TRILLANES ISN’T GETTING ENOUGH RECOGNITION FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THE COUNTRY.
The Dutertes faced Leni Robredo, Kiko Pangilinan, Risa Hontiveros, and the Aquinos, but none of them was able to successfully take Duterte down, only Trillanes. ONLY TRILLANES.
it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself
A girl just said she tried to get rejected 1000 times in 2025 and ended up being cast in plays, winning pageants, securing hella paid brand deals, and appearing in commercials.This is your sign to chase rejection to the point of "accidental" success. You'll be surprised.
people who loudly proclaim they're not into fashion are often doing so bc they want people to know they're not superficial. instead, they are high-minded and "serious." in doing so, they are committing the same sins of vanity and pride that they criticize the fashion industry for
The Philippines grows 87% of the world’s abaca fiber. China turns it into textiles. Guess who keeps the margin.
About 200,000 Filipino farming families harvest these stalks by hand. The entire country earns roughly $100M a year from abaca exports, raw fiber and finished products combined. That’s $500 per farming family per year from the strongest natural fiber on earth.
Meanwhile, Chinese textile manufacturers sell finished abaca fabric to Levi’s, Calvin Klein, GAP, and dozens of global brands at markups that make the raw material cost a rounding error. The abaca fiber market is growing at ~8% annually toward $150M by 2029, but that growth is almost entirely in processing and finished goods, not in what farmers earn.
The Philippines actually has a competitive edge here. Nine commercial fiber grades versus Ecuador’s five. High genetic diversity. Centuries of cultivation expertise. PhilFIDA has been trying to move the industry up the value chain for decades. But processing requires capital infrastructure and direct relationships with Western brands that Chinese factories locked up years ago.
This is the same pattern playing out across Southeast Asian commodities. The country with the resource exports raw material. The country with the factories captures the spread. You’re watching a video of Philippine agricultural wealth being converted into Chinese manufacturing margin in real time.
That $100M in Filipino export earnings? A single Chinese denim manufacturer like Black Peony does more than that serving just one brand account.
Un oficinista que comía un sándwich mientras lloraba en un tren nocturno se ha convertido en tema de conversación, y muchos lo consideran una imagen desgarradora.
La vida no es solo trabajo, así que hagamos todos lo posible sin exigirnos demasiado...
There used to be a big billboard on a main highway in Tel Aviv with an ad offering foreign care-takers for elderly Israelis. The ad simply showed Filipino man and woman with the text "Filipino Men and Women" and the company's phone number. Haaretz wrote about it in 2001. Today's Israeli society is much more racist.
Never forget how China "stole" Mischief Reef from Philippines and converted it into a massive military base!
In 1995 China step a " temporary" wooden structure at the Mischief Reef, inside Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone. According to Beijing, the wooden structure was meant to provide shelter to Chinese fishermen.
That temporary structure built inside Philippines's EEZ, without Manila's consent was of course illegal. However, Philippines did nothing!
Over the years that illegally built wooden structure got bigger and bigger, ultimately being turned into a massive military base.
Today, the Chinese military base on the Mischief Reef has a over 3000 meters long runway, missile silos, ship berthing facilities, and shelters that can accommodate hundreds of soldiers!
Mischief Reef today threatens not just Philippines's territorial sovereignty but also the entire regional security!