China’s power and territorial expansion

By Teresa S. Abesamis
Although I am certain of being at least 37.5% Chinese from my maternal grandparents, I have only seen the mainland from a hill in...

Getting Ahead in a Technology-Driven Workplace

By Beatriz K. Tschoepke
In today’s highly competitive job market, what skills do young professionals need to get their dream jobs? And what will ensure that when they...

It’s not for the dog

By A. R. Samson
The tendency to over-order food when in a group of more than four is probably an offshoot of our culture of hospitality. We don’t...

Breakdowns

By Luis V. Teodoro
As the number of the infected swells and threatens to overwhelm the healthcare system, the country’s medical frontliners have wisely called for the reassessment and reform of what passes for the Duterte regime’s anti-COVID-19 strategy. But they did not include in their proposals the need to address the possibility that we may also be in the middle of a mental health crisis that will quite possibly have a long-term impact on Philippine society. The physical and mental well-being of its people is after all among a nation’s chief assets, since only mentally healthy citizens can function as productive and responsible members of the community.

Major power companies, the Indonesia coal export ban, and the PCCI election

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Most power generation companies (gencos) — those that own big power plants and ensure we have 24/7 electricity except when there are major technical problems or natural calamities — also suffered major declines in revenues and net income in 2020’s lockdown and pandemic.

Intellectual property rights in East Asia

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
The degree of wealth and economic size of East Asian economies generally correlate with their degree of private property rights protection, both physical and...

An urgent call for unified action

By Eddie Dorotan
We are now into the third week since the lockdown, otherwise known as the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). To be exact, we are on Day 20 of the lockdown since March 15, 2020.

No time to rest

By Wilfredo G. Reyes
“Oh great...” I recall thinking to myself as I watched a foreign news clip of Vietnamese troops pulling out of Cambodia atop armored personnel carriers in 1989.

Skill counts but character is priceless

By Philip Ella Juico
The latest news to rock the international sports community is the ban on Singaporean swimming sensation and, at this point, the city-state’s lone Olympic gold medalist, Joseph Schooling from international competitions while under compulsory service with the Singapore Armed Forces.

Is the Philippine Industrial Revolution forthcoming?

By Andrew J. Masigan
In a Facebook post two weeks ago, I said that while the Philippine economy continues to grow in good pace on the back of government spending and consumption, its fundamentals are inferior to that of Vietnam whose economy is driven by investments and exports. I further urged the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to review its industrial policy and begin developing new export winners.

The way you were

THE PAST is a country we may have lived in and sometimes too hard to resist revisiting especially when we used to be at the top of it. Is it the default mode of old people, no longer in their prime not just in age but in status, to keep going back to the past?

OECD’s Global Minimum Tax: The good and the bad

By Raymond A. Abrea
A few months ago, the Philippines joined the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) as a member in a move...