What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
By Herman Tiu Laurel “What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?” The question is appropriate when applied to the...
Category: Opinion
SC Ruling on JMSU Legislates Dangerous Precedence Based on Fiction
By Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan Make no mistake about it, I am making this statement with all due respects to the Supreme Court. But hello IMHO, the recent ruling of the Supreme Court on the...
Philippines: Intriguing Supreme Court Ruling on JMSU, A Coincidence?
By Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy The recent ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) on the “Joint Marine Seismic Understanding (JMSU) Among the Philippines, Vietnamese, and Chinese Oil Firms”...
The Proxy War Plot and the SC
By Herman Tiu Laurel As I observe the reverberations from the Supreme Court’s controversial and suspiciously timed decision and announcement on the 2005 Joint Marine...
Mindanao’s development dreams
By Herman Tiu Laurel As I observe the reverberations from the Supreme Court’s controversial and suspiciously timed decision and announcement on...
Philippines President Marcos’s State Visit to China: Economic & Political Gains
By Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy The renaissance of the friendly and good bilateral relations between the Philippines and China despite existing differences is one of the legacies of former...
After state visit: Phil-China “Golden Age” glows
By Herman Tiu Laurel Barely a week has passed since the spectacular state visit of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr. into the open arms of China and the warm and brotherly...
Marcos Jr and China: Walking The Talk
By Herman Tiu Laurel President BBM came home to a host of problems, very urgent problems. I...
US fake news surge again for PHL pols and media
By Herman Tiu Laurel Some other Filipinos may still be taken aback by the recent surge of US and Amboy (American Boys) fake news, “mal-contexted” info (i.e. deliberately taken-out-of-context...
Alert: US-funded Philippine biolabs project
By Herman Tiu Laurel Some months back, I wrote about the US-funded biolab projects being conducted in U.P. Los Baños and posed the same questions now being raised by the...
Nowhere Fund Has Failed To Plan, Communicate; A Failure To Launch
The volatility of investing in the stock market is shown on how Philippine government financing institutions enumerated above have collectively lost P743 million in just three years due to bad...
The “independent foreign policy” charade
By Herman Tiu Laurel The looming event of significance for the Philippines is the coming state visit of President Bongbong Marcos, Jr. to China on January 3, 2023. Some people believe...