THIS weekend, the heads of most of the world’s major multilateral development banks (MDBs) are meeting at the Asian Development Bank here in Manila, following the World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund annual…
A PLUNDER charge is grave, so prosecutors must prove it carefully. In the case over P75 million in campaign donations to Sen. Rodante Marcoleta, the Ombudsman must show more than a large transfer or irregular…
’Smuggling is smuggling, whether it is P10 million or less,‘ the BOC chief stressed.
IN his State of the Nation Address in 2024, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced a total ban on Philippine offshore gaming operations, or POGOs, saying they had become hotbeds of criminal activities, such as human…
Don’t just buy a pail to collect rainwater before the very strong El Niño.
KISHORE Mahbubani, the founding dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, last week told an audience at the Ateneo de Manila University that the rivalry between the United States and China is the defining…
Whether it is standing in gridlocked metropolitan traffic, watching grocery bills climb alongside daily electricity rates, enduring sudden power outages, searching underfunded public hospitals for basic medicines or…
EVERY morning, millions of Filipino entrepreneurs open their stores, operate their businesses, employ workers, pay taxes, serve customers and pursue dreams. They do so despite rising prices, expensive electricity…
Even for apolitical Filipinos who would rather get on with their lives than watch the circus by the bay, the decision of the prosecution panel to withdraw three Articles of Impeachment in the trial of VP Sara Duterte is…
EVERY morning, millions of Filipino entrepreneurs open their stores, operate their businesses, employ workers, pay taxes, serve customers and pursue dreams. They do so despite rising prices, expensive electricity…
There’s one undeniable consequence of the prosecution’s dropping of three articles of impeachment and resting its case against Sara Duterte: it significantly shortens the proceedings.
WITH the rehashed brouhaha about Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr.’s renounced Maltese passport, I look at our reaction (mostly negative from those who don’t have a second passport or golden visa and silence from…
Remember when onions made many Filipinos cry?
MERRIAM-WEBSTER dot com defines gaslighting as “psychological manipulation... that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality or memories, and typically leads to confusion…
THE Museo ng Kaalamang Katutubo, located in Mandaluyong, is a museum where the material culture of Indigenous people is in focus. The museum’s mission is to give vital data about the cultural objects of our Indigenous…
“GASLIGHTING” is everywhere. A friend disagrees with your recollection of an argument: gaslighting. Your partner tells you that you are overreacting: gaslighting. A colleague says that your account of an incident is…
MUCH was revealed when financial forensic expert lawyer Alexander Cabrera testified before the Senate impeachment court. Among them were P600,000, which Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases “Mans”…
THE headline from Social Weather Stations’ (SWS) June survey was a good one. Net personal optimism — the share of adults who expect their lives to improve over the next 12 months minus the share who expect them to get…
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