Why cybersecurity must be on every CEO’s desk
By Donald Lim
In boardrooms across the Philippines, cybersecurity is often discussed — yet still misunderstood. For too many companies, it remains seen as a technical issue,...
The boys of Liverpool
By Jemy Gatdula
The Strand is a popular shopping center in Bootle, Merseyside. Opened in 1968, it kept expanding: residents finding it convenient, adequate, with all the...
Time to end disrespectful student activism
By Jemy Gatdula
There’s this interesting scene in the movie Too Big To Fail, which is about the 2008 financial crisis that almost brought down the entire global economy. The setting was after US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (played by William Hurt) asked the CEOs of the world’s biggest financial institutions to work through the weekend and try coming up with solutions to avert the crisis.
CrowdStrike’s global outage doesn’t have to be a recurring nightmare
By Parmy Olson
ONE OF THE MOST disturbing things about Friday’s devastating global outage of IT systems is how routine such ruinous events have become.
In the last...
Look on House Bill 6779: Coverage and Limitations
By Jennidy S. Tambor
On Jan. 29, House Bill 6779 or “An Act Recognizing the Civil Effects of Church Annulment Decrees” was approved on its third and final...
He is risen
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
The rising of Jesus Christ from the dead is not a myth, not a legend, Bishop Robert Barron emphatically said in his Easter Sunday homily on April 24, 2019.
Internet of beings: The dream of digitizing human bodies for healthcare (and the nightmare)
By Francesco Grillo
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured...
Can we make New Year’s resolutions work for the planet?
By Lara Williams
IF THERE’S A MONTH dedicated to self-betterment, it’s dark and dreary January. The gyms are full, the pubs are empty, and green juices are...
The long road to fiscal consolidation
By Diwa C. Guinigundo
If there’s a credit rating analysis that best sums up the fiscal challenge for the Marcos Jr. administration, it has to be the February 2022 Fitch Ratings’ explanation of the negative outlook it assigned to the Philippines while affirming its triple B investment grade.
Employer’s flexible work options
By Mark Ernest E. Mandap
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, employers were constrained to adopt alternative work arrangements to continue business operations while preserving their workforce. At the height of this health crisis, employers resorted to flexible work arrangements to replace or augment their office set-up.
Moving to a low-carbon future — why banks and companies need to step up
THE CLOCK is ticking on climate change. We currently have more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere than at any time in human history.
Cleaner air in East Asia may have driven recent acceleration in global warming, our...
By Laura Wilcox and Bjørn H. Samset
Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening is still...









