Yeo Teck Wei is a Singapore based freelance writer who contributes weekly articles to www.wazzupmanila.com. What everyone should know about food security Do you know what is really implied by the term “food security”? Do you know who are the key organizations supporting international food aid? What can you do to help sustain food security?…
This is today's news roundup. Updates will continuously be posted during the day. A few days after publicly declaring that the government can have Meralco if it wants to, the head of the Lopez group admits to soliciting proxies in a bid to stop GSIS from taking control of the power company. Within the last…
Why do the babies starve when there's enough food to feed the world? – Tracy Chapman China and the Philippines Agricultural Comparison China hosts roughly ¼ of the world's population. It is said that a few decades ago, there was intense rice shortage in the country which made the Chinese clear entire forests and convert…
A few days after the president's call on big businesses to help her fight Meralco, and the GSIS started posturing for a corporate battle, the chairman of the power company's controlling company declared that it is open to a government buyout. The most important stories today are still about a commodity deemed so vital that…
This is a continuation of the article “The Current Philippine Rice Situation“. The solution to the Philippine rice problem is a combination of several ideas, the top four of which are discussed below. If the Philippines will be able to successfully implement the three proposals, nothing less than a sustained supply can be expected. Let…
I started drinking coffee when I was in high school but it was more of a breakfast ritual that continued until college. Upon joining the corporate world however, my daily consumption rose to noticeable levels that my boss had an item for it in the grocery list JD's coffee! Being largely uninitiated then, I took coffee…
“Here, no one has ever died from hunger but a lot had from overeating.” In a casual conversation, those were the words of China's then Premier Deng Xiaoping to a visiting foreign official. It may be have been hard to believe at that time. China was known as a poor country and a lot people…