Doom and gloom for Filipinos: unemployable refugee OFWs and rising energy costs

So much poetry was waxed as Filipinos, harbouring presumptuous paternalistic sentiment, doted upon the supposedly fledgling "people power" revolutionaries making waves in the Middle East. Trouble is, reality crept into the picture beneath the lines-of-sight of the chattering classes. That the livelihoods of a horde of Overseas Foreign Workers (OFWs) deployed there were at risk was an obvious reality that simply flew over the heads of would-be Filipino poets. That reality is now bearing down on the hapless little islands nation of 100 million as it faces the virtually impossible task of absorbing an additional mass of tens of thousands of warm bodies into its flaccid domestic economy.

Looks like governments are the same all over the world - big crybabies

Singapore political blog site The Online Citizen (TOC) had its wings clipped by the Singapore government after being reclassified ("gazetted") as a "political website" and therefore subject to "rules that govern other (normal) political organisations—like parties". The Economist reports in its AsiaView blog site.