(The article below appeared in today’s Panorama Magazine and Tempo. For those who share my sentiments and have a Facebook account, please sign up and support our cause via the No to Text Tax! page. Thanks!)
The House committee on ways and means recently approved a measure imposing a five-centavo tax on every text message. The [...]
A letter to my father
By Susan V. Ople
Dearest Amang,
Not a day passes that I don’t think of you.
When I open the morning paper, I’d skim over news items and think, “How would you have reacted to this and that issue?” You see it’s not just you as my father that I miss, but [...]
The US State Department has released its annual report on human trafficking and guess what? Our country is listed under Tier 2 and is now on the watch list. Previously, we were a Tier 2 country, but not in danger of falling further behind in global efforts to curb trafficking of persons.
Why am I not [...]
Author’s Note: This article was posted on Inquirer.Net Global Nation
MANILA, Philippines—It all started last November with an ordinary flier which said: “4,000+ jobs for bus drivers in Dubai.” The paper ad offered a monthly salary of 5,200 dirhams or roughly P67,000. Thousands of these fliers were distributed by a local recruitment agency known as CYM [...]
If you were here, I would not be writing this poem with you in mind
Conversations would have more meaning
And time would march with purpose rather than crawl on its belly
Like a sea lion aimlessly slithering through space
If you were here, you would be writing sharp discourse,
Probing pieces that tell us why genius is rare
Hacking at [...]
We had a dinner-forum event last Wednesday, May 12, at Dulcinea in Tomas Morato. We invited several bloggers so that they could meet some of the bus drivers that the Ople Center was able to bring home from Dubai.
Bloggers with Bus Drivers, Susan Ople, Carlo Ople, and Former Congressman Willie Villarama
Here’s the video that [...]
Just as we were starting to see streaks of light and life in a moribund global economy, Mexico was zapped with swine flu and now the world is feeling the shakes from a possible pandemic.
The implications of a swine flu pandemic on our own little corner of the world are enormous.
Right now, international travel is [...]
I believe that Ted Failon is innocent. His daughter is adamant about this, the household help swear by it, too.
Why then can’t the Quezon City police respect the privacy and right to grieve of the bereaved family? What justice was there to obstruct when the criminal investigation had yet to start? And why arrest [...]
News Release
Blas F. Ople Policy Center
March 29, 2009
Ople Center denounces HK journalist for using Filipino maid as “pawn” in Spratly controversy
Former labor undersecretary Susan Ople called on the Philippine Consulate particularly its Office of the Labor Attache to look into the work conditions of “Luisa”, a household worker employed by Hong Kong journalist Chip Tsao [...]
Thanks to a good friend, Atty. Angelo Jimenez, I got wind of an e-mail chain that uses the name of my mom, Mrs. Susana V. Ople. This is akin to the typical Nigerian scam, but with a twist! It refers to a Senate link and has a yahoo address under my mother’s name. I assure [...]
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