• Sara a multi-billionaire

    Sara a multi-billionaire

    By TONY LOPEZ Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte became awesomely rich while serving as vice mayor of Davao City from 2007 to 2010, and as its mayor from 2010 to 2013. During those years, transactions […]

  • Sara guilty of grave threats, sedition

    Sara guilty of grave threats, sedition

    By TONY LOPEZ After the July 14 and 15 hearings of the Senate Impeachment Court, I now conclude: One, Sara Duterte should revamp her defense legal team.   Two of its members have just incriminated her. […]

  • Milestones to make one optimistic

    Milestones to make one optimistic

    By TONY LOPEZ Three recent developments make me optimistic about the future, as a Filipino and as a citizen of this world. 1.    The World Bank has declared the Philippines an upper-middle-income economy, with a per […]

  • Panic in Sara’s camp

    Panic in Sara’s camp

    By TONY LOPEZ With her trial to begin on July 6, 2026, a heat wave has struck the camp of Sara Zimmerman Duterte, the first Philippine vice president to be impeached twice, by huge numbers, […]

  • AI AND THE FILIPINO

    AI AND THE FILIPINO

    By TONY LOPEZ Bad news: The Philippines will be slow in adopting artificial intelligence (AI) and its improvements—artificial general intelligence (AGI), and artificial general superintelligence (ASI). Good news: The Philippines will be slow in adopting […]

  • Senate President Win

    Senate President Win

    By TONY LOPEZ At 9:24 Wednesday morning June 17, 2026, Sherwin Ting Gatchalian, 52, was sworn in as the 34th president of the Philippine Senate, the third highest official of the land and the leader […]

  • SMC redefines resilience

    SMC redefines resilience

    By Tony Lopez The best is yet to come.  For San Miguel Corp., for its owners, for the customers it serves, and for Filipinos in general. That is the strong message delivered by SMC Chair […]

  • Marcoses wow the Japanese

    Marcoses wow the Japanese

    By TONY LOPEZ President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. probably made the most important state visit of his six-year presidency when he and First Lady Louise Araneta Marcos went to Japan, May 26-29, 2026 as guests […]