From 2006 to 2013, the Mindanao grid had only 1,900 to 2,000 MW of installed power capacity, mostly sourced from hydropower facilities that provide higher output during the rainy season but declines during the summer.

It’s that time of year again and net gladiators are jousting on the red clay of the French Open (non-tennis buffs may skip this opener). One match in the round of sixteen kept me glued.

“Kiss muna,” he said, pointing to his puckered lips. “Give me a kiss first” and the many similar sexual innuendoes like it, are a most precise and succinct precondition that a lecherous man in a position of ascendancy and superior power and influence would lay on a woman depending on some outcome beneficial to her, through his beneficence.

It’s quite gratifying to see that, after so many years writing and speaking publicly against the dangers of the “Living Constitution” theory and allowing the Supreme Court to assume prerogatives not provided for in the Constitution, that people are slowly coming around to my points of view.

Upon the declaration of martial law in 1972 and in the 14 years that followed, the Marcos terror regime arrested, abducted, and detained over a hundred thousand political activists; artists, writers and critical journalists; teachers, professors, lawyers and other professionals; student, labor and peasant leaders; Muslims and indigenous people; and members of the opposition and other regime critics.

THIS Sunday Swiss voters will decide whether to try what may be the boldest financial experiment ever contemplated -- dismantling their orthodox banking system and building a new one based on so-called sovereign money, or Vollgeld.

BEFORE Howard Schultz came along, the most famous example of a chief executive trying to use his company for social good was William Norris, the CEO of Control Data Corp. Based in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Control Data was a highly successful maker of so-called supercomputers; by the early 1980s, it was a $5-billion company with 60,000 employees.

Have you heard of the tax-free transfer of property to a corporation or a “tax-free exchange” as an estate planning tool? In a tax-free exchange, the title over the property is transferred to a corporation, which in turn is controlled by the transferor. There is only a change in ownership in legal form, but none in fact and substance. The transfer is tax-free because it is not subject to income, documentary stamp and, under the new TRAIN law, value-added tax (VAT). The underlying idea is if there is no real transfer of ownership, there should be no tax on the transfer.

If you had a choice, would you rather have been born a man or a woman?

In a free trade, an effectual combination cannot be established but by the unanimous consent of every single trader, and it cannot last longer than every single trader continues of the same mind. -- Adam Smith, The Wealth Of Nations (1776), Book IV Chapter VIII.

The middle class, that struggling segment of society that straddles between the rich and the poor, may soon be a thing of the past. And perhaps, even their schools. Despite stories of economic growth, the fact remains that the gap between the rich and the poor has been widening, leaving fewer and fewer people in between. As a consequence, services that cater to this segment may eventually fade away as well.

Under a so-called “trifocalization” approach, the Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd), and, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) comprise the government’s education bureaucracy.