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VIRTUAL REALITY
Farm spies and romances
by Tony Lopez - September 19, 2024 - 12:00am
It seems the Senate hearings on the case of Alice Guo (Guo Hua Ping) and her ilk are reaching a dead end.
Rice and a party
by Tony Lopez - September 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Today, Tuesday, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the Manila Overseas Press Club has Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel as its guest of honor and speaker during the MOPCA Agriculture Forum at the Fairmont Hotel...
Food
by Tony Lopez - September 12, 2024 - 12:00am
Having dispatched his pesky Vice President (you know her) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary BenHur Abalos and the Philippine National Police having executed the stunning arrest of...
Arrest
by Tony Lopez - September 10, 2024 - 12:00am
In four days, the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. made two major and sensational arrests.
Humans, AI and dreams
by Tony Lopez - September 5, 2024 - 12:00am
On Monday night, Sept. 2, 2024, I heard one of the best speeches ever. Manuel V. Pangilinan, the president and CEO of PLDT, Meralco and Metro Pacific Investments Corp., three corporate colossuses, talked about the...
JDV
by Tony Lopez - September 3, 2024 - 12:00am
On Aug. 26, 2024, the Senate of the Philippines did something monumental, if not unusual. The 24-member chamber unanimously paid tribute to five-term speaker of the House of Representatives Jose de Venecia Jr.
Q/A with Gokongwei
by Tony Lopez - August 29, 2024 - 12:00am
I recently sat down for an hour-long televised interview with JG Summit Holdings Gokongwei Group CEO Lance Gokongwei, the affable Wharton-educated double summa (Finance and Applied Science). Excerpts:
Top central bankers
by Tony Lopez - August 27, 2024 - 12:00am
New York-based Global Finance magazine has chosen Bangko Sentral Governor Dr. Eli Remolona Jr. as one of the world’s 25 best central bankers for 2024.
PU-PU-litika!
by Tony Lopez - August 22, 2024 - 12:00am
On Aug. 20, fireworks flared up at the Senate finance committee hearing on the P2-billion 2025 budget of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte, an eight percent increase from 2024.
Miracle man
by Tony Lopez - August 20, 2024 - 12:00am
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. has a miracle man. 
The budget
by Tony Lopez - August 15, 2024 - 12:00am
In 2025, as Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. enters the third year of his six-year presidency, the administration will spend P15.80 billion a day of people’s money – your money, our money.
Economy in good hands
by Tony Lopez - August 13, 2024 - 12:00am
In a two-week period, late July and early August, I interviewed more business titans than I did in any two-week period in the past 54 years of business journalism – Teresita Sy Coson, vice chair, SM Investments...
Caloy’s GOAT
by Tony Lopez - August 8, 2024 - 12:00am
The Greatest of All Time.
Gold, genes and golds
by Tony Lopez - August 6, 2024 - 12:00am
Did you know that the Philippine government budgeted only P52 million to prepare, train and send our athletes to the Paris Olympics?
Floods, money, banking and credit
by Tony Lopez - August 1, 2024 - 12:00am
In July 1972, Manila Bay and Lingayen Gulf had a date in Central Luzon. It became what a British author described as northern Luzon’s “most serious floods recorded or remembered by man…775 persons...
Manila’s floods; Olympics mocks ‘The Last Supper’
by Tony Lopez - July 30, 2024 - 12:00am
Rains and floods – unprecedented floods – spoiled the post-SONA aura of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.’s third State of the Nation Address, which was delivered in almost flawless rhetoric...
SONA: Asan ang food?
by Tony Lopez - July 25, 2024 - 12:00am
To deliver his third and best State of the Nation Address, President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. walked for 65 seconds through a virtual gauntlet all by his lonesome self, only to emerge seemingly victorious into...
Phl’s four major problems
by Tony Lopez - July 23, 2024 - 12:00am
The country today has four major problems, all of them imponderable and herculean in immensity – inflation, poverty, poor quality basic education and red tape.
Business better under BBM
by Tony Lopez - July 18, 2024 - 12:00am
Notable in two years of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been the overall buoyancy of business and the robustness of the economy.
The shooting of Donald Trump; pesky Phl inflation problem
by Tony Lopez - July 16, 2024 - 12:00am
Donald J. Trump, bleeding profusely on his upper right ear, blood criss-crossing his reddened face, yet the former president looking defiant, his right fist pumped into the air as he hollers “Fight! ...
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