Ping Galang January 31, 2012 10:38am
The government has just reported seemingly encouraging economic growth rates for the 2011 fourth quarter. Let’s examine whether the momentum can last.
Ping Galang January 23, 2012 9:34pm
Over 20 years after its launch, a scheme to empower local officials with key fiscal and social functions limps on.
Ping Galang January 15, 2012 3:28pm
An article by former president Gloria Arroyo claims economic gains during her term but it does not mention her administration's sorry record in poverty alleviation
Ping Galang May 22, 2011 12:00am
After his resignation following sexual-attack charges filed in court against him, Dominique Strauss-Kahn will continue to get IMF payments 'for the duration of his life'.
Ping Galang May 7, 2011 10:24pm
A new report released by the Asian Development Bank dissects Asia’s re-emergence from recent crises and its march toward the so-called 'Asian Century'. Where does the Philippines fit in this historic surge?
Ping Galang May 3, 2011 3:09pm
There’s been a number of foreign investment projects in Southeast Asian countries in recent weeks. None went to the Philippines, which has been busy sprucing up its credit ratings—so it could borrow some more?
Ping Galang April 25, 2011 7:06pm
A new way of rice farming, based on a system that includes the use of less water and no chemicals, could provide opportunities for higher farm yields and profits. Yet it seems to be getting little attention in the country where hunger continues to be a major problem.
Ping Galang March 5, 2011 8:11pm
The late Pres. Marcos’s son Bongbong says his father could have transformed the Philippines into another Singapore if not for the 1986 uprising. Let’s examine this claim more rigorously.
Ping Galang March 1, 2011 7:50pm
Despite a surge in business confidence, the local stock market has been experiencing net selling of holdings by foreign portfolio investors, which has contributed to a 10 percent decline in share prices in the first two months.
Ping Galang February 21, 2011 5:23pm
Even before the EDSA people power revolt of February 1986, the crippling effects of a stagnating economy were already stoking popular discontent and threatening the Marcos regime.
