ENDEAVOR Donald Trump’s second inauguration last Monday, Jan. 20, prompted me to share with readers this piece on recollections and experiences involving US Presidents and Philippine Presidents. No. 206 Cleveland Street was the address of the home in Makati where I grew...
ENDEAVOR Our Sunday Bulletin Business section last Jan. 12 included two highly informative feature stories. The first, headlined “Filipino workers demand more than just a job,” and the second on “How students are turning creativity into careers” signaled to me that, indeed, as Bob...
ENDEAVOR Two seminal works — Yuval Noah Harari’s “Nexus” and Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revenge of the Tipping Point” — offer profound insights into the complexities of our modern world. Harari explores humanity’s “network problem,” highlighting our failure to wisely wield the...
ENDEAVOR Brought up by parents who were lifelong government employees, and having worked in the government, too, I have realized the important contributions of workers in government in the life of the nation. I write this while noting the high tide of negative sentiments generated by the...
ENDEAVOR From August to mid-December, the Quad Comm hearings at the House of Representatives have garnered high public attention. Manila Bulletin’s live-stream coverage videos on YouTube are witnessed by a huge audience, breaching the million mark several times. By the time the committee...
ENDEAVOR Mary Jane Veloso’s homecoming yesterday, Dec. 18, culminates a nearly 15-year saga that began in 2010 when, as a 25-year-old young mother, she was brought by local recruiters first to Malaysia, then to Indonesia, where she landed in prison and was convicted to die by musketry, after...
ENDEAVOR Witnessing Pope Francis place the red hat on newly consecrated Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David – only the 10th Filipino to receive the honor – prompted me to reflect on the challenge of promoting more vocations in our predominantly Christian nation. Last month, while participating in a...
ENDEAVOR Will there be another EDSA People Power Revolution? This question popped up last week as the political temperature sizzled in the aftermath of Vice President Sara Duterte’s widely viewed video message following the detention of her chief of staff, on orders of the House quad-committee...
ENDEAVOR Nicknamed Babes as he is the sixth and youngest child, former Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Lazo Singson received earlier this week the Management Person of the Year award from the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP). In his acceptance speech,...
ENDEAVOR Filipino Management Ethos: Pathways to Shared Prosperity, a forum presented by the Diwa-Kapwa Advocates, will be held today at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati City. As one of the convenors, I wish to share with readers why and how this forum came about. Let’s...
ENDEAVOR Corazon Dayro Ong began cooking and selling longanisa-filled siopao to her neighbors some 50 years ago, to help her husband Jose ‘Pepe’ Ong augment the family income. As she gained confidence from increasing patronage, they set up a modest meat processing unit in their family...
The government’s anti-illegal drugs campaign is zeroing in on the sources of the illegal substance. The illegal drug trade is now operating under more sophisticated methods with the use of technology that allows implementation via online control. This technology is familiar with...
