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POLITICAL PARTIES CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW; WORLD NEEDS WISE MEN; NEED TO COMPLETE JOINT PROGRAM WITH CHINA ON DRILLING IN WEST PHILIPPINE SEA

By Jose C. de Venecia, Jr. Former Speaker of the House We are off to preside at the October 24-27 10th General Assembly of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) in Moscow, now […]

Government

NEEDED YESTERDAY: A NEW MANILA AIRPORT

Government should now give SMC the final go-signal  to build its $15B aerotropolis in Bulacan north of Manila The crash-landing of XiamenAir Flight MF8667 at 11:56 p.m. midnight of Aug. 16, 2018 brought into sharp […]

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PH LOSING THE RACE IN DOUBLE-DIGIT ARRIVALS

The Philippines is being pummeled by its ASEAN neighbors in the race to attract the lion’s share of the world’s tourists visiting Southeast Asia. In 2017, the Philippines had 6.62 million arrivals. That is a record […]

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 […]