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No permit, no charger

By Marvin Tort
I went to the Legazpi CarPark in Makati recently and saw its electric vehicle charging bays. That morning, a couple of the slots were...

Even bankers have to listen to their inner human

A FEW YEARS AGO the world might have moved on after Standard Chartered Plc boss Bill Winters referred to job cuts as replacing 鈥渓ower value, human capital鈥 with 鈥渇inancial鈥 and 鈥渋nvestment capital鈥 through technology.

Just a metaphor

By Tony Samson
鈥淧ARADIGM鈥 comes from Latin, paradigma 鈥 to compare, to show alongside something else. A paradigm then is a metaphor. Shifting a paradigm means changing...

The economic significance of Filipino seafarers: The state of the shipping industry

By Bernardo M. Villegas
The demand for Filipino seafarers will grow as maritime trade continues to expand as it bounces back from the global crisis resulting from the US-Iran conflict in the Middle East.

Rethinking deterrence beyond land, sea, and air

By Victor Andres C. Manhit
Defense security used to be immensely simpler. In the past, it meant protecting a country鈥檚 territorial integrity across land, air, and sea. Depending on...

NACHO is on, but memory chipmakers鈥 rally isn鈥檛 over

THE NOTHING-BURGER that came out of the Xi-Trump summit drove home a new reality for global investors. The NACHO trade, which stands for 鈥渘ot a chance Hormuz opens,鈥 is on. Prospects of prolonged inflation have risen, sending global bond yields higher and the US dollar stronger.

Streamlining the accreditation for donee institutions

By Rozina E. Salcedo
It is an enshrined policy in our Constitution for the State to encourage non-governmental, community-based, or sectoral organizations that promote the welfare of the...

What鈥檚 in your drinking water?

By Chit U. Juan
Have you ever thought about how industry cleans its influent water to make it effluent and finally cleaned and treated so you can use...

A proposed budgeting code 鈥 but where are the guardrails?

By Florencio B. Abad
The proposal to adopt a Philippine Budgeting Code is both timely 鈥 and long overdue. For decades, the country鈥檚 budgeting framework has been held together...

On energy inflation, market suspension, power disruption, and Leviste鈥檚 solar inaction

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
We have four topics to tackle here so we go straight to the numbers and facts, starting with energy inflation. While our overall inflation last...

A 鈥榮uper El Ni帽o?鈥 Why it鈥檚 too early to forecast one with certainty, but...

By Pedro DiNezio聽 TALK of a 鈥渟uper El Ni帽o鈥 developing in 2026 is gaining momentum, with concerns rising that this climate pattern could bring extreme...

Design and asymmetric war today

By Marian Pastor Roces
(Part Two) Following on from Part One*, it bears adding that Ukrainian drone designers deployed, constantly recalibrated and redirected design, retested, and redeployed during actual...
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