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Columnist Olivar, 68

Manila Standard columnist Gary Olivar, former economic spokesman of the Arroyo administration, died of a heart attack Tuesday, June 29. He was 68. Mr. Olivar...

One-two-three

"What did Quezon know?"   Let me open with a commercial for my company CenSEI’s monthly webinar for June, on the topic of tourism in the...

Biden to the rescue

"Still the world’s best salesmen."   Congratulations first of all to our wunderkind friend Dr. Karl Kendrick Chua, who breezed through his Senate confirmation last week...

Neighbor, ally

"The key is not to become a pawn."   I’m happy to welcome the return to (online) print last March of the quarterly journal of the...

‘Deal me in!’

"It’s time to up the ante."   As President Duterte nears his final year in office, it’s heartening to note that the Philippines is finally getting...

PAASE

"Corporate largesse also makes common sense."   Last Friday I sat through most of a well-attended webinar on ivermectin sponsored by the Philippine-American Association of Science...

Unrefined

"Don’t leave your car at home just yet. "   Not everyone is happy over the recently passed Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) law,...

Courage

"Five hundred years of the Church"   Let me start with a salute to the late Horace Gillego, a fraternity brod of mine who became one...

The myth of imperialism

"The CPP/NPA/NDF: A national disgrace"   The other week, I wrote about how the DILG-led drive to relax the Constitutional restrictions on foreign direct investment is...

The ‘middle kingdom’ reaches out

"Tapping a trillion-dollar market"   Last Sunday, some half a million doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinovac were airlifted into Manila—the very first vaccine to actually...

Cleaning up after Cory

"Can we use 1.6 million new jobs?"   Last week I called out PNB for its six-month delay in cleaning up my credit card account after...

Victims and heroes

"Second thoughts about the Party line"   People sometimes ask me to talk about my experiences during the unruly years of the late sixties and early...
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