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This road to success has a name
by Iris Gonzales - August 23, 2026 - 12:00am
It was a fitting tribute to the legacy of Big John, the Gokongwei Group founder whose riches-to-rags-to-riches story continues to be told in every Robinsons Land Corp. mall, condominium, hotel; in every Cebu...
Scrap Robin Padilla Law
by Iris Gonzales - August 20, 2026 - 12:00am
It was devastating to hear about another shooting incident in our schools, yet another disturbing sign of the times.
P1.78-T flood control budget down the drain
by Iris Gonzales - August 18, 2026 - 12:00am
Do you know how much the government has allocated for flood control over the last 10 years?
Gabby Lopez eyes another Lopez company
by Iris Gonzales - August 16, 2026 - 12:00am
With an P11-billion war chest, Gabby Lopez is now his own white knight.
What will Gabby Lopez do with P11 B?
by Iris Gonzales - August 13, 2026 - 12:00am
It would have required at least a dozen large maletas, bodyguards to carry the suitcases and SUVs with armed escorts to transport the cash but this was not that kind of deal.
Ramon Ang, the cavalry of one
by Iris Gonzales - August 11, 2026 - 12:00am
And there it is: the announcement has been made.
Slowest in five years
by Iris Gonzales - August 9, 2026 - 12:00am
To understand what’s happening under Marcos 2.0, I’ve turned to Greek mythology or those ancient stories of gods, heroes and monsters, which the Greeks told themselves in an attempt to understand the...
The wage hike conundrum
by Iris Gonzales - August 6, 2026 - 12:00am
At a small food kiosk near our place, I had a chance to talk to the owner who told me he was actively looking for a new spot because his lease is higher than prevailing market prices – more expensive by roughly...
Electric coops
by Iris Gonzales - August 4, 2026 - 12:00am
President Marcos’ populist promise to remove the system loss charge is facing severe backlash, given the complexity of the problem.
At Sheraton Cebu: Wellness heals people – and the planet
by Iris Gonzales - August 2, 2026 - 12:00am
When Thel Abiera was a young boy of around six or seven years old, his grandmother, who was suffering from an ailment affecting her cervix, taught him to caress her lower back while dabbing it with an ointment she...
Fox Sili...silly...ka
by Iris Gonzales - August 2, 2026 - 12:00am
It could either be a really evil thing to descend upon the country or a panacea for our ailing economy.
Beyond system loss
by Iris Gonzales - July 30, 2026 - 12:00am
President Marcos was loudly applauded during his fifth State of the Nation Address  several times, but especially when he promised to remove system loss charges from electricity bills. The crowd that gathered...
State of the nation, the economy
by Iris Gonzales - July 28, 2026 - 12:00am
It is an eerily quiet morning in Quezon City as I write this, as it usually is when a sitting president delivers the State of the Nation Address.
Where truth shines in business
by Iris Gonzales - July 27, 2026 - 12:00am
In this era of misinformation and disinformation, untruths and half-truths and outright fake news, the challenge is no longer gathering information – it is discerning what is true.
Run, Vico, run
by Iris Gonzales - July 26, 2026 - 12:00am
I hope Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto runs for the Senate next year.
White knight makes down payment on Lopez empire
by Iris Gonzales - July 23, 2026 - 12:00am
The Lopezes’ white knight has made an initial payment to secure its planned entry into the empire, in a move that could, for better or for worse, see the end of the Lopezes’ control of the conglomerate...
Semirara mine’s fate
by Iris Gonzales - July 21, 2026 - 12:00am
Everyone is watching with bated breath the upcoming bidding for the contract to operate the sprawling Semirara coal mine in Antique, which will likely happen this month, Energy Secretary Sharon Garin said.
Racist
by Iris Gonzales - July 19, 2026 - 12:00am
There’s no other way to describe what China Daily did when it depicted us Filipinos as monkeys. It is what it is – racist and uncalled for.
RSA, MVP and the future of ABS-CBN
by Iris Gonzales - July 16, 2026 - 12:00am
Will the much-talked-about and highly anticipated white knight for ABS-CBN, in true chivalric tradition, arrive soon enough to save the media giant from its financial troubles?
MVP: The measure of a life
by Iris Gonzales - July 14, 2026 - 12:00am
The singular Manuel V. Pangilinan has built a sprawling empire whose businesses intertwine with the lives of every Filipino.
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