Book Review

Audrey Hepburn – A life of beautiful uncertainty

Every year there’s an Audrey Hepburn book. Most of them are just photographs with some text, which avid fans like me adore. This is the first book on Audrey I’ve seen that is sized like […]

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A failing and dying democracy

By Tony Lopez At the celebration of Constitution Day, Feb. 10 at the Manila Polo Club, retired Chief Justice Reynato Puno declared: “Democracy all over the world is on the decline, including democracy in the […]

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When rulers are deaf and blind

By TONY LOPEZ Our politicians, our public servants, are deaf and blind.  They do not hear the sentiments and wishes of our people.  And if they ever hear the people, our politicians simply ignore the […]

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PROFICIENCY COLLAPSE

The world’s super “bobos” (idiots) By TONY LOPEZ The Filipino child is one of the most malnourished, most stupid, and most incompetent children in the world. Nine in ten Filipino kids cannot understand what they read […]

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RSA and SMC

By TONY LOPEZ I have covered San Miguel Corp. mostly relentlessly, in my 56 years of economic and business journalism, thru its various management teams and controlling stockholders –the legendary Don Andres Soriano Jr. (ASJ), […]