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Gusto ko happy ka

THE WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT 2025 By TONY LOPEZ Filipinos have become happier.   They have never been happier now than at any time since COVID in 2020.  A dramatic improvement in happiness has been taking place […]

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The Ideal Senator

Heart. Brain. Beauty. Experience. The Future. Camille Villar is the future of governance.  She comes from a family of tycoons and public servants who have helped build the nation while building homes for the rest […]

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Duterte’s crime against humanity (CAH)

By TONY LOPEZ Rodrigo Roa Duterte panicked.  Late Friday, March 7, he heard from the grapevine that the three-person Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands had issued an arrest […]

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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 […]

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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 […]