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75
On Nov. 25, 2023, I turn 75. The day also marks the 22nd anniversary of my BizNewsAsia weekly business and news magazine. And my 53 years of professional journalism. I consider it also my Thanksgiving Day.
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Digital, food, green energy
I was in Singapore for the Singapore Fintech Festival, Nov. 14-17, 2023. Just like my recent visit to the headquarters of a couple of Chinese tech companies in Shenzhen, China, one hour by bus from Hong Kong, I was...
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Art Panganiban
The Rotary Club of Manila honors today, as its guest speaker, the former jurist and chief Justice Art Panganiban.
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Shenzhen
On Nov. 8-11, 2023, I went to Shenzhen, by plane on Cathay Pacific from Manila to Hong Kong, and by car from Hong Kong to Shenzhen.
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Going digital
When Edwin R. Bautista became the president and CEO of UnionBank in 2018, he saw the future of the bank.
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Food
Francis Tiu Laurel, 59, is the new secretary of Agriculture, vice, President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., the Oxford-educated son and namesake of the president who achieved a rice surplus and launched the Green...
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Ben Diokno, Mr. Optimism
Amid increasing global headwinds and unprecedented challenges to the Philippine economy, Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno, the head of President Marcos Jr.’s economic team, seems to me, to be under siege...
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Journalism’s best, brightest, bravest and biggest names
The MOPC Journalism Awards have been a huge, stunning success.
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Clean energy
Good news: The global demand for the three major fossil fuels – oil, coal and natural gas – will decline. Demand for them will peak by the end of this decade, in 2030, according to the October 2023 World...
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The MOPC’s best journalists
For the first time in its 78 years, the Manila Overseas Press Club honors outstanding journalists and media organizations, local media’s best, bravest, brightest and most influential. A judgement of peers,...
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Phl has the money to thrive amid wars in Ukraine and Gaza
As mankind winds down the first quarter of the 21st century, the world is suddenly in the grip of two large regional wars –Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas.
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A letter from ARTA
Malacañang, through Senior PCO Undersecretary Honey Rose V. Mercado, sent on Oct. 9, 2023 a follow-up letter to the Oct. 3, 2023 letter of Secretary Ernesto V. Perez, director general of the Anti-Red Tape...
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A punching bag
In a series of hearings recently, senators took turns pummeling key officials and legal luminaries of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines.
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Good news, bad news
First the good news.
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Catching fire
The business permit (or mayor’s permit) in ten minutes paradigm is catching fire (pardon the pun, because fire extinguishers are among the requirement for such permits).
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10 minutes for permits mean government means business
Department of the Interior and Local Government BenHur Abalos should order his 1,500 town and city mayors to process business permits in 10 minutes or less. A business permit in 10 minutes is the best proof that...
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10 minutes for a business permit
Ten minutes.
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BF the hero
After he lost the Marikina mayoralty elections of 2022, Bayani Flores Fernando, the legendary construction magnate-politician, prepared himself for a life of ease and music, retirement and senior citizenship.
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A debacle
In 1975, although it won the war against the greatest military power on Earth, Vietnam was a devastated country.
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A breathtaking decline
Recent governments in the Philippines have exulted about the so-called robust economic growth.
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