The Philippines reaffirmed its commitment to expand two-way trade and investment ties...
Friday, 18 June, 2021
Joel Reyes Zobel
By Joel Reyes Zobel Actually, hindi po ito una sa Tagaytay. Ginawa na ito sa Albay ng pumutok ang bulkang Mayon. Ang paniwala nuo ng dating Albay Governor at ngayo’y...
By Joel Reyes Zobel Ang pagbabasa at maintindihan kung ano ang binasa ang ibig sabihin ng reading comprehension. Ang pagiging matatas ang sukatan ng kagalingan ng tao na maintindihan ang...
By Joel Reyes Zobel Tigil putakan sa SEA Games, makatutulong ba sa imahe ng Pilipinas sa mata ng mundo? Pwede, pero superficial effect o mababaw lamang na paraan ito para...
Ipinag-utos na ng Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang walang humpay na pagpasok ng imported na bigas sa bansa. Ang kautusan ay inilabas ng Pangulo para maibsan ang problema ng mataas na...
“Huwag mo naman i-discriminate kaming mga Bisaya na kumakain ng mais bilang pan-saing”. Yan naman ang bungad sa akin ni Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol sa aking panayam sa kanya sa...
Huwag ho kayo magkakamali, pero ako ay kakampi ng war on drugs ng Pangulong Duterte. Nakikiisa po tayo sa adhikaing matuldukan ang problema ng iligal na droga sa bansa at...
Perry Diaz
By Perry Diaz Five-five hundred years ago, the first Austronesians migrated from South China to Taiwan. It took another 1,500 years before they migrated to the Philippines. In my column, “Who...
By Perry Diaz Barely a few days after being sworn in as Secretary of State, Antony Blinken spoke with counterparts in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe. The calls included discussions of...
By Perry Diaz As I am writing this column, President Donald Trump has only two days left in his presidency. Then he will go into retirement. It must be hard...
By Perry Diaz Once again, President Donald J. Trump played the game of “chicken” when he held up the $900 billion COVID relief stimulus bill by demanding that direct payments...
By Perry Diaz For four years, we saw the meteoric rise of Donald J. Trump from a reality show producer to the President of the United States. That’s a quantum...
By Perry Diaz On February 22, 2017, Chinese president Xi Jinping vowed for the first time that China should take the lead in shaping the “new world order” and safeguarding...
Monsi A. Serrano
By Monsi A. SerranoBangladesh, Zimbabwe, Ghana and other developing countries have just kicked off their respective vaccination programs as of this writing. At this time, too, the Philippines continues to...
By Monsi A. Serrano Last week, I expressed my opposition to the planned opening of cinemas and arcades, the reasons for which can be read by clicking this link: https://thephilbiznews.com/beyond-sight-sit-back-relax-and-get-covid/...
In photo: Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines His Excellency Koshikawa Kazuhiko By Monsi A. SerranoPhotos by Manuel N. Roma/THEPHILBIZNEWS Japanese Ambassador Koshikawa Kazuhiko has expressed admiration for the Filipino people’s caring deeply for one another...
By Monsi A. Serrano The plan to open movie houses and other entertainment centers in places under general community quarantine or GCQ shocked and worried me, given the fact that...
By Monsi A. SerranoThe pandemic has brought us down to our knees literally and figuratively. Literally, because many have knelt down in prayer, now more spiritually mindful of what will happen to them...
By Monsi A. Serrano The pandemic should spur love, understanding and compassion. But while many people seem to be hopeful and bullish for the year 2021, vaccine diplomacy in the Philippines...
Atty. Josephrally Chavez Jr.
By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. An income or any inflows into the hands of the taxpayer other than a mere return of capital may either be a taxable income,...
By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. Donation in its simplest term is an act of generosity, big-heartedness, or a charity at that. Legally speaking, it is the act of liberality...
Why Wait for the Tax Amnesty? By Atty. Josephrally L. Chavez, Jr. A tax amnesty is a general pardon or intentional overlooking by the State of its authority to impose...
A certificate of stock is a written instrument signed by the proper officer of a corporation stating or acknowledging that the person named in the document is the owner of...
Another thing that is certain, of course, it is tax. While the power to tax is inherent in every state, in our jurisdiction,”to tax or not to tax” is primarily...
Taxes are what we pay for an orderly, refined, advanced, humanized and developed society. Taxes are what we pay for the existence our government. Taxes are what we pay literally...
Butz Bartolome
By Armando "BUTZ" Bartolome Have you adjusted to the “new normal”? What are the changes that you need to do to be able to adapt to our current situation? Has...
By Armando "BUTZ" Bartolome Starting a business may not be possible for everyone due to some factors such as determining how to set up a business, dealing with various challenges...
By Armando "BUTZ" Bartolome The other day while watching a popular telenovela I saw a string of commercials of various businesses. I must have lost count of the number. However,...
By Armando O. Bartolome For the “millennials”, the greatest gifts that technology may have given to them are laptops, desktops, smartphones and tablets. You may never find anyone without a...
By Armando O. Bartolome The other day while watching a popular telenovela I saw a string of commercials of various businesses. I must have lost count of the number. However...
By Armando "BUTZ" Bartolome I always start my day with a prayer thanking the Lord for giving me another chance at life, see new opportunities and be with my loved...
Manuel Morato
By Manuel L. Morato We are well aware of how the entire world is after the vaccination of its people because of the so-called Coronavirus/Covid 19 pandemic. But before anyone...
By Manuel L. Morato It was said by a Catholic priest in the United States last October 2020, Reverend Father James Altman, before the November 3 elections that “one cannot...
By Manuel L. Morato It seems, based on my reading the reports worldwide, the higher the effectivity of the brand of the vaccine, the more deaths it has caused. I...
By Manuel L. Morato Barring “Special Permits” from the then Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte Alimurung, it is clear that all indications point to abuse of powers what we are going...
By Manuel L. Morato Now that your family owns the property of my parents in our compound, in connivance with our youngest brother, Jose L. Morato, a partner of your...
By Manuel L. Morato If indeed the vaccines will be sampled on our people before allowing us to buy the vaccine, may I suggest that the vaccines be tested on...
Robert Roque
If there is one good move Donald Trump made before leaving the White House, it must be his administration’s America First-style acquisition of anti-COVID vaccines. It paved the way for...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Tomorrow (Feb. 19), Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is opening the 20-year supply contract for 1,800 megawatts (MW) of power to bidders. I cannot overemphasize the...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. Here’s a question. For an administration that has, thus far, filed 60 diplomatic protests against Chinese incursions in the West Philippine Sea, how comfortable is...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. I wish I could say that his bark is worse than his bite as a way of defending the integrity of an esteemed general who...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. The intention of the Child Car Seat Law is beyond question. If anybody wants to argue a child's safety inside a vehicle against road crash...
By Robert B. Roque, Jr. In 1974, Deng Xiao Ping, who would later lead after Ma Tse-tung’s demise and be known as “the man who made Modern China,” spoke before...
