Higher cost of flight
By Marvin Tort
Starting this week, civil aviation authorities began charging airline companies and passengers around 60% more for using the country’s airports. Under Memorandum Circular 019-2025,...
Correction please
By Tony Samson
USUALLY in some corner at any big retail outlet is the “complaints desk” where one can lodge grievances like wrong-sized pants to be replaced...
Clean energy spending is accelerating, while Big Oil is slowing
By David Fickling
IF YOU had been scanning the headlines about the fight between clean energy and fossil power, you’d think that the energy transition went through...
Digital transformation in Philippine agribusiness: Mayani’s social enterprise
By Bernardo M. Villegas
We have seen how the increasing re-consolidation of small farms into larger units of thousands of hectares to follow the banana and pineapple model of large commercial farms is being encouraged by the Marcos Jr. Administration.
The franchise and strategic responsibility of distribution utilities
By Victor Andres C. Manhit
Remember that unfortunate outage on Panay Island last year, which led to a staggering P3.8 billion in economic losses?
That incident serves as a reminder...
Digital campaign wars: How social media, influencers, and AI will shape the 2025 elections
By Donald Lim
With the 2025 Philippine midterm elections just three weeks away, the political landscape is no longer defined solely by traditional campaign sorties, tarpaulins, motorcades,...
LGUs’ share in foreign investments
By Aaron Arwin C. Cheng
The Constitution requires Government to promote the preferential use and adopt measures to enhance the competitiveness of Filipino labor, domestic materials, and locally produced...
How will a new pope be chosen? An expert explains the conclave
by THE CONVERSATION
Following the death of Pope Francis, we’ll soon be seeing a new leader in the Vatican. The conclave – a strictly confidential...
The Philippines’ logistics challenge: Charting pathways forward
By Alfredo E. Pascual
Historically celebrated for its remarkable beauty and biodiversity, the Philippines’ archipelagic geography has emerged as a critical economic challenge. Today, logistics costs consume an...
Political song and dance
By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr.
Asked by a broadcast political commentator what he thought of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s senatorial slate for the 2025 midterm elections, former Senate President...
Nuclear energy for sustained growth
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
This week I am attending two important energy fora. First is the “Power 101: Energy Security in times of La Niña and El Niño”...
Rate cuts anyone? Anyone? Ferris Bueller’s tariff lesson
By Daniel Moss
IT’S DISCOMFORTING to see the men and women who have saved the global economy numerous times be so flummoxed by the trade war. Even...