and politicians have always had an uneasy, troubled, and troubling relationship, whether in those countries that are, or which claim to be democracies, and even in dictatorships. But...
Sunday, April 28th, 2013
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Both in terms of how they’re being conducted and their possible results, the elections of 2013 are shaping up as expected. Name recall and membership in a well-known political...
Sunday, April 28th, 2013
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Strong reactions from readers met last week’s column piece detailing how Pryce Plans, Inc. tried, in vain, to induce me into accepting only 40% of the...
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) has been an icon of public broadcasting since it was founded in 1927, and is often mentioned as a model worthy of emulation in...
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Five years ago, I entertained hopes of promptly receiving the lump-sum cash settlement of a modest pension plan I had signed 10 years earlier with Pryce...
Sunday, April 14th, 2013
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Orgies of overspending, vote-buying, intimidation and outright coercion, and exercises through which a few political families have monopolized practically every elective office from city councilor to President, Philippine elections...
Sunday, April 14th, 2013
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star With her death last Monday at 87, Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s only woman prime minister in office for a record 11 years (1979-1990) has re-stoked the debate...
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
Is vote-buying worse in automated elections?
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Widespread vote-buying appears to have cast a dark cloud on the integrity of the May 13 midterm elections. This may be compounded by probable cheating, exploiting the technical defects of the precinct count optical scan machines plus the glitches in transmitting voting results that