The timing of Ayala Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation’s expanded partnership is hard to ignore. Just as Mitsubishi is committing substantially more capital to Ayala, Mynt—the parent of GCash and an existing investment of the two groups—is preparing to enter the…
There are moments when public outrage makes the toughest solution sound like the right one. The livestreamed shooting at Ateneo de Zamboanga University was one of those moments. A horrific act of violence unfolded in real time on Facebook and,…
“Some areas, again, I think are just like totally, totally gone.” That was Sam Altman’s blunt prediction about the future of work as artificial intelligence (AI) advances. Speaking at a Federal Reserve conference in July 2025, the OpenAI chief executive…
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is not the visual translation of Homer that many expected, nor does it seek to present the resourceful, many-sided hero of Emily Wilson’s celebrated rendering. It is something rarer and more austere: a modern morality play…
The internet rarely waits for context. Last week, China’s state-run China Daily posted an AI-generated video featuring a monkey dressed in a barong Tagalog. In the animation, arms bearing the Japanese and American flags shove the monkey onto a rickety…
In fast-growing economies, governments often face a familiar temptation: regulate first, explain later. The Philippines nearly stumbled into that trap this week. What began as a drafted Department Administrative Order (DAO) from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) proposing…
“Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major-country relations?” When Chinese President Xi Jinping posed that question to U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing, it sounded less like a diplomatic flourish…
April’s inflation rate of 7.2% is not just an unpleasant surprise; it is a reminder of how quickly macroeconomic stability can unravel when external shocks meet domestic vulnerabilities. For households, it shows up immediately in higher food and fuel costs.…
The story of how a fugitive slipped through Europe is not really about one man. It is about a system that moved just slowly enough—and spoke just too soon—to lose him. When former Ako Bicol party-list representative Elizaldy “Zaldy” Co…
The controversy surrounding First Gen Corporation’s ₱62-billion hydropower deal with Prime Infrastructure Capital Inc. (Prime Infra) has brought an uncommon term into public view: the “poison pill.” In this case, the clause allows Prime Infra to buy out First Gen’s…
