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Losing Face(book)? by Alma Anonas-Carpio

Last of two parts FACEBOOK ITSELF As for Facebook, it has done as Zuckerberg said it would. Users who visit the social network’s Help Center will find this message: “We're investigating all apps on our platform and conducting a full audit of any apps with...

PHLPost: Staying relevant in the age of electronic communication

by Psyche Roxas-Mendoza At no time has the power of man to communicate been this fast and pervasive. Latest figures supplied by the global conversation agency We are Social show that there are now more than four billion out of 7.6 billion people around...

Bangsamoro watch: House joint committee adopts BTC version

by Fil V. Elefante One major stumbling block to getting the draft bills for the Bangsamoro Basic Law passed was hurdled last week in the House of Representatives. The moment came when the House committees on local government, Muslim affairs and peace, reconciliation and unity...

Losing Face(book)? Part 2

by Alma Anonas Carpio     Facebook began notifying users whose data had been used by Cambridge Analytica on April 10, concurrently with the start of the two-day testimony Zuckerberg gave a joint session of the US Congress. On the second day of the hearing, Zuckerberg said...

Duterte: Relations with China on a higher level

President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping witnessed the signing of six bilateral agreements last week following the bilateral meeting held between the two leaders here. President Duterte was in China to attend the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), where he was one...

Losing Face(book)?

By Alma Anonas-Carpio First of three parts In an age where victim-blaming is no longer acceptable, it takes more than a casually-tossed “caveat emptor (buyer beware in Latin)” to deal with the problems presented by things like—oh, the Cambridge Analytica data breach. Any data breach where...

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Calatagan goes clean and green

More than a century ago, Calatagan was nothing more than an hacienda, with its vast plains planted to sugarcane and nipa shelters for sakada...

Chinese Filipinos: Transecting 1521

The time was 1417, over a hundred years before Spain set foot on the Philippines. The place—the small city of Dezhou in the province...

A FORMULA FOR PROGRESS

Combining Health & Investments Nestled at the foot of picturesque Mt. Makiling, the large, mainly agricultural población of Sto. Tomas is one of the oldest...