Daily Archives: March 15, 2008

The US think tank The Heritage Foundation weighs in on the political turmoil in the Philippines. It says the ZTE scandal “has driven politics in the Philippines off the rails.” The US, it says, “should help it avert what has the potential to become a major constitutional crisis.”

Despite efforts by Philippine call center companies to glamorize the industry, call center agents are resigning, job-hopping, transferring or being fired by the hundreds as fast as they are being hired.

Joey de Venecia III, the first whistleblower in the ZTE scandal, regrets that his father, former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., had to pay a steep political price for his expos�. �Maybe it was his salvation,� Joey says of his father’ ouster as House speaker. But, Joey says, their relationship has never been better.