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First Lady Liza Marcos at Rotary Club of Manila

by Tony Lopez - November 5, 2026 - 12:00am

The Rotary Club of Manila is making history today.

Bobo na, magnanakaw pa

by Tony Lopez - November 3, 2026 - 12:00am

Bobo na, magnanakaw pa. (“Stupid or incompetent and a thief as well”). I declared during my Bilyonaryo TV appearance Thursday, Oct. 29.

Project Airbag

by Tony Lopez - October 31, 2026 - 12:00am

Taipan Henry “Big Boy” Sy Jr. hosted a rare impromptu Chinese lunch for senior business journalists at upscale China Blue restaurant in the family’s five-star Conrad Hotel Thursday. He...

Relevance

by Tony Lopez - October 29, 2026 - 12:00am

At the 175th anniversary gala dinner of the country’s oldest financial institution, Bank of the Philippine Islands, chairman Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, 69, and president TG Limcaoco, 63, defined what it...

Dead meat

by Tony Lopez - October 27, 2026 - 12:00am

By the all the rules of the political game, Sara Zimmerman Duterte should by now be damaged goods; dead meat. Or the pariah of Philippine politics. And ousted pronto as vice president, never to be allowed...

‘Alagang Ayala’

by Tony Lopez - October 24, 2026 - 12:00am

Amid a grim economic environment, the Philippines’ oldest conglomerate, Ayala Corp., still manages to create excitement across significant sectors of business.

Sara Duterte’s popularity myth

by Tony Lopez - October 22, 2026 - 12:00am

One of the myths about Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte is that she is a cinch for the presidency in May 2028.

China panics

by Tony Lopez - October 20, 2026 - 12:00am

China is in panic.

Bruno Mars

by Tony Lopez - October 17, 2026 - 12:00am

I take a respite from toxic impeachment and adopt the following column of my lawyer-daughter Ivy as my column:

All about money

by Tony Lopez - October 15, 2026 - 12:00am

In the end, it was all about money.

The end is near

by Tony Lopez - October 13, 2026 - 12:00am

The House impeachment prosecution panel has concluded its presentation of evidence to convict Sara Zimmerman Duterte and oust her as the country’s vice president.

Cesar Virata, 95

by Tony Lopez - October 10, 2026 - 12:00am

The Philippines’ foremost technocrat and first prime minister, Cesar Emilio Aguinaldo Virata, died on Oct. 2, 2026. Born Dec. 12, 1930, he was 95.

Francis Lim at SEC

by Tony Lopez - October 8, 2026 - 12:00am

There is a new man at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Sara’s dirty money

by Tony Lopez - October 6, 2026 - 12:00am

Amid seeming boredom among the populace and among the hard-working judges of the 20-senator Senate impeachment court, the trial of Vice President Sara Z. Duterte has entered its most crucial chapter.

The GCash phenom

by Tony Lopez - October 3, 2026 - 12:00am

The price per share of the Philippines’ biggest e-wallet, GCash, was pegged at P6.60 on Oct. 1, 2026.

It’s the corruption, stupid

by Tony Lopez - October 1, 2026 - 12:00am

It’s the economy, stupid.

Political stability

by Tony Lopez - September 29, 2026 - 12:00am

On Friday night, Sept. 25, 2026, I was a moderator at the MOPC Senate Night with Senate President Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian as guest of honor and speaker.

Catharsis

by Tony Lopez - September 26, 2026 - 12:00am

From ancient Greek tragedies is the word called catharsis.

Toxic Sara

by Tony Lopez - September 24, 2026 - 12:00am

In my 56 years of journalism, I have never seen a political personality who has so riven the body politic as to divide, bitterly, the nation at large.

Truth, fairness, common sense

by Tony Lopez - September 22, 2026 - 12:00am

Truth, fairness, common sense.

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