HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz A banking industry report said that "as of September, 2020, the total operating income of universal and commercial banks in the Philippines amounted to approximately ₱601.7 billion. Operating income is the company's profit after deducting operating expenses in the country.”...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz These times, one may think that the idea that “civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the the military” is no longer relevant or fashionable, considering the growing role of retired and active generals in our national life. In this time of rampant red-tagging, some...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Students don’t live in a vacuum, wherever they may be enrolled. They are citizens too. They witness or experience what other citizens witness and experience daily – inadequate mass transport, high prices of goods, official incompetence, and other outcomes of injustice,...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Critical thinking is perhaps the single-biggest thing that sets students of the University of the Philippines and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines apart from others. Critical thinking requires academic freedom and other fundamental freedoms both for the teachers and...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz An American president once famously described America as a shining city on a hill. But in 2021, that description seems to have passed with time and circumstance. More facts are coming out of all the videos and documentation coming out of the US Capitol siege. The...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and other American leaders have called it an insurrection and domestic terrorism. In a phrase familiar to survivors of US military interventions worldwide, it was an attempted coup d’etat. We never imagined seeing anything like it in...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz No one can top the achievements this year by Filipino doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers. They should be Filipinos of the Year for 2020 in any credible list. Every patient who recovered from COVID-19 is a result of the collective efforts of entire teams of doctors,...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz One of the most graphic and most gripping accounts of the first Christmas and Jesus’ early childhood comes from evangelist Matthew. And if I may add, most relevant especially now. The first part of Matthew’s chapter two is already quite familiar: the traditional “Belen”...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz The Philippine Bar Association this week said it is concerned that certain courts have become “warrant factories”. While the country’s largest voluntary lawyers’ group did not specify the particular courts, its statement indirectly referred to the mass arrest on Human...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Mass vaccination against the coronavirus started this week in the United Kingdom, with a Filipino nurse administering the vaccine. Many Filipinos could only say: “Sana all.” Some time earlier, the Japanese Parliament passed a law ensuring that all residents of Japan, citizens...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz I’m sorry to break it to you, but this seemingly difficult time is a great time to be a progressive. The avalanche of fake news about the nature and objectives of activism and all sorts of social engagement even by non-activists provide us an opportunity to explain and to...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz Ever wondered how and why TV, radio, online and print media, including this newspaper, get to decide what is news at any given time or day? What’s the criteria? What’s in an event or a person that they make it to “breaking news,” “nagbabagang balita,” or live...
