ENDEAVOR In my boyhood days, I became aware of what the big city is like, as my parents took us along with them on bus rides along what was then called Highway 54, that brought us from our residence in Makati to their places of work in Camp Crame and Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. The important...
ENDEAVOR At this year’s graduation at the University of the Philippines Diliman, the number of honor graduates was, indeed, very high: 2,243 or nearly 69 percent out of 3,359 graduates; 305 of them summa cum laude, 1,196 magna cum laude; and 742 cum laude. In 2022, there were 1,433 honor...
ENDEAVOR “We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane society and establish a government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our...
ENDEAVOR President Ferdinand R. Marcos ended his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on an uplifting note. He extolled the Filipinos whose hard work, dedication, and integrity have enabled them to excel across many fields of endeavors worldwide: “My confidence in our future (is) grounded in...
ENDEAVOR Years ago, I experienced the vitality of Panay Island. I flew into Roxas City in Capiz to fulfill a Rotary speaking engagement, then made a road trip to Kalibo, Aklan for the return flight as I had to be back in Manila on the same day, owing to pressing government duties. I had visited...
ENDEAVOR “The world just had the hottest week on record, according to preliminary data,” the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), reported “after a series of scorching days saw global temperature records tumble” during the first week of July 2023, according to an Agence France Presse...
ENDEAVOR Some 800 senior media leaders – 40 percent of whom were women – from more than 70 countries and 800 companies gathered at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center last June 28-30 at the 74th World News Media Congress under the auspices of the World Association of News Publishers, or...
ENDEAVOR Responding to a classified ad for a bank magazine editor, I was interviewed for – and eventually landed – my first job in a bank nearly five decades ago. Last week, I spoke at the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) Strategic Human Resources Summit. The forum focused on...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “Tiwala ako, nasa eksena man ako o wala, patuloy na ipaglalaban ng Pilipino ang kayang kapwa at ha-hakbang sa landas tungo sa isang mas maaliwalas, mas patas, at mas maunlad na bukas.” (I believe that, whether I am around or not, the Filipino will continue to fight for his...
ENDEAVOR “The test of a first-rate intelligence,” notes Professor Damon Acemoglu, “is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” In an interview with BBC News’ Stephen Sackur, he questioned the proposition that technology...
ENDEAVOR Participants at a two-day Rotary Asia-Pacific Regional Editors Seminar at the Manila Hotel earlier this week were engaged in a lively dialogue by Dr. Federico Macaranas, a political economist who served as Foreign Affairs Undersecretary during the Ramos administration, and as faculty...
ENDEAVOR Last Monday, May 29, business leaders called attention to a learning crisis in the country “where nine out of 10 students aged 10 were unable to read simple texts” as shown in “dismal results in international assessments,” and at the same time, “child malnutrition and stunting...
