The US-North Korea summit and the global economy
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
The summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un (KJU) this coming June 12, 2018 in Singapore is marked with several paradoxes.
Boeing puts a $30-billion deal to the test
HEADS, Boeing Co. wins. Tails, aerospace suppliers lose.
Political Appointments Always Lead to Disaster
By Andrew J. Masigan
The dark cloud that hovered over the tourism industry has blown away, thanks to the termination of Wanda Teo and the resignation of Cesar Montano of the Department of Tourism (DoT) and Tourism Promotions Board (TPB), respectively.
National ICT Month to tackle software development
By Helen Perez-Macasaet
Every year, I look forward to June as the Philippine National ICT Month. I’m not really sure what I want to celebrate this year in terms of what have been accomplished in ICT as a country.
Sex doesn’t sell for streaming apps chasing investors
IN A CORNER of M17 Entertainment Ltd.’s corporate headquarters in Taipei’s Xinyi district hang a row of televisions.
Hong Kong banks, meet the 21st century
IRONICALLY, the city that should have been first to be swept up by China’s fintech revolution is still a picture of old-world conservatism. Not for long, though. Hong Kong, whose last big innovation in retail payments is as old as the former British colony’s 1997 handover to China, is on the cusp of big change.
TRAIN 2 and The Fatal Conceit
By Calixto V. Chikiamco
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Low-cost housing for the rich
By Madeiline Joy Aloria
The Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) estimates that the country’s total housing backlog will accumulate to 3.6 million units by the end of 2018.
Tobacco taxation, smuggling and plain packaging
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
“To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.” -- Mark Twain
Conflict of interest in positions of trust
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
The Corporation Code of the Philippines, Section 32 concerns with the “Dealings of directors, trustees or officers with the corporation”.
Divide into two
By Luis V. Teodoro
His attacks on the press are “repulsive,” and “he should be the figure of suspicion, not the press,” when it comes to “fake news.” A president who “constantly deflects and distorts and distracts -- who must find someone else to blame -- is charting a very dangerous path.”
The sweetness of doing nothing
By Jemy Gatdula
“Now that ain’t workin’; that’s the way you do it. Lemme tell ya them guys ain’t dumb. Maybe get a blister on your little finger. Maybe get a blister on your thumb. That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it. Money for nothin’ and chicks for free.”