• The Philippines’ game-changing measures to improve business environment

    The Philippines’ game-changing measures to improve business environment

    By Ralph G. Recto Secretary of Finance (Keynote speech during the  Manila Overseas Press Club “Finance Night”, Fairmont Hotel, Makati, March 20, 2024) Mr. Tony Lopez, Chairman of the Metro Manila Overseas Press Club; distinguished […]

  • P170.6B NAIA PPP MODERNIZATION

    P170.6B NAIA PPP MODERNIZATION

    “AN INVESTMENT IN OUR FUTURE,” SAYS MARCOS JR. “This (NAIA Management) undertaking is not just about revenues that will be remitted to treasury alone, but resources invested in the airport and in many ways, it […]

  • SMC, MPIC form the biggest infrastructure company

    SMC, MPIC form the biggest infrastructure company

    By Tony Lopez San Miguel Corp. President and CEO Ramon S. Ang and Metro Pacific Investments Corp. Chair, President and CEO and Manuel V. Pangilinan are talking to merge their respective tollways operations—SMC Tollways (under […]

  • TOP MONEY MAKERS

    TOP MONEY MAKERS

    By TONY LOPEZ The best business in the Philippines today is banking.  Banks are hauling profits like there was no tomorrow.  By the billions per month.  A number of banks reported record profits ever. In the whole […]

  • One nation, one Constitution

    One nation, one Constitution

    By Tony Lopez Possibly the best Constitution Day ever was celebrated on Feb. 8, 2024, jointly by the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa) and Manila Overseas Press Club (MOPC), at Makati Shangri-la Hotel).  Some 450 guests came, […]

  • SMC offers P1 trillion to government to manage NAIA in the next 25 years

    SMC offers P1 trillion to government to manage NAIA in the next 25 years

    In RSA’s strategic visioning, San Miguel’s business is not beer, not beverages, not food, not flour, not feeds, not packaging, not gasoline and diesel, not energy, not tollways—but growth and development. With three airports—Bulacan, NAIA, […]

  • THE HOUSE DELIVERS

    THE HOUSE DELIVERS

    THE 19TH CONGRESS UNDER SPEAKER FERDINAND MARTIN G. ROMUALDEZ The most reform-minded Congress If things seem brighter, better and more buoyant these days for millions of Filipinos, they have President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and […]

  • An irrelevant Constitution

    An irrelevant Constitution

    By TONY LOPEZ On Feb. 2,1987, the 1987 Constitution was ratified. On Feb. 11, 1987, it came into force. Approved by the 48-member 1986 Constitutional Commission on Oct. 12, 1986, the 1987 Constitution was presented […]