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Sunday, September 13, 2026

Tapping the global chocolates market

IT IS AN old story that has been told repeatedly: Switzerland does not grow cacao, yet it is the leading manufacturer and exporter of...

Purging the party-list, etc.

AND WE’RE back to regular programming after Sunday’s gathering of social climbers, wannabe activists, pseudo-communists, and paid hooligans—an event that generated media mileage for...

Disaster resilience is a moral Imperative — not just a metric

THE PHILIPPINES has once again been named the most disaster-prone country in the world. For the third consecutive year, we topped the World Risk...

Poverty alleviation vs poverty reduction

SINCE I could not find any documents that officially differentiate poverty alleviation from poverty reduction, please allow me to offer my own differentiation as...

Our true wealth

WE SHOULD be clear about what our true wealth is. It definitely is not anything that comes from the world—money, fame, power, etc. Our...

We should channel God’s Trinitarian life in our lives

WITH THE celebration of the Solemnity of the Blessed Trinity, what we are reminded of is the truth of our faith that we too...

China’s proxy war

IN PREVIOUS articles, I’ve written that Russia has already won the war and that those parts of Eastern Ukraine it has occupied are effectively...

Do legislators make laws?

PEOPLE obey laws. People break laws. Some respect them; others despise them. But what is really happening in our country today? This time around, the...

The radicality of Christian love

IF WE truly identify ourselves with Christ, as we should, then we have to realize that we have to love God and everybody else...

Dapat aktibo ang kawsa kontra korapsyon

HULATON pa bala naton nga magdangat sa bilyunes tubtob trilyunes ka pesos ang mangin halit sang korapsyon antes kita magsinggitan kag manindugan? Ang hublag-protesta sadtong...