As follow-up to my previous post on Government’s statement on the “Faye” story, Ms. Ruby Cristobal of SEI-DOST emailed me, last Friday evening, a follow-up message stating that they “decided not to have a press release on Faye’s story anymore … [the]…

Mr. Federico D. Pascual (click here for bio), former Philippine Daily Inquirer editor-in-chief who presently writes a Philippine Star column, POSTSCRIPT, writes again on Ms. Faye Nicole B. San Juan, the young lady who had caused quite a stir in some circles both…

Ms. Ruby Cristobal of the Department of Science and Technology sent me an email containing government’s, in particular DOST’s, statement of the “Faye” story. While I do not personally know Ms. Cristobal, I’d like to thank her for sending me this information…

A reader left this comment on my first post on the Faye story. Perhaps we should still take the ‘Faye’ story with a wee bit of scepticism. Indeed, her story came out in the front pages of some Philippine broadsheets (i.e. the Inquirer, 8 November 2004). But as we in…

This Business Week Online article captures the essence of Filipino ingenuity, especially that of local telcos, in providing fund-transfer services over-the air. In a country where the mobile phone penetration rate is about 24%, and foreseen to…

I was planning to go to SM Megamall for lunch this noon, but as I crossed the footbridge near the back gate of the NEDA compound, I changed my mind. I decide to walk to the nearest Mini Stop convenience store (no website, but you can click here for…

Mr. Fedirico D. Pascual, in his POSTSCRIPT Op/Ed Column in the Philippine Star, writes on the existence of Faye..

Links to the article here (Philstar.com), and here (manilamail.com).

I wonder how they come up with these stories? The Philippine Star last 29 October, published an article (the link is to a google-cached version, since Philstar.com does not archive articles older than a week) stating that the “MRT4 [is] most viable…

I posted this at COPA-NET (the e-group of the Council on Philippine Affairs/COPA), in response to posts about the ‘Faye’ and Jasmine Trias story entitled Misplaced Priorities can Mislead a Nation (a version of the full text can…