The Philippines is like a country that dismantled its arms industry in peacetime and then finds itself, again, at war. In 1973, when the...

Last Tuesday, April 28, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that they will be out of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)...

AT THE RISK of betraying the generation one belongs to, a look back at socializing among young people in the 1960s was the practice...

South Korea has been consistently one of the Philippines’ top trading partners. It is one of the leading markets to which the Philippines exports semiconductors and electronic devices, which constitute 60% of our total exports.

Over the years, the Balikatan Exercises — which this year began on April 20 — has taken on an evolving meaning. Initially involving only...

At our recent Management Association of the Philippines General Membership Meeting in Cebu, one framework stood out for its clarity and urgency. It came...

A WAR in the Middle East probably wasn’t what Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney had in mind in Davos earlier this year, when he made a pitch for the world’s so-called middle powers to join together in a world defined by increasingly aggressive military juggernauts.

For years, reformers have spoken of “Open Banking” and “Open Finance.” These are important ideas, but they sound technical and distant. What the Philippines...

THERE WAS A TIME when Tokyo felt light years ahead of the world. The flip phone I used in the 2000s was a marvel to every American I showed it to, packed with features far beyond anything on the US market. 

It has been two months now since the US and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. So I reviewed the prices of energy and...

LET’S BEGIN with a simple question that rarely gets a straight answer: What would victory over Iran actually look like? In Washington and Jerusalem, the answers tend to sound definitive: eliminate Iran’s nuclear capability, break its regional power, perhaps even force political change at the top. It’s the language of decisive war, the kind with a clear endpoint.

THE LEGENDARY American bank robber Willie Sutton spent 40 years robbing banks because, as he claimed in his autobiography, he loved doing it. And when asked why he chose banks of all places to rob, he allegedly replied “Because that’s where the money is.”