Eight firms under the SM group of companies received Golden Arrow Awards from the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) for performing well in the ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard (ACGS). In a statement, the conglomerate said this is an assessment benchmarked against international best...
Century Properties Group Inc. announced that Jose Roberto “Robbie” R. Antonio has resigned as Co-Managing Director and Member of the Board, effective immediately. In his letter to the CPG Board on February 20, 2021, Antonio said his departure will allow him to focus on resolving the issues in...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “O Jesus, send me a wound to-day” — Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English poet and novelist, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918), Stand-to Good Friday Morning Swearing “Ma-tetano ka sana!” (“I pray you get tetanus!”) quickly...
There’s so much to look forward to Longtime foreign correspondent from the Philippines Gabino Tabuñar Jr. Old means different things to different people. Children consider their 20something parents as old. What is old and why do many people fear it while a few successfully even enjoy its...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks delivered at the Special Video Conference of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties Women’s Wing, February 24, 2021, Wednesday.) Iconic women leaders in global politics In recent years, many iconic women...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “What is vertigo? . . . It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.” – Milan Kundera (1929-), French - Czech writer, The Unbearable Lightness of Being...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The “Four Way Test,” of what we Rotarians think, say, or do in the Rotary Creed include the following: First: “Is it the Truth?” Second: “Is it Fair to All Concerned?” Third: “Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendship?”...
Valentine season is also the season for broken hearts. After all, does one ever fall in love without having one’s heart broken? As our National Hero Jose Rizal put it, “He who would love much has also much to suffer.” No wonder, falling in love is an event likened to a drop from a certain...
Central Azucarera de San Antonio (CASA), a sugar mill owned by the Chan family of Iloilo, is planning to a P558.5-million public offering of shares although these will not be listed at the stock exchange. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show, CASA is controlled by the...
Seven members of the SM Group of Companies, led by flagship SM Investments Corporation (SMIC), clinched 10 awards for their high scores in the recently concluded 2019 ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard (ACGS) assessments. For the 2019 ACGS Assessment, three award categories were recognized:...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The UN, US, G-7, and many other countries and international organizations expressed either condemnation or grave concern over the military takeover in Myanmar and the detention of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint,...
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr. “People brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a cot.” – Matthew 9:2, Common English Bible. To injure the spine and what it protects, the spinal cord, upends a life in an instant. If you break your neck with the cord crushed, everything...
