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BIZNEWSASIA MARKS 18TH YEAR

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The Philippines’ largest business and weekly news magazine with a pass-on circulation of 350,000 readers honored top tycoons, taipans and public servants with excellence awards last Nov. 25, 2019. The BizNewsAsia 2019 Excellence awardees who received [...]

JOHN L. GOKONGWEI JR., 93

November 19, 2019 Comments Off

By Antonio S. Lopez “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” That is one of the most important lessons I learned from my good friend of many years, John L. Gokongwei Jr.. It is a […]

SPEED UP. SCALE UP: PHILIPPINES AMONG 100 MOST COMPETITIVE COUNTRIES

November 5, 2019 Comments Off

By Secretary Ramon M. Lopez – Department of Trade and Industry I have good news for you today. The World Bank has just released its Doing Business 2020 Report which shows our country’s remarkable improvement […]

BDO PRESIDENT-CEO NESTOR V. TAN

October 28, 2019 Comments Off

Topnotch banker Nestor V. Tan is the “Management Man of the Year” for 2019 of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP). Tan is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of BDO Unibank, Inc., […]

FELIX R. ANG: THE KING OF PREMIUM AUTO BRANDS AND LUXURY CAR SERVICE

October 28, 2019 Comments Off

In 1989, Felix R. Ang put up CATS Greenhills. It became known as the prime source for auto parts and accessories. CATS stands for Car Accessories Tires and Servicenter. After a few years, he had […]

SMART CITIES

October 14, 2019 Comments Off

By Architect FELINO PALAFOX, JR. Is the Philippines ready for smart cities? Basically, smart cities harness information and communications technology and integrate it with development planning to deliver more efficient and high-quality urban services that […]

PH COCONUT INDUSTRY A ‘SLEEPING GIANT’

October 8, 2019 Comments Off

By SEC. WILLIAM DAR – Department of Agriculture Can we call the coconut industry a sleeping giant? Its potential to help fight poverty cannot be discounted. It is the third most dominant crop, after rice […]

GOOD CONDUCT = JAILBREAK

October 4, 2019 Comments Off

You cannot say the Philippines is not a kind and caring society. Hardened criminals –murderers, serial rapists, drug lords and of course, plunderers—are given a second lease on life, literally and figuratively. Under President Gloria […]

THE GREATEST PROJECT IN PH

September 28, 2019 Comments Off

By Antonio S. Lopez It is the largest and greatest enterprise ever in the Philippines to be undertaken by any single company or group of companies in the nation’s history. San Miguel Corp., the country’s […]

MAJOR TAX CHANGES DUE

September 25, 2019 Comments Off

Of all Philippine presidents, Rodrigo Duterte is the most tax-reform oriented. That’s good. Why? Because tax avoidance (which is legal but is subject to so much graft) and tax evasion (which is illegal and is […]

REINFORCEMENTS: HOW TO GET PEOPLE TO HELP YOU

May 31, 2019 Comments Off

How do you ask? Learn the skill that gets people to help you. Asking is instinctive from infancy. The babies cry when they need something. As they grow, children become notoriously pesky askers. They don’t […]

HOW TO BE AN #INFLUENCER

December 28, 2018 0

An influencer is someone who has clout. He is usually famous or reputable. In the past decade, providers like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat have made it easier and faster to share photos and […]

EASTERN SAMAR LIBRARY THRIVES AFTER HAIYAN

November 28, 2018 0

In 2007, Regional Trial Court Judge Rowena Tan established a library in her hometown of Llorente in Eastern Samar. Llorente is a third class municipality with a yearly income of $700,000 to below $1m and […]

HOW A LAWYER BECAME AN INFLUENCER

December 4, 2019 Comments Off

Abigail Sotto Raines was a successful Ateneo lawyer for the Philippine Supreme Court and later the Senate, with a Master’s of Law from Oxford University. When kids came, she dedicated her full time to her […]

EXPLORING CALVIN AND HOBBES—AN EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

November 5, 2019 Comments Off

By Bill Watterson Interviewed by Jenny Robb Wide Flexibound, 152 pages, 2014. Andrews McMeel Publishing Many wish they grew up like Calvin—with an unfettered childhood and adventures in the wild. But no one wants to […]

FIFTY THINGS THAT AREN’T MY FAULT—ESSAYS FROM THE GROWN-UP YEARS

September 23, 2019 Comments Off

I’ve read memoirs written by comedy writers and comedians that were all disappointingly unfunny. This one is funny. Creator of the comic strip “Cathy”, which ran for 34 years, Cathy’s wit and wisdom sheds light […]