Squid tactics
By Greg B. Macabenta
Two parallel issues (call them controversies or scandals -- your choice) involving the occupants of the White House and Malacañang have been hogging the...
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...
New IPO Guidelines for patent examination
By Danielle S. Cadiz
In line with its goal to deliver timely and quality patents, utility models and industrial designs, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPO)...
Higher pay for tax collectors
By Raymond A. Abrea
With the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) earning a net of P14,000 in...
Lower taxes via more mineral exports
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Countries that impose zero income taxes on their nationals are dependent on extracting and exporting their natural resources such as oil and natural gas....
Gordon and Faeldon in power play
By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr.
Senator Richard Gordon and Former Customs commissioner Nicanor Faeldon engaged in power play during the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on alleged corruption in...
Keeping it light
By A. R. Samson
It’s not always easy just to have a simple conversation among friends about topics like movies, books, illnesses, diets, new restaurants, and gossip. Some...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Correcting Action for Economic Reforms (AER) on TRAIN
February 4, 2018
Dear Editor:
Action for Economic Reforms (AER) has risen to the defense of the Duterte administration's Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN)...
Übermensch*
By Raul V. Fabella
In Shakespeare’s Act III of Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony joined the funeral of, after Brutus and kindred souls had done the Ides of March...
NAIA gets its act together
By Andrew J. Masigan
For much of the decade, traveling through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has always been an emotionally exhausting experience for my peers and...
No regrets
By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III
“No regrets,” written by Edwin Batongbacal, is the last chapter (or the penultimate one, if we count the “Afterword”) of A Time to Rise:...
Fake news: up close and personal
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
It was only a few days after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) en banc found “Rappler, Inc., and Rappler Holdings Corporation, a mass...