First of a Series on the Salim Empire in the Philippines   Through several corporate layers, the 65-year-old Indonesian Anthoni Salim who owns Indonesia’s biggest conglomerate controls Manila Electric Co.…

Every year around this time in February, we commemorate the 1986 People Power revolution, which had become a morality play of a Martyr’s Widow leading the people to overthrow the…

I’m surprised that nobody, except our columnist Emeterio Perez (in his column last Monday), thought of the implications of the amount of money accuser Ruby Chan Tuason said was her…

The ABS-CBN media behemoth would be doing real public service if it broadcast again, or release a transcript, of broadcaster Ted Failon’s excellent—but depressing—special report on Tacloban that was aired…

Even the once above-the-fray central monetary authority we call the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, it seems, has joined the panicky efforts of President Aquino’s propagandists to reverse his image as…

BUSINESS news headlines yesterday: Philippine Star: “Net FDI surges 55% in Nov.”; “Philippine Daily Inquirer: “Foreign investments soared by 55% in Nov.” One reporter even gushed as if he were…

NOT HERE BUT IN SINGAPORE Yes, you read that right. Meralco officials keep whining that its high electricity bills are due to the fact that Luzon doesn’t have generators and…

I can’t believe how ignorant or loony, or both, the recent statements President Aquino and his spokesman Herminio Coloma have been. Ignorant: Aquino likened China’s claims over the Spratly Islands…

President Aquino’s administration is inutile in stopping the surge in Meralco electricity costs. Consumers have been spared from paying their atrocious bills only because the Supreme Court issued a 60-day…

The clear and imminent danger to the Republic emerging from the “Annex on Normalization” President Aquino’s negotiators agreed to with the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is in its…