Toying with DDR: Bong Go’s Bridge to Nowhere
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go has joined Senate President Jose Miguel Zubiri in the latter’s soapbox for a Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) by filing Senate Bill 188 in the...
Category: Opinion
Toying with DDR: Zubiri must not fix what ain’t broke
Solidarity for Sovereignty By Ado Paglinawan Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri’s insistence on an “office with cabinet rank” to take over the idea of a Department of Disaster...
Progress and Suicide
By Prof. Celso Cainglet The last time I was in China I was mesmerized by the progress, the innovation in science and technology, the high-tech environment and...
The US Pacific Pivot That Just Went PFFT!
By Mauro Gia Samonte Part 1 “The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action.” Thus did in...
Rightsizing of Government Must Start with Abolition of the Senate
By Ado Paglinawan The President’s push for the rightsizing of all agencies, departments, and government-owned or controlled corporations, with no exemptions, must start with our fat legislature...
Amboys’ Anti-China Smears Exposed
By Herman Tiu Laurel On July 17, 2022 the Philippine Daily Inquirer headlined a complete and total lie about China’s loan assistance to the Philippines, blaring loudly and shamelessly...
The Need for a Genuine Independent Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World
By Anna Malindog-Uy
A changing and evolving world order from a unipolar world to a multipolar one is fast approaching and forthcoming.
The unipolar world that was predominantly unchallengedly...
Withdrawn or Renegotiation?
By: Prof. Anna Malindog-Uy Friday (15 July 2022), Usec. for Rails Cezar Chavez of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said that China has withdrawn funding for three big-ticket railway projects...
NTF-ELCAC & ‘Red-Tagging’ Under New PBBM Admin
The result of the latest PUBLICUS survey is a resounding affirmation that the successes of the Duterte administration and its priority programs should be continued by the new administration under...
China-Philippines’ Crucial Cooperation in Food Production
By Herman Tiu Laurel One of the major crises stemming from current geopolitical tensions that the world is facing today is the global fertilizer shortage threatening food production and mass...
PBBM’s First Stop: China
By Herman Laurel FROM the past to the present, although almost half-a-century has passed, Philippine-China relations is moving forward in positive leaps-and-bounds. Reviewing some of the deep...
Sinophobic Locsin mothballs oil, gas deal
By Ado Paglinawan, journalist, book author and director of the Asian Century Philippines Institute and the Philippine BRICS Society Who has been nursing DFA Secretary Locsin’s sinophobia? Cartoon...