A RECENT Philippine Star report, citing Bank of America (BofA), stated that the Philippines holds the weakest external position in Southeast Asia. In short, the “weakest link” in Southeast Asia…
The article titled “The Philippines May Lose P30B from Zero-Tariff Deal on U.S. Goods,” published in BusinessWorld on September 17, 2025, sheds light on a controversial policy move that could…
ON Sept. 27, 2025, I was invited to speak at the symposium “Retrospect and Prospect: Fifty Years of Philippines-China Relations” held at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. The event, co-organized…
In the hills of Guizhou Province, where the Chishui River carves its way through misty valleys, lies a town that tells a story far richer than its famous spirit. Moutai…
THE Sept. 26, 2025, Senate Blue Ribbon hearing didn’t just add to the massive flood control corruption scandal; it blew a wider hole under Malacañang. Across successive hearings, testimonies have…
On September 23, I had the privilege of speaking at the 2025 Belt and Road Media Workshop Sharing Symposium: Exploring Guizhou, where 24 media practitioners from 20 countries gathered. It…
CORRUPTION is not just an issue of dirty money changing hands. It is a malignant force that robs livelihoods, drowns communities and erodes the very foundations of our Republic. Every…
So here we are again, folks. Manila is now negotiating a defense cooperation pact with Ukraine—yes, that Ukraine, the one currently locked in a full-blown war with Russia, backed to…
FILIPINOS know floods. What we didn’t know, at least not in this kind of detail, was how much the flood control budget itself had become a river of money washing…
The maneuvering in the Philippine Senate has reached new acrobatic heights, and one can almost hear the clatter of chess pieces being moved around a board that the public never…