ENDEAVOR The past year ended not with a bang or a whimper but with a strong whiplash, as described by the Associated Press in this dispatch: MANILA - Thousands of people in the Philippines remained in emergency shelters in the wake of devastating Christmas flooding, as the death toll climbed to 51...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Nobody wanted it to happen, but it did. There will be time for a comprehensive analysis of what went wrong and the factors that caused the breakdown, and for demanding accountability. But it is imperative that steps be taken to rebuild what is apparently a system that needs to...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Sometime in my past life as a business newspaper columnist, I paused to reflect. What is it that prods me to write in a way that was critical, or even cynical? I realized that I was swimming with the tide and riding the wave of criticism against the powers-that-be and how they...
Endeavor, the leading global community of high impact entrepreneurs, has unveiled the Philippine Multiplier Map to show how these firms reshape the entrepreneurial ecosystem since the community was established in 2014. The Philippine Multiplier Map intends to trace the footprint and the impact made...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma My closest experience with a spontaneous celebration of a football World Cup championship happened in 2002. While riding a tour bus in Lisbon, Portugal, I witnessed a motorcade of jubilant fans celebrating Brazil’s 2-0 victory over Germany. Honking their horns, they shouted...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “The wild future of artificial intelligence” was the catchy title of the Atlantic Daily newsletter’s email that prompted me to reflect on AI’s emergence in the forefront of the digital revolution. Associate editor Isabel Fattal and staff writer Derek Thompson talked...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “One year ago, 58-year-old Harold Lumictin, his wife and their six children were made homeless when their house was destroyed by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked the Island of Bohol in the Philippines. In total, 222 people died and more than 670,000 families were...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In keeping with its commitment to serve as an exponent of Philippine progress, the Manila Bulletin is conducting its first Sustainability Forum that focuses on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework that has been adopted by many corporations. ESG builds on...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In 10 days, Nov. 10 to 19, three significant meetings of global leaders will have taken place in Asia: first, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; second, the Group of 20, or G20, summit in Bali, Indonesia; and third, the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Nine years ago on Nov. 8, Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) swept across the Visayas and Palawan. In terms of one-minute sustained winds, as estimated by the Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Weather Center, it was the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2013. In...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “The average age of the Filipino farmer is 57 years old.” A few years ago, a billboard along the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) declared this in an apparent effort to make passersby aware of the waning interest in Philippine agriculture. In a research paper written for the...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) gave the world an exemplary lesson in citizenship education – more commonly known as Civics 101–on Tuesday, Oct. 25. In well within two hours, network television depicted the seamless transition from an...
