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Last week, I hosted in my home Olympic gold medalist Carlos Yulo. He was a special guest at a dinner I organized for First Lady Liza...

With the US elections just concluded, many people have been asking me, what will this mean for the Philippines now that Donald Trump is...

Last week, I was part of a small group of businessmen invited to meet with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. With us were...

Last week, I went to a local trade fair to support my youngest daughter’s new business. Bella – who’s tried her hand at being an...

Last week, I had the opportunity to catch up with Dr. Ted Herbosa. Dr. Ted was one of our Go Negosyo advisers during the pandemic. He,...

After being away for about a month, I made it a point to mark my return trip with the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ABIS). This...

Now that I am about the same age as my dad when he was in the thick of being active in civil society while balancing his duties at RFM,...

Not a few have noticed that lately I’ve been talking a great deal about social media and digital technology. I’ve said in many interviews...

We’ve been getting a lot of interest about The Boardroom Experience, our new initiative over at Go Negosyo. Basically, we invite to...

Fair winds and following seas are every sailor’s dream; one cannot ask for better conditions than calm waters and favorable winds guiding...

I never fail to say that without its mentors, our advocacy at Go Negosyo would not have succeeded as well as it did. Mentorship, after...

Last week, I had 20 senior high school students from two public schools here in Metro Manila as guests in the RFM boardroom. The visit...

We are on the cusp of change in our country’s economy. I say this because we now have a woman entrepreneur leading the Department of...

I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with the winners of the 2024 Go Negosyo Most Inspiring Microentrepreneurs Awards last month....

Last week was meaningful in many ways, and it is only upon reflection that I realized how significant it was. Last Monday, exactly a week...

The President could not have picked a better person to lead the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) when he named Cristina...

When the President dropped the bombshell on banning POGOs at the tail end of his State of the Nation Address last week, he quickly...

Today will be President Marcos Jr.’s third State of the Nation Address and I will be following the events from Bali, where I flew this...

This week has been a whirlwind of activities. We celebrated MSME Development Week together with the Department of Trade and Industry and...

I had been traveling again last month, and one of the stops we made as a family was to Fontainebleau, near Paris, France. My daughter...