ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma At the Basic Education Summit convened by the Department of Education (DepED) this week, both President Marcos and Vice President Duterte, who is also education secretary, emphasized the government’s determination to do what is needed to ensure that the country’s youth...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Two Asia-Pacific leaders, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, provide contrasting profiles of leadership that students of political science would consider noteworthy. Jacinda Ardern, now 42 years old, became the world’s...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma The triumph of Filipino-American Miss USA R’Bonney Gabriel at the Miss Universe pageant last weekend landed on the front page of the Manila Bulletin. A designer-entrepreneur, she wore an evening gown designed by a Filipino couturier. Just below, the headline of another...
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 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 “The real wealth of nations consists of the contributions of people and our natural environment.” Thus wrote Riane Eisler in her pathfinding work, the Real Wealth of Nations, Creating a Caring Economics (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007). This was one of my references...
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...
