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BIG, BOLD REFORMS: PH open for business

By TONY LOPEZ This one is for Ripley’s Believe It or Not.  The Investor Relations Office of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Department of Finance conducted a three-hour “Big, Bold Reforms” forum […]

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TIME TO ACT, PBBM

By TONY LOPEZ This 2026 is a watershed year for President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. (BBM), a decisive year of either great achievements or great disappointments, an annus mirabilis or an annus horribilis. This […]

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THE NEW NAIA 2026

By TONY LOPEZ In 2025, Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) handled 52.02 million passengers, a new high and breaking the previous record of 50.1 million chalked up in 2024, also scored under the new airport […]

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US interest in Asia: Business, not war

By TONY LOPEZ The Philippines and the US are close allies.  That’s the theory.  The Philippines is the only and oldest defense and treaty ally of the US in Asia.    Under the Mutual Defense Treaty […]

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Suicide by the dynasties

By TONY LOPEZ How do you tell the clans that control 70% of Congress to go, kill themselves? And how do you tell the families that control 80% of all local governments to go drown […]