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Employable
by Boo Chanco - July 14, 2025 - 12:00am
Our K-12 educational system is being blamed by a senator for failing to make our young people employable after senior high school.
Whose job is it?
by Boo Chanco - July 11, 2025 - 12:00am
The Department of Tourism missed its inbound visitor target of 7.7 million last year. Only 5.9 million came. Bali, one island alone, attracted 6.33 million visitors last year.
Where agrarian reform succeeded
by Boo Chanco - July 9, 2025 - 12:00am
It should hopefully be clear to BBM and our policymakers that unless they tackle agrarian reform first, nothing they are thinking of doing will make our agricultural sector more productive.
BBM: No agri policy?
by Boo Chanco - July 7, 2025 - 12:00am
BBM said last week that for the longest time, we did not have an agriculture policy.
Fil-Am friendship?
by Boo Chanco - July 4, 2025 - 12:00am
It’s Philippine-American Friendship Day today. It used to be a working holiday during the first Marcos era. But Cory Aquino removed it from the list of national holidays in 1987.
AI and the future of jobs
by Boo Chanco - July 2, 2025 - 12:00am
In today’s AI era, trying to get a job has become increasingly challenging for new graduates. AI tools are automating routine tasks typically done by entry-level workers (e.g.,...
‘Positive’ deepfake?
by Boo Chanco - June 30, 2025 - 12:00am
For quite a while now, Facebook has been showing deepfake ads featuring Ramon Ang and Lance Gokongwei, trying to entice the greedy but gullible to invest in a get-rich scam.
National security issue
by Boo Chanco - June 27, 2025 - 12:00am
It is reasonable to wonder if we, particularly the DOH, learned anything from the pandemic.
Return on Tourism Impact
by Boo Chanco - June 25, 2025 - 12:00am
Return on Tourism Impact sounds like a better way of measuring a country’s performance in tourism.
Oil prices going up
by Boo Chanco - June 23, 2025 - 12:00am
Another conflict in the Middle East is inflicting another round of price increases in the world oil market.
A tropical paradise
by Boo Chanco - June 20, 2025 - 12:00am
It’s a tropical paradise for dollar spending expats.
What do our taxes pay for?
by Boo Chanco - June 18, 2025 - 12:00am
This is a serious question: what exactly do we get from the government when we pay our taxes?
Is college essential?
by Boo Chanco - June 16, 2025 - 12:00am
We have just gone through graduation season. 
Is there hope for FDI?
by Boo Chanco - June 13, 2025 - 12:00am
A former journalist friend and I were trying to analyze why the masa seem to still be infatuated with Duterte. He said he had been asking taxi drivers and waiters the same question and all of them said they felt...
Forthwith
by Boo Chanco - June 11, 2025 - 12:00am
I asked Google to define “forthwith”: forth·with (especially in official use) immediately; without delay. Similar: at once; instantly; right away; now.
Risk takers
by Boo Chanco - June 9, 2025 - 12:00am
In a country with an abundance of risk-averse taipans among our economic elite, Ricky Razon seems to be the ultimate risk taker. Nothing fazes him – not even having to drill three Malampaya wells at a cost...
Seemingly strong peso?
by Boo Chanco - June 6, 2025 - 12:00am
“Historically the United States dollar strengthens when US Treasury yields rise. But the reverse happened in April after the White House announced widespread tariffs,” a Charles Schwab advisory said...
EDSA uprising averted
by Boo Chanco - June 4, 2025 - 12:00am
It was a heartless and idiotic idea to begin with and it was just as well that BBM stopped it.
More lessons from Vietnam
by Boo Chanco - June 2, 2025 - 12:00am
From the 1960s to the 1970s, the Philippines had the highest per capita GDP in Southeast Asia, surpassing countries like Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. Vietnam was not even in the picture because of the raging...
Housing and tourism
by Boo Chanco - May 30, 2025 - 12:00am
The two other big failures of BBM’s administration are housing and tourism.
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