• GLOBAL TESTS FOR 15-YEAR-OLDS

    GLOBAL TESTS FOR 15-YEAR-OLDS

    The state of learning and equity in education By the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) PISA is a triennial survey of 15-year-old students around the world that assesses the extent to which they have […]

  • A success story

    A success story

    BBM IN 2023 By Tony Lopez Marcos Jr. has had a successful foreign policy.  The Philippines is a “friend to all, enemy to none”.   That means plainly, Manila is back under the cozy orbit of […]

  • Diokno to CEOs: PH economy fastest growing

    Diokno to CEOs: PH economy fastest growing

    By Antonio S. Lopez At the Nov. 25, 2023 22nd anniversary dinner of BizNewsAsia, Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno painted a bullish outlook for the economy.  The head of the economic team of President Marcos […]

  • Digital, food, green energy

    Digital, food, green energy

    By Antonio S. Lopez I was in Singapore for the Singapore Fintech Festival, Nov. 14-17, 2023.  Just like my recent visit to the headquarters of a couple of Chinese tech companies in Shenzhen, China, one […]

  • Shenzhen

    Shenzhen

    By Antonio S. Lopez On Nov. 8-11, 2023, I went to Shenzhen, by plane on Cathay Pacific from Manila to Hong Kong, and by car from Hong Kong to Shenzhen. After four days touring Shenzhen’s […]

  • ERB: The Bold Digital Visionary

    ERB: The Bold Digital Visionary

    When Edwin R. Bautista became CEO of UnionBank in 2018, he saw the future of the bank.  It had to go digital. UB must not only grow.  It must grow big.  It must not only […]

  • Journalism’s best, brightest, bravest, and biggest names

    Journalism’s best, brightest, bravest, and biggest names

    By Antonio S. Lopez The “MOPC Journalism Awards” have been a huge, stunning success. On Oct. 25, at the gala event attended by journalism’s best, brightest, bravest and biggest names, 11 individuals and three major […]

  • PH has the money to prosper amid wars in Ukraine and Gaza

    PH has the money to prosper amid wars in Ukraine and Gaza

    As mankind winds down the first quarter of the 21st century, the world is suddenly in the grip of two large regional wars –Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas.  Both have the unpredictable potential of flaring into larger […]