Philippine News

I hope I do not speak too soon when I say that the Philippines has been spared from the surge that has been (and is still being...

The dust has barely settled on the May 9 elections and already we are seeing and hearing so many divergent views. It is mostly fueled by...

Next week, the Philippines will elect a new president, along with other national and local officials. Highly charged and emotional is an...

The Philippines has done quite well during the pandemic. The success that we see is the greater mobility of people outside of their...

We have stepped up our campaign to push booster vaccinations. In truth, it was never a question of if, but only of when. I have been...

It has been almost a week since our first in-person Mentor Me On Wheels event, and I must say, it still gladdens me to recall the...

Confidence is contagious. If we show confidence, we, in turn, inspire confidence in others. As we move forward from this pandemic, it is...

Madeleine Albright’s passing last March 23 brought back memories of our meeting in July 2017. I sat beside her at a private dinner hosted...

During my stay in the US, I had a chance to see first-hand how the Americans are handling the transition to normalcy. Early in our visit,...

Now that the NCR and most major cities and provinces remain on Alert Level 1 until the end of the month, we can take some time to step...

In a meeting I had early this week with the private sector and the experts from OCTA Research, it was clear that we still have work to do...

Out of the frying pan and into the fire. This pretty much sums up the sentiment of the world as the Russia-Ukraine conflict sent...

As presidential adviser on entrepreneurship, I took on the cudgels for the MSMEs and advocated for a policy that would make it easier for...

As one of the scientists from OCTA Research pointed out during one of our meetings, a pandemic is more than a medical or biological...

In a recent phone conversation I had with Health Secretary Francisco Duque, I explained why and how we should eventually adopt a public...

In order to understand something, one has to turn away from it on occasion. This much I found was true during my visit to the US. I...

We met recently with OCTA Research and some members of the private sector to come up with a proposal on how the Philippines can start...

After two years of not taking a plane or a break, I recently decided to join my family and fly to San Francisco. I have been told that...

This week, I issued an open letter to the unvaccinated. I was prompted by the increasing number of unvaccinated people getting very ill...

During a lunch I hosted earlier this week for OCTA Research, whose team has guided us with expert advice on the pandemic, I had the...