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THE GREATEST YEAR FOR GREAT BANKING
By Antonio S. Lopez 2024 has been the best year for Philippine banking, the region’s oldest banking system. And 2025 might prove even better, if only slightly, despite unprecedented geopolitical challenges of the worst trade […]

Why and how we became incompetent and corrupt
By TONY LOPEZ Two provisions of the 1987 Constitution explain why our government became very incompetent and very corrupt, resulting in the most breathtaking economic decline in Asia, from the region’s second richest or even […]

Comelec to manage three polls
By ATTY. GEORGE ERWIN GARCIAChairman, Commission on Elections (Speech before the Rotary Club of Manila, Feb. 6, 2025) Good afternoon to everyone. Mr. President, the officials, and members of the Rotary Club of Manila. The […]
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POLITICS

KAMALA D. HARRIS VS. DONALD J. TRUMP
THE ELECTION THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD By Tony Lopez The outcome of the Nov. 5, 2024 American presidential election will surely change the world. For better. Or for worse. The world will be a […]
BUSINESS

BATTLE OF THE BEST AND BIGGEST
SMC and SM fuel the Philippines’ robust economic growth The Philippines’ two largest conglomerates are powering the country’s robust economic growth this year and in the coming years. Both having demonstrated unprecedented expansion in the […]
IVY DIGEST

Made in Asian America revives a forgotten history
I’ve never liked history because it’s old and boring. And I could never relate to a far-off land like America, even though they colonized the Philippines for 50 years. I love indexes, so I quickly […]

Whoopi’s memoir is an homage to her exceptional mom
Bits and Pieces – My mother, my brother, and meBy Whoopi GoldbergHardcover, 247 pages, 2024.Black Stone Publishinghttps://amzn.to/3ADwCeo Who doesn’t know Whoopi Goldberg? She is as unforgettable as her stage name. I first saw Whoopi in […]

US Cities with a Soda Tax show lower BMI in youth and obese
A new study found that four California cities that adopted a soda tax saw a significant decrease in Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is used by doctors to measure the amount of body fat. The […]