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BREAKTHROUGH

The chief of the Philippines’ economic team Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has told business journalists that while the Philippines may be behind other regional economies at this time in bouncing back from the malaise […]

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DESPITE DOUBTS

The chief of the Philippines’ economic team Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has told business journalists that while the Philippines may be behind other regional economies at this time in bouncing back from the malaise […]

Book Review

THE COMMITTED — A NOVEL

By Viet Thanh Nguyễn Pulitzer winner of The Sympathizer Hardcover, 345 pages, 2021. Grove Press (Grove Atlantic) I didn’t read The Sympathizer (2015) which won a Pulitzer, so I was curious to read this sequel. […]

Book Review

WHERE THE PAST BEGINS – A WRITER’S MEMOIR

Heart-wrenching memoir by longtime bestseller and awarded author Amy Tan of “The Joy Luck Club”, “The Valley of Amazement”, and  “The Hundred Secret Senses”. “Joy Luck Club” was a year-long NYT bestseller which gained many […]

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ECONOMIC RECOVERY BEGINS AUGUST

August 2021. That is how early Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda sees the beginning of an uptick in the Philippine economy.  It is also the month when the global economy begins to shift its […]