The Economy

ECONOMY STILL DEPENDENT ON PEOPLE’S SPENDING

ADB’s Asian Development Outlook 2018 report released April 11, 2018, projects 6.8 percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for 2018, faster than the 6.7 percent rate in 2017. The economy will grow further, by 6.9 […]

Spotlight

COOPERATE, COORDINATE AND COLLABORATE

By PRESIDENT RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE (Speech delivered during the opening ceremonies of the BOAO Forum for Asia at the BFA International Convention Center, Hainan, China, April 10, 2018) His Excellency President Xi Jinping and Madame […]

Government

A GENERAL’S DISRUPTION

As director general of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority, Brigadier Gen. Charito “Ching” B. Plaza is, in effect, trying to reinvent the wheel, or to put it mildly in today’s lingua franca, disrupting a successful […]

Ivy Digest

BITCOIN AND BLOCKCHAIN. WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

In November 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto shared his paper on a cryptography blog where everyone is identified only by their online names. He invented an electronic payment system called Bitcoin where users can pay each other […]

Politics

QUIT OR OUT

Imagine, Rep. Rey Umali told the Rotary Club of Manila last March 22, if Maria Lourdes Sereno were still chief justice in the next 12 years. Sereno is the chief justice who the Judicial and […]