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Trump to tax remittances

by Boo Chanco - May 19, 2025 - 12:00am

First, they dismantled USAID and obliterated foreign aid.

Answered prayer

by Boo Chanco - May 16, 2025 - 12:00am

Last Monday, I wrote that we needed a miracle. I didn’t sound too hopeful that a miracle would happen.

Getting out of poverty

by Boo Chanco - May 14, 2025 - 12:00am

I received an email about how former beneficiaries of the 4Ps program have topped government licensing examinations recently.

We need a miracle!

by Boo Chanco - May 12, 2025 - 12:00am

We are voting today for 12 senators, 254 congressmen, 63 party list representatives and thousands of LGU officials.

A Pope for our times

by Boo Chanco - May 9, 2025 - 12:00am

The death of Pope Francis was expected given his frail health. But I still received the news with shock and sadness. He was a Pope for our times, the most relevant Pope in my lifetime. He worked to guide his flock...

Gross national happiness

by Boo Chanco - May 7, 2025 - 12:00am

Finance Secretary Ralph Recto welcomed Fitch Ratings’ recent affirmation of our BBB credit rating with a ‘Stable’ outlook.

Writing off our future

by Boo Chanco - May 5, 2025 - 12:00am

Our political leaders over the past 70 years have plenty to atone for.

Blackout in Spain

by Boo Chanco - May 2, 2025 - 12:00am

Spain’s power grid ran entirely on renewable energy for the first time on April 16, 2025, with wind, solar and hydro meeting all peninsular electricity demand during a weekday. Then last Monday, at 12:35 p.m.,...

Wallflower

by Boo Chanco - April 30, 2025 - 12:00am

If the Southeast Asian economic scene was something like your high school junior-senior prom, the Philippines will be the consistent wallflower.

National priorities

by Boo Chanco - April 28, 2025 - 12:00am

I have long wondered if our national leaders had the right national priorities guiding them.

Of elephants and mice

by Boo Chanco - April 25, 2025 - 12:00am

“When elephants fight, the mice scamper.” When super powers clash, smaller nations must take cover.

Beyond corporate social responsibility

by Boo Chanco - April 23, 2025 - 12:00am

There is no need for us to have a tycoon or a CEO in Malacañang for quick results.

Our economic elites

by Boo Chanco - April 21, 2025 - 12:00am

We have reached a point where depending mainly on the government to lift our nation from the pits is no longer realistic.

The Lamb of God

by Boo Chanco - April 16, 2025 - 12:00am

Have you ever wondered why the Scripture refers to Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God? Why compare Jesus to a docile lamb? Why not a lion? Or some other animal that suggests power and majesty?

Come to the Philippines

by Boo Chanco - April 14, 2025 - 12:00am

Here is a bit of good news coming out of the gloom and doom of Trump’s disastrous tariff increases.

BBM’s legacy?

by Boo Chanco - April 11, 2025 - 12:00am

With barely a month before the midterm elections and three years to the end of his term, it is strange to see that there is hardly a whimper from the Palace about big legacy projects that will help BBM redeem his...

Reacting to the tariff

by Boo Chanco - April 9, 2025 - 12:00am

It’s been a week since Trump’s Liberation Day of atrocious tariff increases, which affected all countries including islands whose only population are some penguins.

Trade war

by Boo Chanco - April 7, 2025 - 12:00am

It was showtime last week for Donald Trump’s trade extravaganza.

Following rules

by Boo Chanco - April 4, 2025 - 12:00am

We Pinoys are not known for a predisposition to follow rules.

Can we feed ourselves?

by Boo Chanco - April 2, 2025 - 12:00am

If we are talking about the very basic task of feeding our people, for all intents and purposes, we have lost the first three years of BBM’s administration. BBM knew agriculture was going to be his most urgent...

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