
Palestinian leader’s son vows: ‘Gaza first’
Ramallah (AFP) — The son of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said Fatah would prioritize Gaza and return it “to the fold of Palestinian…
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Ramallah (AFP) — The son of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said Fatah would prioritize Gaza and return it “to the fold of Palestinian…
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Foreign investors watching from Singapore, Tokyo, and Brussels do not parse the internal logic of Philippine factional politics. They see institutional…
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The danger is that the country becomes trapped in a cycle where politics consumes the national attention while governance and economic confidence suffer.
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The Philippines you love has become harder and harder to embrace because it is run by people who do not love it as much as you do.
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Institutional foundations required for the country to govern itself are being swiftly eroded by the intense political rivalry between two powerful partisan…
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The cocktail circuit frequented by Nosy Tarsee is fizzing with a whisper campaign so coordinated it practically comes with talking points: that the country’s…
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The survival of democratic institutions as respected pillars of governance depends on whether they can recover the qualities that once defined them.
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If you look at the Senate these days, what you see is not exactly an institution radiating gravitas. You see hyper-partisanship.
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As the old adage goes, the best laid plans will fail if executed by morons. And fail the plans did, in spectacular fashion.
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Men carrying rifles flooded stairwells as senators disappeared behind locked doors and whispered instructions.
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Politics, I realized, is not only about winning positions. It is about understanding people’s burdens and responding with compassion and action.
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The head of Human Resources must evolve into a true enterprise leader, thinking beyond payroll, labor compliance and hiring targets.
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Before Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano can worry about being charged with obstruction of justice, he may first have to survive growing rumblings of a…
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'The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no specific treatment.'
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While electricity consumption grew by about 140 percent from 2003 to 2024, transmission lines increased by only 11 percent.
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A breakdown in governance was how a veteran former senator bluntly described the chaos that erupted last Wednesday over the attempted arrest of Senator Ronald…
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The only way to break the cycle is to realize that the hero we’ve been waiting for is us.
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