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Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations: The Chinese Connection
Ex-Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo aka Guo Hua Ping is smack dab in the center of the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations controversy. Implicated in human trafficking, money laundering, and espionage, she made a mockery of the country's law enforcement and legal system.
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Online Gaming in the Philippines
The Philippines emerged as an offshore gaming hub in recent years. But shady capital streams, allegations of human trafficking, and other illegal activities led to controversies that can give your ever trusty crime novels a run for their money.
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Philippine History: The Impeachment Trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato C. Corona
“I love the law...” this is the start of a longer dialogue from the film Philadelphia, this is actually my favorite line in the film when Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) explained what he loved about the law, something about seeing justice being...
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Making It in the Philippine Call Center Industry
I started working for a call center in early 2006. For the untrained, call centers can also mean business process outsourcing companies, contact centers, strategic partners, etc. But those who have been in this business of offering customer service...
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The Face of Disaster, Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines
Saturday, September 26 2009 will be remembered in the Philippines and the rest of the world as the day that nature unleashed its most cruel wrath, flash floods in the nation's capital and an aftermath that is comparable only to Hurricane Katrina. Up to this day the whole nation weeps as we come to...
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Genocide: Horror Stories of the 20th Century
Adolf Hitler to his Army commanders, August 22, 1939: "Thus for the time being I have sent to the East only my 'Death's Head Units' with the orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who...
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Why I Love History
One of the best gifts I gave myself on Christmas 2007 is a 3-DVD box set of the BBC documentary series “The Nazis: A Warning from History”. The history of the Jewish holocaust fascinates me so and I honestly don't know why. I just know that I...
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Lefties of the World Unite and Take Over
I never thought anything of my being left-handed all my life. I do know I'm a bit different, a bit disadvantaged because most stuff that deal with the use of both hands were designed with right-handed people in mind. I remember smudging over my...
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Smells Like Long Island Iced Tea
The Long Island iced tea is one of the more popular cocktails of all time. This deceivingly sweet cocktail kicks like a mule and rightly so as its laced with gin, vodka, rhum and sometimes tequila. I have a friend who moves in bartenders circles and...
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Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh - Not for the Fainthearted
Never in all my years of reading have I been so entranced with a work. This one definitely takes the cake as far as good reads go. I learned the book from a friend who is a serious reader. She gave it to me as a christmas gift. At first blush, it...
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Customer Service Filipino Style
The first call center in the Philippines was established in 1996. A U.S.-based company saw the potential of the Philippines' English-speaking population. This first venture paved the way for the Philippines to become a major hub for the global industry.
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Jesus Christ Superstar - Rock Opera as Life Soundtrack
Music is something very spiritual to me, something I revere. I know its the same for everyone who ever had a favorite song, a theme song, pretty much that's everyone else right? I pride myself in the music I enjoy (because there's really a lot you...
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27 Club - Rock Stars That Didn't Live to Be 28
Gone too soon and under strange circumstances. What transpired as they succumbed to the greatest equalizer. What would our world be like had they lived on?
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Tik Tik, the Filipino Supernatural Folklore
In the age of the information superhighway, it amazed me that here at the end of 2008 in the business process outsourcing company where I work, a story of the "tiktik" (a variation of the uniquely Filipino supernatural being called "aswang") was...