HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz A banking industry report said that "as of September, 2020, the total operating income of universal and commercial banks in the Philippines amounted to approximately ₱601.7 billion. Operating income is the company's profit after deducting operating expenses in the country.”...
Because ‘women can choose and create their own destinies’ Motherhood is a lifetime journey that is full of surprises. And probably one of the most nerve-wracking parts of this journey is when our children start to create their own path and eventually fall in love. How does a single mother...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Historically speaking, Cuba is our sister republic. Both of us were colonies of Spain and launched our anti-colonial movements at the same time. In fact, Jose Rizal and Antonio Luna wrote to each other about the Cuban revolution; Rizal observed that the Cayo Hueso (Key...
Nico Elorde, Jervy Cruz and Paolo Taha are flanked by team manager Bonnie Tan and agent Danny Espiritu after being given contract extensions by NorthPort on Tuesday. (Photo from Danny Espiritu) NorthPort signed veteran forward Jervy Cruz and guards Nico Elorde and Paolo Taha to contract...
Geneva Cruz Fans of Sarah Geronimo are not happy that OPM artist Geneva Cruz is also being addressed as another pop royalty. Geronimo's fans believe that the title only belongs to her. But some netizens think that Geronimo's fans are over-reacting this way. On Twitter Feb. 6, a netizen...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz These times, one may think that the idea that “civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the the military” is no longer relevant or fashionable, considering the growing role of retired and active generals in our national life. In this time of rampant red-tagging, some...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta When the presidential elections in the USA were over, I felt it was time to unglue myself from You Tube and go back to listening to local news on AM radio. But when Capitol Hill was attacked on 6 January, breached and occupied by what looked like a...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Students don’t live in a vacuum, wherever they may be enrolled. They are citizens too. They witness or experience what other citizens witness and experience daily – inadequate mass transport, high prices of goods, official incompetence, and other outcomes of injustice,...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta “Maybe, I will have to leave the country,” former US President Donald Trump said, jokingly, in one of his super-spreader rallies. He firmly believed that there was only a one in a quadrillion possibility that he could lose the 3 November elections. Well, he did...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Critical thinking is perhaps the single-biggest thing that sets students of the University of the Philippines and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines apart from others. Critical thinking requires academic freedom and other fundamental freedoms both for the teachers and...
LANDSCAPE The United States of America is no longer a ship at full sail, it seems. Although I am not a US citizen, I am afraid for President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as their lives are and will always be in constant danger. They are the moving targets of...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz An American president once famously described America as a shining city on a hill. But in 2021, that description seems to have passed with time and circumstance. More facts are coming out of all the videos and documentation coming out of the US Capitol siege. The...
