Humanistic management and competitiveness
By Benito L. Teehankee
Following tradition, President Duterte released an Executive Order on Labor Day to somehow address the expressed needs of the country’s workers. As expected, most...
What for, is the Budget?
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
“A national highway? No signs at all of any steel bars to reinforce the gravel-and-sand-and-concrete mix. No wonder Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) could easily crush it and leave it looking like soda biscuits cracked into pieces,” Bishop Ambo said on Facebook.
Green skepticism: The bane of sustainable fashion?
By Liza Mae L. Fumar
Eco-friendly. Green. Sustainable. You have probably seen these words, or their synonyms, used to market and promote many consumer products that you use daily.
Mercy and forgiveness in justice and injustice
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
“Have you done your corporate examination of consciousness? Are the poor in the mission-vision statement of your company? Are the underprivileged in society somewhere...
Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is — and he knows who killed...
By Christopher Pollard
Yanis Varoufakis grew up during the Greek dictatorship of 1967-1974. He later became an economics professor and was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015.
His...
US Congressional gold medal for Filipino WWII veterans
By Greg B. Macabenta
On April 7 at the historic Presidio in San Francisco, surviving Filipino World War II veterans or their next of kin living in Northern...
Merck’s new antiviral promises to make COVID less deadly
By Max Nisen
MERCK & CO. and Ridgeback’s antiviral pill molnupiravir is a potential pandemic game-changer, judging from the positive test data that arrived Friday. To make the most of this promise, governments and global health organizations need to prepare to manufacture the pills in great quantities.
Offshore wind puts the Philippines on the road to energy independence
By Torbjørn Kirkeby-Garstad
OFFSHORE WIND is emerging as a possible “win-win” for the Philippines in its pursuit of energy independence. The country’s success will depend on clear regulations, strong incentives, early investments in grid capacity, and the political will to make it all happen.
Never again to a Spoliarium
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
Stripped to his bloodied loin cloth, a dead gladiator is dragged by his right arm by a blood-drenched orderly in the spoliarium (abattoir) of the Roman Coliseum.
‘For whom the sisterhood calls’
By Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza
March, the women’s month...and this is a last “hurrah.”
Assessing Duterte’s economic reforms
By Pia Rodrigo and Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III
A Pulse Asia survey conducted in June 2021 showed that the top issues Filipinos wanted President Rodrigo Duterte to discuss during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) were creating jobs (38%), improving the economy (35%), controlling inflation (33%), and expediting COVID-19 vaccination (31%).
Improving the ASF surveillance system
By Ramon L. Clarete
Iloilo province used to be “green” in so far as African swine fever (ASF) is concerned. But not since last month.