Kickstarting the PHL’s Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept: The role of the PHL-Aussie strategic partnership
By Renato Cruz De Castro
In January 2024, Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro announced a new defense concept, the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC). The CADC is premised...
How to make billions selling $1 lemonade
By Shuli Ren
ONE CAN BECOME a billionaire selling ice cream, lemonade, and fruit smoothies — all for less than $1. Zhang Hongchao and Zhang Hongfu, two...
Enhancing the Philippine tourism experience: VAT refunds for foreign tourists
By Christine L. Paulma
The Philippines has long been regarded as a premier tropical destination for foreign tourists from around the world. From the pristine white sands of...
Breaking free
By Rafael M. Alunan III
Our nation’s greatest tragedy is not poverty, corruption, or external threats — it’s our paralysis in the face of these challenges. The current socioeconomic-political...
Tech giants, stop trying to build godlike AI
By Parmy Olson
WE have ChatGPT because Sam Altman wanted to build a god.
For all the buzz, the chatbot is only a prototype along the way to...
On GDP size, exports, FDI, and electricity generation
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
In comparing the GDP size of countries, I use the purchasing power parity (PPP) values, not current values for two reasons. One is that...
I-LEAD: Indigenous women and girls transforming communities in Mindanao
By Selva Ramachandran
MARCH holds particular importance as it marks the annual National Women’s Month of the Philippines. Under the theme “Babae sa Lahat ng Sektor, Aangat...
I dreamed a dream: A BSP decoupling from the US Fed funds policy
By Raul V. Fabella
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) paused the reduction of the benchmark rate at 5.75% in the first policy meeting last month. No surprise...
The growing youth epidemic of alcohol, tobacco, and vape use: A call for higher...
By AJ Montesa
On March 5, leading doctors and public health advocates gathered at the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) headquarters in Quezon City to sound the alarm...
What Duterte’s arrest means to the world
By Jam Magdaleno
RODRIGO DUTERTE built his presidency on a promise: to wage a war on drugs so ruthless that the fish in Manila Bay would “grow...
The importance of colorectal cancer screening
By Teodoro B. Padilla
In the Philippines, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. In 2022, there were 20,736...
Neutralizing sleeper agents and other espionage activities, foreign and domestic
By Rocio Salle Gatdula
THE recent arrests of several Chinese nationals and two Filipinos on espionage charges show growing security threats to the Philippines and the need for...
