I am tackling two topics in this piece, so let us go straight to the numbers. Our public debt is approaching P16 trillion. Last week the...

“Increase and multiply!” God told Adam, the first Man, in Genesis 1:28. “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and...

I spent some time outside the house yesterday, sitting in the driveway to get some sun. I have not done that for a long time. It was pleasant to enjoy a slight breeze, and hear birds chirping. And from where I sat, which was about 50 meters from the main road just outside our community’s main gate, I could see a few cars and motorcycles, and pedestrians passing by.

While we have gotten used to this continuing COVID-19 scourge, there is some good health news somewhere, particularly the decline in other infectious and communicable diseases like pneumonia incidence.

Secretary Ramon Lopez of the Department of Trade and Industry is among the hardest working Cabinet members we have today. Under his purview is the unenviable task of attracting foreign investments, shepherding local industries to global competitiveness, creating international trade opportunities and protecting local consumers from unfair trade practices, among many others.

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) recently came out with a preliminary report on births and deaths in 2022: Filipinos are having fewer children, and...

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released the country’s international merchandise trade statistics for March. Merchandise trade means goods only — services trade like overseas...

Description: An integrative course on understanding global social, economic and political environments of business from the perspective of contemporary Asian systems as influenced by China’s rise, particularly depicted in a 2018 film of the same title. An integrated business and film appreciation course useful for scenario planning, design thinking, behavioral economics, organizational behavior, game theory, and strategic finance/ marketing.

THE CARLOS GHOSN circus opened in Lebanon on Wednesday morning, with the ringmaster demanding rapt attention. Some 120 journalists from around the world, armed with cameras and cellphones, crammed in a room to hear Ghosn defend himself for the first time since he escaped from Japan last week. Ghosn, the former chairman of Nissan Motor Co. -- and the creator of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance -- spoke nonstop for an hour, his tone emotional, angry, aggrieved, sarcastic, sometimes all at once. Reporters asked Ghosn questions during the ensuing Q&A by shouting over everyone else.

All over the world, levels of hunger are expected to remain “shamefully” high according to United Nations (UN) officials in a recent report that predicts that almost 600 million people will be undernourished by 2030.

UNDER NORMAL circumstances, the most important news out of Turkey last weekend would have been a new law that, critics say, represents a blow to the country’s already weakened judicial system. But you might have missed it for the furor over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to convert the famed Hagia Sophia museum, one of the world’s top tourist destinations, into a mosque.

On Nov. 5, 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), as lead organization, launched the Covenant...