Saturday, August 2, 2014

Koreans Kim Soochae and Kim Yoon Seon Arrested for Sex Trafficking in the Philippines

As reported by BITAG channel 5 program in a news feature video entitled "Subasta," two Koreans Kim Soochae and Kim Yoon Seon were arrested by Philippine law enforcement authorities for multiple counts of the crimes involving Sex Trafficking in the Philippines. The Koreans were apprehended at Andrea Village II, Bacoor, Cavite together with their Filipino cohorts "Cathy" Fabella, Sherwin Tracy P. Belar, along with others.

No less than thirty young women were rescued from the halfway house at Bacoor, Cavite. Some screenshots of BITAG's feature are shown below:


Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Social Responsibility: the biggest thing in 2014 and onwards

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Image source: Park Media Blog

From this year, 2014 and onward, the floodgates of social responsibility will be opening. This is predicated upon coming events that will hasten to shape both national activity and the behavior of the community of nations.

It was evident in major disasters in the past that a lot of sharing, cooperation and coordination need to be done on the part of the private and public sectors. This time, it will be the private sector that will be leading the way.

There is no telling that the role of the United Nations will diminish. The UN will stay as sharp and and as useful as it had been since its inception, but a lot of actions on the part of its leadership mostly, has taken a great and heavy toll on its credibility and integrity. The UN has to reshape public opinion and retool its communications vehicles to be able to redeem the old virtues that were attached to its name. In the world of international affairs, reputation is hard to build and difficult to lose because if you do, getting back your face will not be as easy as it seems.

The road is long and hard for the people of the world but social responsibility cannot be beaten. It will make many individuals and corporations, organizations and combines shine. Godspeed to those that have already started way ahead of the others. For many groups that want to get ahead in the bandwagon, if they have been oppressing too many people and sectors along the way, like stealing intellectual property or somesuch, the first thing to do is to correct those errors. That is a big step in social responsibility.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Thank you UN, ICRC, all supporting Countries and Relief Groups

Thank you ICRC and Philippine Red Cross for all your efforts after #Yolanda in the affected Regions of the Philippines! More power to you! Godspeed and God bless you!

Thank you United Nations and United Nations OCHA (Director Khalikov), United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (Secretary Margareta Wahlstrom) for relief and recovery assistance, for your Flash Appeal world wide and to Excellency Ban Ki Moon for taking the time off his very busy schedule to visit Tacloban City! May God bless all of you and more power to you! 

A very warm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greetings to all your people, officers and workers all over the world!!! We love you all together with all those kind and generous ones from a myriad of countries and relief organizations that shared time, resources, blood sweat and tears for the victims of recent Philippine disaster!

Sunday, December 22, 2013

A Letter to Pres. Aquino, Sec. Abaya-DOTC


Open Letter to His Excellency Benigno Simeon Aquino III, 
President of the Philippines
and Honorable Joseph Emilio Abaya, Secretary
Department of Transportation and Communications


Dear President Aquino and Secretary Abaya:

Between 1989-1990, we began the advocacy for a Philippine safety agency that led to the passage of the Republic Act to create the NTSB - National Transportation Safety Board.

Shown below is the reconstruction of the briefing on the need to operationalize the National Transportation Safety Board. We revised the briefing over and over again. The updating of the voluminous data on accidents over land, to include actuarial and statistical computations of the probabilities of new accidents for extended, extrapolated periods, is not included since it would be too tasking for us and we do not have the resources nor are equipped any longer to undertake the job.

In the past, we were fortunate to be working with a foreign counterpart - the Harris Corporation Florida USA, a conglomerate with over 100 companies under its wings, that allowed us to opportunity to campaign for the privatization of the then Air Transportation Office's ATS (Air Traffic Service) as well as to push for the creation of the Philippines' transport safety agency.

- Original proponents for National Transport Safety Board 1994

Read more from here

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Reconstruction and Recovery

The World Bank says that timely reconstruction will help lessen the impact of super typhoon Yolanda. Before we digest these words, it is also significant to look back into the past.

There was a time in fairly recent past when NBC news anchor Brian Williams sounded like a broken record repeating the words over and over again that: Aviation in the United States of America is dying.

This is now true with Philippine air line companies and selected several other businesses in the Philippines right at this very moment.

During the post-Yolanda period, only at least one air line company that very enterprisingly lowered its passenger rates (presumably including for cargo) per seat-mile, notwithstanding that the Philippine government ordered that a number of fees and charges being levied in the aviation sector will be waived, among other behests in order to lessen the burden for victims of the calamity and those that had to fly to ground zero to participate in disaster relief and recovery operations. It is not difficult to hear a wisecrack such as: this suddenly successful air line company must have entered into a conspiracy with Yolanda just to boost its sales.

Dire is a weak description for the situation that a select number of businesses in the Philippines are in right now. More > >