DEAR EDITOR, regarding the letter of the spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines to the editor titled “One China principle brooks no...

GLOBAL trade is under threat. Whether or not you call the current situation a trade war, certainly the first shots have been fired. This calls for our attention, and most importantly, our action.

Just recently, Transparency International Philippines (TI), one of the leading civil society actors advocating good governance and accountability, celebrated 25 years of anticorruption work in the Philippines. Together with the Stratbase ADR Institute, a virtual town hall discussion was held to highlight the emerging pandemic of corruption and the role that civil society must play in this “new normal.”

(Part 2) It was a happy coincidence that my hosts in Puerto Princesa booked me in a hotel downtown called Aziza Paradise Hotel, a Filipino-owned...

CHINA’S tech giants have upended the country’s payments system and promise to shake up its consumer-banking sector. The rest of the region won’t be so easy.

OVER the past 15 years, the Philippines has been one of East Asia’s most dynamic economies. Growth was fast, inclusive, and spatially balanced. Public investment in infrastructure surged, and reforms attracted private capital. As highlighted in the Philippines Growth and Jobs Report launched by the World Bank earlier in July, investment (or capital accumulation) accounted for nine out of every 10 dollars of GDP growth.

Southeast Asia’s internet economy is expected to be worth $330 billion by 2025, Reuters reported recently, slightly down from a previous forecast of $363 billion after considering prevailing economic uncertainties as well as pressure on tech companies to make a profit. Reuters cited a yearly report by Alphabet’s Google, Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings, and global business consultants Bain & Company.

PUTTING OUT wildfires serves to teach lessons on how to handle their metaphorical counterpart in media. Forest fires like those that break out in...

The COVID-19 pandemic impelled local companies, such as those in the Information Technology-Business Process Management (IT-BPM) sector, to transition from onsite work to work-from-home (WFH) arrangements.