Learning from Japan and improving Philippine infrastructure
By Victor C. Manhit
In the last 15 years, the Philippines’ population density has gone up by more than a third or by 32%. According to figures reported...
Protection of women employees
By Paulo N. Rabanal
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap (GGG) Report conducted in 2016, the Philippines is the most gender-equal country in the Asia-Pacific...
Welcome to the Age of Vulgarity
By Greg B. Macabenta
When then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte called His Holiness Pope Francis, “putang ina ka,” because Duterte got stuck in traffic due to the Pope’s...
Yes, we are changing: Backwards
By Benjamin R. Punongbayan
IN THE PAST, I wrote occasionally, but went into hibernation for a year, because I had turned to searching for some...
Financing the Future
By Richard Graham MP
The Philippines is a beautiful country, filled with potential and opportunity.
As the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to the Philippines, I...
Kuala Lumpur, Incheon, JFK airports, and lessons for the Philippines
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
“Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) is the worst airport in the world” is a cliché that we often hear...
Can Business Save Capitalism?
By Niceto S. Poblador
Capitalism today is going through a major crisis, one which is characterized by a gradual disintegration of the global economic and political order that...
How I see it
By Rafael M. Alunan III
In 1972 I gave martial law a chance to prove itself.
The first 2-3 years were peaceful and orderly that gave hopes to a promising...
Isn’t that a celebrity?
By A. R. Samson
On working days, famous people just go about their business hobnobbing with their peers, and doing whatever it is they’re famous for, public office,...
Why protests matter
By Miguel Paolo P. Rivera
I am often asked by my students on why protests matter, given that (based on what they’ve observed), these very rarely work at all....
Older persons are key players in global development
By Shamshad Akhtar
As the proportion of the older persons across the Asia-Pacific region increases exponentially, we must seek out new and innovative approaches to...
Who’s Afraid of a Weak Peso?
By Raul V. Fabella
Once upon a time, I was a co-panelist of Mr. Ronnie Concepcion in a program hosted by Ms. Kris Aquino. I don’t remember what...