Is the PCC a facilitator or a hindrance to business competition?
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Even before the various competition bills in Congress ultimately became the Philippine Competition Act (PCA) of 2015 or RA 10667, I have been asking...
Ruminations on US-Philippine relations
By Andrew J. Masigan
Last week, I attended a forum on the state of Philippine-American relations with American Ambassador H.E. Sung Y. Kim addressing the crowd.
Sponsored by the...
Expectations on contractualization
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
On Labor Day, May 1, President Duterte finally released Executive Order 51 stopping illegal contractualization, as he warned firms involved in the practice that...
Undiplomatic costs
By Jemy Gatdula
It was Robert Frost who said that “diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way.”
It’s a good characterization really and embodies...
Proving RSF right
By Luis V. Teodoro
Four media-related events occurred within days of each other last week.
One was the release by the press freedom watch group Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF...
Heritage Festival: Pambansang Pagkakaisa Para Sa Pamana
By Maria Victoria Rufino
May marks the 15th year of National Heritage Month. Filipino Heritage Festival (FHFI) president Armita B. Rufino and finance officer Araceli R. Salas are...
Still on federalism
By Benjamin R. Punongbayan
FEDERALISM is now getting wider attention. This is good.
It is clear that this structure of government, which is totally alien to...
Can Services Become The New Driver of Growth in Asia?
By Junhong Chang and Nestor A. Espenilla, Jr.
ASIA is known as a manufacturing powerhouse. Yet, in the future, a growth strategy heavily focused on...
Four lessons on funding social enterprises
By Patrick Adriel H. Aure
On April 18, I was fortunate to attend a plenary session of the Asian Forum on Enterprise for Society.
The topic was “Money for dreamers...
Back to June
By Marvin A. Tort
In a column last October, I raised the issue of whether or not we are aiming -- as a matter of government policy --...
Valedictory speech
By A. R. Samson
Writing a column for far too long, this one since January 1984 or over 34 years, from the predecessor publication of this one (Business...
The ASEAN Bows to China
By Richard Javad Heydarian
Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wrapped up the 32nd summit on April 28 in Singapore, this year’s chairman. After half-a-century...