Edgardo Angara
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Generosity in the age of anxiety and greed
For Christians around the world, Christmas is a joyous occasion to celebrate the blessed nativity of Jesus Christ. Some say that gift-giving became integral to the holiday to commemorate the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh the Three Wise Men offered the Baby Jesus sleeping in the manger. Yet the greatest generosity to celebrate and emulate—and not just during the Christmas holiday—was that… → Read More
The stunting of the Filipino child
Part Two SAVE The Children Philippines recently launched its third Media Awards to recognize journalists, photographers and video producers who have provided outstanding coverage on child malnutrition in the Philippines today, in particular of children under 5 years old. Alex Badayos’s “Food For Tot” was awarded the Most Outstanding Photograph, which is a black-and-white depiction of a toddler… → Read More
An overheating planet
The world’s carbon emissions could increase by 2 percent this year, according to a new three-part report from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) released at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (or COP 23) in Bonn, Germany. This means atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could go up to as high as 405.5 ppm (parts per million)—or some 5.5 points higher than the 400-ppm threshold… → Read More
Nuclear bomb: Mutually assured destruction
By Wednesday United States President Donald J. Trump would be on the fourth day of his long 10-day trip to Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines—the longest any sitting US president has made to the region in a quarter century. At the top of his agenda is the peril of a nuclear attack by North Korea against the US or any of its allies. Fear has increased because of mutual exchanges of… → Read More
The Asean lawyers
PRESIDENT Duterte hosted the Asean Law Association (ALA) commemorative session at Malacañan Palace last Wednesday, October 25. The President exhorted the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean) community of lawyers to continue exchanging best practices among its members, and expressed the hope that ALA would help address the regional scourge of poverty, transnational crimes and terrorism.… → Read More
Privacy and sovereignty in the age of anxiety
The world is getting smaller and increasingly interconnected on account of technology. Profound changes are taking place on how people and even states relate with each other. Two vital areas of change are privacy (related to how individuals interact) and sovereignty (related to how states interact). First, privacy. In 2010 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg remarked at a Silicon Valley awards night… → Read More
Personalized learning
IN December 2015 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife Priscilla announced they would found their own philanthropic project called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), by donating 99 percent of their earnings from Facebook shares (roughly $45 billion at the time). The couple outlined in a published letter to their newborn daughter Max that one of CZI’s focus areas would be… → Read More
‘Build, Build, Build’ program has faulty underlying assumptions
The Duterte administration is ushering in a “golden age of infrastructure” with its “Build, Build, Build” (BBB) program. The avowed goal is to fast-track infrastructure spending of P8.4 trillion. This will raise the ratio of infrastructure spending to GDP from 5.4 percent in 2017 to 7.4 percent in 2022. This is nearly on a par with international standards. The proposed 2018 budget allocates… → Read More
Extreme weather
Extreme weather has been causing death and destruction in many parts of the world. In August Hurricane Harvey barreled through the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in the United States, where it devastated a huge swath of Texas and Louisiana. In six days, Hurricane Harvey dropped a record-breaking 27 trillion liters (51 inches) of rain, leaving up to 30,000 people in need… → Read More
The Balangiga Bells
President Duterte during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) asked the US to return to the Philippines the three “Balangiga Bells” taken by American soldiers in 1901 as war booty from the parish church of Balangiga in Eastern Samar. During the Philippine-American war, Filipino rebels ambushed on September 28, 1901, Company C of the 9th US Infantry Regiment, where 48 out of 78 US soldiers were… → Read More
High cost of Chinese ODA?
PUBLIC Works Secretary Mark A. Villar recently announced that the government will soon be breaking ground on a new bridge over the Pasig River, connecting Ortigas and Fort Bonifacio. This will be the first of 12 new Pasig River roadways envisioned to help decongest and ease traffic across Metro Manila. The construction of two of these bridges will be financed through a P3.6-billion (RMB… → Read More
Financing elderly health care
In December 2015 the World Bank reported that the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region—home to some 211 million elderly or one-third of the world’s population aged 65 years and above—is aging faster … → Read More