Of Trees and Forest

The word “future” in the title of this article should come with a caveat because many of the things I...

I wrote in my column last week on the importance of hosting the 31st ASEAN Summit amidst our transition from...

The Philippines is set to host next week the 31st ASEAN Summit, a semi-annual meeting of the leaders of the...

Last October 17, President Rodrigo Duterte declared the liberation of Marawi City from “terrorist influence.” It was a welcome end...

The World Bank report “Migration to Opportunity: Overcoming Barriers to Labor Mobility in Southeast Asia” also cited the fact that...

Last week, media outlets reported a World Bank study which praised the Philippines’ governance framework with respect to migrant workers....

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have indicated that the end to...

THEODORE Roosevelt has an interesting take on leadership: “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick...

Ronald Reagan, the late former president of the United States, once said, “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one...

Infrastructure-driven development has been the strategy that propelled many countries like the United States, France, Singapore, and China, to name...

THE United States, as I write this column, is bracing for the devastation of a mammoth hurricane in the state...

WHAT do you call a mother who, through no choice of her own, leaves her family in the Philippines in...

WE often use the terms businessman and entrepreneur interchangeably. I have been referred to sometimes as a businessman and at...

As a young entrepreneur, my ambition was straightforward – to build the most houses in the Philippines. After my first...

Congratulations to Congress and the executive branch for the passage of the law providing free education in all state universities...

I spent more than two decades as a legislator. In the years I spent at the Senate and the House...