Tag: Corruption

• Goodbye….

  

  Two were lost last weekend: Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao’s bout with Floyd Mayweather, and Evangeline Escobillo’s life. “Tita Vangie,” as I have called her after we have moved on from our source and reporter roles to being friends, was always full of life that it is hard to imagine she is no longer alive. I…

  Lala Rimando

  8 May 2015

  Career, Governance, Journalism, Journalism award, Memorable interviews, Personal

  actuarian, actuary, Agile, Anchor Savings Bank, change, College Assurance Plan, Corruption, death, Evangeline Escobillo, financial crisis, financial industry, Gary Teves, governance, insurance, Insurance Commission, insurance industry, Pacific Plans, Platinum Plans, pre-need, Pre-Need Code, profile, reforms, Securities and Exchange Commission, statistics, Tina Turner, trust fund, USAID, Vangie Escobillo

• Sochi and why hosting the Olympics is not worth it  

  

  ‘Hosting the Olympic Games is taking on one of the most financially risky mega projects that many cities and nations have learned to their peril.’

  Lala Rimando

  26 Aug 2014

  Business and economy, Travel

  2004 Athens Olympics, 2004 Olympics, 2014 Olympics, 2014 Sochi Olympics, Alexander Belenkiy, Allison Stewart, Arkady Rotenberg, Athens Olympics, Bent Flyvbjerg, Corruption, development, economic growth, governance, Krasnaya Polyana, Olympics, real estate, Rosa Khutor, Sochi, Sochi Games, Vladimir Putin

• Getting away with it

  I was driving home my friend at almost midnight when a taxi from the right lane swerved in front of me to make a left turn. As I instinctively pressed the brakes, I noticed that a motorcycle driver was speeding on the left lane and would most likely hit the swerving taxi. I held my…

  Lala Rimando

  9 Oct 2010

  Driving, Manila, Personal

  Corruption, discipline, driving, learning, Philippine issues, politics