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Hoco27

@hoco27

Private citizen with public thoughts. Entrepreneur, Studied International Relations, Philippine-Sino diplomacy, bike diplomacy and Loves Trains. Word...

 National Capital Region, Repub
Joined March 2011
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A new budget, a new set of leaders in the House of Representatives but the greed and shamelessness is so deeply entrenched. 2028 elections pa rin ang inuna. facebook.com/share/p/1C7LXEo…
Image from Budget Babe (@znsuzara)
Image from Budget Babe (@znsuzara)
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I’ve come to conclude that A.I. knows everything, yet understands nothing.
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Kung kaya nating mag-invest nang malaki at tuloy-tuloy sa malalaking transport projects gaya ng rail, dapat ganoon din ang pagtingin natin sa road-based public transport.
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No shift toward urban vitality is complete without improving access to active, social, green spaces. Restorative places woven into the fabric of the city, and give residents the opportunity to move their bodies, meet their friends and connect with nature. youtu.be/UzcQI59qesw
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“The Chinese are pragmatic: they realised there wasn’t enough room for all those cars in such a densely populated environment. They hit a wall. What the Chinese have accomplished in the last decade is the most important urban cycling story in the world.” ledevoir.com/actualites/tran…
A variety of people of all ages and abilities ride bikes and e-bikes on dedicated and separated infrastructure lined with trees and buildings on the streets of Beijing.

ALT A variety of people of all ages and abilities ride bikes and e-bikes on dedicated and separated infrastructure lined with trees and buildings on the streets of Beijing.

A variety of people of all ages and abilities ride bikes and e-bikes on dedicated and separated infrastructure lined with trees and buildings on the streets of Beijing.

ALT A variety of people of all ages and abilities ride bikes and e-bikes on dedicated and separated infrastructure lined with trees and buildings on the streets of Beijing.

A variety of people of all ages and abilities ride bikes and e-bikes on dedicated and separated infrastructure lined with trees and buildings on the streets of Beijing.

ALT A variety of people of all ages and abilities ride bikes and e-bikes on dedicated and separated infrastructure lined with trees and buildings on the streets of Beijing.

A variety of people of all ages and abilities ride bikes and e-bikes on dedicated and separated infrastructure lined with trees and buildings on the streets of Beijing.

ALT A variety of people of all ages and abilities ride bikes and e-bikes on dedicated and separated infrastructure lined with trees and buildings on the streets of Beijing.

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AI doesn't attack from the front. Regional competitors spent years securing strategic roles in global chip packaging while we cheered call center expansion at industry summits. We fortified against yesterday's war and lost the future. businessmirror.com.ph/2026/0…
Fortified against yesterday’s war | John Mangun

Fortified against yesterday’s war | John Mangun

The Philippines ranks 43rd out of 47 economies in an index measuring which countries are positioned to profit from artificial intelligence. The score is 21 out of 100. Granted, the Association of...

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Europe slapped 35 percent tariffs on Chinese EVs and their watched market share climb from 9.4 to 14 percent. Manila copies the logic from the subsidy side, paying foreign suppliers for parts we cannot produce. That is not industrial policy; that is tribute.
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My politics is whatever this is.
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Ten years after the landmark arbitral ruling that struck down Beijing’s 9-dash line claim over the South China Sea, one thing is clear: the dispute didn’t end in 2016. In this @straits_times multimedia package, we take a closer look at the competing historical claims, the legal questions, and how the dispute has evolved over the past decade. straitstimes.com/asia/east-a…
Who was here first? Why maps, old compasses and history classes matter in South China Sea dispute

Who was here first? Why maps, old compasses and history classes matter in South China Sea dispute

Ancestral records continue to be amplified as claimant states entrench their arguments. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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CMN Nguyen@ngcmn26Jun 27
Ha Joon-Chang @the_hindu: "I am actually upset with people like Rajan Raghuram and, these days, Dani Rodrik, who mislead developing countries into believing that there is no future in manufacturing, and you can grow on the basis of services." frontline.thehindu.com/inter…
Ha-Joon Chang on the Future of India's Industrialisation

Ha-Joon Chang on the Future of India's Industrialisation

Facing US tariffs and automation risks, Ha-Joon Chang argues that India must rebuild manufacturing via industrial policy, capital controls, and national champions.

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Why did private firms, not state-owned enterprises (SOEs), come to dominate China’s EV sector? My new @ChinaJournal article (co-authored with Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex) challenge the "top-down industrial policy" narrative. The real engine? Strategic alliances between local governments and private capital. 🧵 Based on 3+ years of fieldwork, 60+ interviews (with officials, entrepreneurs, and engineers), and rich first-hand accounts, we show how strict central regulations inadvertently drove local states to bet big on private EV players. Here is the story: (1/15)
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Trees are not fungible. You cannot undo the harm of tree cutting with a simple promise to plant elsewhere. Destroying street trees is destroying value in neighborhoods, destroying health outcomes, destroying our future.
Rodolfo Medrano (@ruminarist) profile pictureRodolfo Medrano@ruminaristMay 20
YOU CANNOT "offset" the cut trees by replanting new ones @DENROfficial Those trees took several decades to grow and have actively provided respite to counter the city pollution. You just allowed greed for profit kill what mother nature has provided for free. Incompetent fool! 😠
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Paanong imi-mitigate, eh pinutol nyo nga yung mga puno? San nyo itatanim ang seedlings? Sa bundok? Binaboy nyo yang Quirino Ave.
The Philippine Star (@PhilippineStar) profile pictureThe Philippine Star
@PhilippineStarMay 21
Replying to @PhilippineStar @andronquillo
On Wednesday, DENR-NCR clarified that tree-cutting applications are not automatically approved and must undergo environmental compliance checks, technical evaluation, coordination with local governments, and mitigation measures to address ecological impacts. Earlier this week, residents raised an alarm over the cutting of decades-old trees along Quirino Avenue for the elevated thoroughfare. | via @andronquillo
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Cities around the world are rethinking mobility, and Beijing is becoming an increasingly compelling part of that discussion. One of the best ways to follow such developments is @Cycling_Embassy's newsletter—which shares insights, highlights and reporting: bit.ly/4nzvcWd
A cycling highway through a new residential district of Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing is lined with trees, plants, and lighting fixtures.

ALT A cycling highway through a new residential district of Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing is lined with trees, plants, and lighting fixtures.

A cycling highway through a new residential district of Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing is lined with trees, plants, and lighting fixtures.

ALT A cycling highway through a new residential district of Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing is lined with trees, plants, and lighting fixtures.

A cycling highway through a new residential district of Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing is lined with trees, plants, and lighting fixtures.

ALT A cycling highway through a new residential district of Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing is lined with trees, plants, and lighting fixtures.

A cycling highway through a new residential district of Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing is lined with trees, plants, and lighting fixtures.

ALT A cycling highway through a new residential district of Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing is lined with trees, plants, and lighting fixtures.

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4Ps and conditional cash transfers have a huge body of evidence backing them. 4Ps, empircally, is one of the best uses of our tax money - unless you're against helping the poor. Which many of you are worldbank.org/en/news/featur…
PHILIPPINES: Overcoming Poverty through the Conditional Cash Transfer Program

PHILIPPINES: Overcoming Poverty through the Conditional Cash Transfer Program

What is one important lesson we can learn from the Philippines' conditional cash transfer program? Poor and vulnerable families can overcome poverty and deprivation through their own efforts. All...

worldbank.org
BLANK (@veritaeffetuale) profile pictureBLANK@veritaeffetualeApr 27
getting angry at 4Ps is just dumb it’s not a “free hand-out” — there’s a reason why we call it *conditional* cash transfer you pay the poor to send their children to school, to have medical check-ups in the hope you’ll eventually break the cycle of poverty
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One of my “go to” lines for years has been that the sign of success for a country isn’t that poor people drive cars, but that rich people ride the subway…
Susan Li (@SusanLiTV) profile pictureSusan Li
@SusanLiTVApr 25
BYD CEO Wang Chuanfu worth $23B taking the Beijing subway to the Beijing auto show BYD worth nearly $1 trillion How many billionaires do you see on the subway these days 👀
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If you want to know why basic food and manufactured goods are so incredibly expensive in the Philippines compared to Thailand or Vietnam, you have to look at the Logistics Performance Index. In Thailand, the logistical cost of moving a product (warehousing, transport, port fees) consumes roughly 14% of the product’s final retail price. In the Philippines, that logistical friction consumes over 25%. This is the Island Penalty. We are an archipelago suffering from chronic under-investment in deep-water ports and rail lines. Because we lack a unified, state-funded freight railway system, a single tomato grown in Mindanao must pass through a gauntlet of monopolized domestic shipping lines, expensive privately-owned tollways, and catastrophic urban gridlock. You aren't just paying for the tomato. You are mathematically paying for the state's failure to build efficient bridges and trains. We can never beat Thailand's export economy if moving the goods costs more than making them. 👇 Let’s discuss transport economics below: Should the government nationalize the tollways and cargo ferries? //Behind Asia
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Some ideas for action in the transport crisis: 1. Electric Vehicles. Government should, via a GOCC (there are many options) look into procuring every single electric bus and minibus in dealer lots and showrooms. Call up AC Mobility, Meralco and others to set up charging...
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Few cities have built greenways as quickly or as comprehensively as Shenzhen. Launched as part of the broader Pearl River Delta ecological initiative in 2010, their network now stretches more than 2,300 km, organised into a hierarchy of regional, urban and neighbourhood routes.🧵
A group of people in casual business attire ride green shared bicycles along dedicated cycling infrastructure through a linear park lined with trees, water, and flowers, in Shenzhen, China.

ALT A group of people in casual business attire ride green shared bicycles along dedicated cycling infrastructure through a linear park lined with trees, water, and flowers, in Shenzhen, China.

A group of people in casual business attire ride green shared bicycles along dedicated cycling infrastructure through a linear park lined with trees, water, and flowers, in Shenzhen, China.

ALT A group of people in casual business attire ride green shared bicycles along dedicated cycling infrastructure through a linear park lined with trees, water, and flowers, in Shenzhen, China.

A group of people in casual business attire ride green shared bicycles along dedicated cycling infrastructure through a linear park lined with trees, water, and flowers, in Shenzhen, China.

ALT A group of people in casual business attire ride green shared bicycles along dedicated cycling infrastructure through a linear park lined with trees, water, and flowers, in Shenzhen, China.

A group of people in casual business attire ride green shared bicycles along dedicated cycling infrastructure through a linear park lined with trees, water, and flowers, in Shenzhen, China.

ALT A group of people in casual business attire ride green shared bicycles along dedicated cycling infrastructure through a linear park lined with trees, water, and flowers, in Shenzhen, China.

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Guangzhou isn’t just building bike lanes. It's building a healthy, liveable city. With 6,000 km. of greenways, it boasts one of the world's largest cycling networks. What was once overlooked is now impossible to ignore: a vital link in their modern, multimodal transport system.
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