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By TONY LOPEZ Our politicians, our public servants, are deaf and blind.  They do not hear the sentiments and wishes of our people.  And if they ever hear the people, our politicians simply ignore the people’s demands and wishes.  They play deaf.  Worse, our politicians are playing blind or are totally blind.  They cannot see…

The world’s super “bobos” (idiots) By TONY LOPEZ The Filipino child is one of the most malnourished, most stupid, and most incompetent children in the world. Nine in ten Filipino kids cannot understand what they read (World Bank, 2025), and over 70% do not meet minimum proficiency in mathematics, placing the Philippines at the bottom globally…

By TONY LOPEZ I have covered San Miguel Corp. mostly relentlessly, in my 56 years of economic and business journalism, thru its various management teams and controlling stockholders –the legendary Don Andres Soriano Jr. (ASJ), his son Andres Soriano III (AS III), Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. (ECJ), and since early 2000, under Ramon S. Ang…

By TONY LOPEZ This one is for Ripley’s Believe It or Not.  The Investor Relations Office of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Department of Finance conducted a three-hour “Big, Bold Reforms” forum for investors yesterday at Shangri-La BGC.   But media was banned.  Three reasons Why? Three reasons: I texted the above to…

By TONY LOPEZ This 2026 is a watershed year for President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. (BBM), a decisive year of either great achievements or great disappointments, an annus mirabilis or an annus horribilis. This early, the signs are daunting and easily intimidate the faint of heart and low in spirits.  Unless he makes the…

By TONY LOPEZ In 2025, Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) handled 52.02 million passengers, a new high and breaking the previous record of 50.1 million chalked up in 2024, also scored under the new airport management, the New NAIA Infra Corp. (NNIC) of industrial giant San Miguel Corporation headed by CEO Ramon S. Ang. The…

By TONY LOPEZ The Philippines and the US are close allies.  That’s the theory.  The Philippines is the only and oldest defense and treaty ally of the US in Asia.    Under the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951, an attack on one is an attack on the other.  If you attack the Philippines, it is like…

By TONY LOPEZ How do you tell the clans that control 70% of Congress to go, kill themselves? And how do you tell the families that control 80% of all local governments to go drown themselves into rivers unprotected by ghost flood control projects? Answer:  Ask them to endorse a genuine anti-dynasty bill. An anti-dynasty…