OF TREES AND FOREST The most successful entrepreneurs don’t accept defeat; they face challenges and fight until they turn their dreams and vision into reality. That is the difference between success and failures. The latter happens only when you give up. This is the reason why I keep telling...
FINDING ANSWERS The appalling data cannot be ignored: 95 Filipino children die daily from malnutrition, 27 out of every 1,000 children do not get past their fifth birthday, one-third of all children here are stunted or short for their age, and stunting after age two can be permanent, irreversible...
PEACE-MAKER In April 2016, the organizations of political parties of Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Africa convened for the first time in Jakarta to explore ways and means of economic and political cooperation among our three continents. The historic (in a sense) meeting was held among...
PEACE-MAKER Since early 2020, we have been spending most of our time in our Dagupan City home, which is a short walking distance from the Lingayen Gulf, where General Douglas MacArthur and, earlier, General Masaharu Homma landed on Jan. 9, 1945 and Dec. 22, 1941, respectively. To this day, we...
OF TREES AND FOREST It was such an emphatic word to describe the relationship between the Philippines and the United States especially given the tensions in the region and the complicated past of the two nations’ bilateral relations. But this was how President Joseph Biden described his...
FINDING ANSWERS On Mother’s Day last Sunday, troubling news broke out anew: Around six to seven Filipino women die while giving birth or during pregnancy. “Women die because sexual and reproductive health services are unavailable, inaccessible, unaffordable or of poor quality,” according to...
PEACE-MAKER The city of our birth, Dagupan, by the edge of Lingayen Gulf, lies close to the pilgrim town of Manaoag, where devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is a faith cast in stone. Our earliest memory of our town was an area of lowlands in the midst of swamps nestled by the South China Sea. In...
OF TREES AND FOREST The changes around us are simply dizzying. We have restaurants using robots to serve food. We can now pay with our smart phones instead of physical, tangible money. Some supermarkets, including ours, have automated check-out counters. I just read about the wonderful...
FINDING ANSWERS The worldwide audience was fascinated last Saturday with all the symbolism, glitter, and pageantry dating back to medieval times at the coronation of King Charles III. In this age of live streaming and social media, it certainly was a spectacle dubbed once-in-a-generation. Just like...
PEACE-MAKER Cambodia makes history as it hosts for the first time the 2023 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which is currently being held in capital Phnom Penh from May 5 to 17. It was supposed to host the games in 1963 but did not push through due to the political situation in the country at the time....
OF TREES AND FOREST What accounts for the ups and downs of popular support for democracy? One would think that if a country has a strong democratic culture then preference toward democracy would at least be stable and consistent. Just for comparison, the Social Weather Stations pointed out that in...
FINDING ANSWERS It’s definitely an idea whose time has come. The need for Filipino students to be taught about the significance of our exclusive economic zone (EEZ), officially known as the West Philippine Sea (WPS), and the 2016 Arbitral Award that invalidated China’s 9-dash line claim over...
