• PH’s four major problems

    PH’s four major problems

    Philippine food prices are the highest in 100 years. In first quarter 2024, if you bought rice at the farm, you paid the farmer P24.82 per kilo, the highest in recent recorded history, and a […]

  • The assassination attempt on Donald Trump

    The assassination attempt on Donald Trump

    By TONY LOPEZ Donald J. Trump, bleeding profusely on his upper right ear, blood criss-crossing his reddened face, yet the former president looking defiant, his right fist pumped into the air as he hollers “Fight!  […]

  • BUNGLED BASIC EDUCATION

    BUNGLED BASIC EDUCATION

    By Tony Lopez That is the marching order given by President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. to his new Education secretary, Harvard Law-educated Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, 52. That means a stronger focus on the 3Rs of basic […]

  • Five things BBM did in two years

    Five things BBM did in two years

    By Tony Lopez On June 30, 2024, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. completed the first two years of his six-year presidency. In two years, Marcos Jr. did five things: One, he unified the country.  Two, […]

  • San Miguel today, tomorrow

    San Miguel today, tomorrow

    “We focus on industries on which the country’s future depends…protecting our natural resources and creating strong, cohesive communities where every Filipino has equal access to a better future. This means forging ahead with projects that […]

  • War in West Philippine Sea

    War in West Philippine Sea

    By Tony Lopez Since 1988, the Philippines and China have been quarreling over six pieces of reefs whose total land area, thanks to unbridled Chinese reclamation, today has expanded to a total of 1,253 hectares, […]

  • Who in the world is Alice Leal Guo?

    Who in the world is Alice Leal Guo?

    Nobody can tell us, not even Alice herself Bamban Mayor Alice Leal Guo enabled the largest POGO hub in Central Luzon. She owns the sprawling 8-hectare complex at the back of her City Hall on […]

  • Recto: Genuine, inclusive growth by 2028

    Recto: Genuine, inclusive growth by 2028

    PH is ASEAN’s brightest star;GDP to reach $1 trillion by 2033 By Ralph G. Recto      Secretary of Finance (Keynote speech during the Philippine Economic Briefing in Manila, Philippine International Convention Center, May 27, 2024) […]