‘Technopreneurship,’ social initiatives for inclusive growth

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/26/2014

At the sidelines of the opening of the World Economic Forum on East Asia last Thursday, ANC’s Karen Davila asked young businessman Winston Damarillo about the drivers of the Philippine economic success. Damarillo, a WEF Young Global…

World Economic Forum in Manila, fun in Cebu

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/22/2014

The World Economic Forum (WEF) opened in Manila yesterday, a first since the organization’s inception in the 1970s. The WEF was founded in the 1970s by Swiss engineer and economist Klaus Martin Schwab who envisioned the non-profit…

Redefining the future through coops

05/19/2014

Manila—The 44th Annual General Meeting and National Convention of Victo National Cooperative Federation and Training Center, also known as Victo National, drew hundreds of delegates to this old capital city to take part in business meetings, interaction,…

Who and what did in Margie Juico?

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 05/12/2014

The resignation of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) chairperson Margarita “Margie” Juico last week continues to be a trending topic among political observers. Reports have it that she was forced to quit because she could no longer…

A memory for a relic

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/28/2014

Unique, unprecedented even in Church’s history are words that mainstream media kept repeating to describe the double canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XIII in ceremonies graced by two living pontiffs, 150 cardinals, 1,000…

Motive

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/21/2014

When lawyer Noel Archival and his two aides were gunned down in barangay Coro, Dalaguete in Feb. 18, the question of who masterminded the killing was on everyone’s mind. The gruesome murder was perpetrated in broad daylight…

The anti-RH won the day

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/14/2014

The Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling that the Reproductive Health (RH) law “is not unconstitutional” has sparked a torrent of opinions, mainly on the High Court’s use of a double negative in its declaration. As if anticipating the…

Quo vadis, electric co-ops?

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/07/2014

Part 2 In a previous column, I wrote about the 9th General Assembly Meeting of the Philippine Federation of Electric Cooperatives (Philfeco) held in a swanky resort hotel in Mactan, Cebu last April 1. It was my…

Quo vadis, electric co-ops?

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 04/03/2014

Cebu was still ecstatic over the victory of local beauty Kris Tiffany Janson in the Bb. Pilipinas beauty pageant (she bagged the title, Miss Philippines-Intercontinental 2014) when delegates of the Philippine Federation of Electric Cooperatives (Philfeco) descended…

The papal factor

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/31/2014

With the likelihood that Pope Francis will drop by the Philippines come August to visit victims of Supertyphoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan), the possibility of another visit in 2016 for the International Eucharistic Congress in Cebu City…

A different kind of love

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/27/2014

The Sunday invitation from Joyce Yang, head of the University of San Carlos’ Department of Business Administration for a Monday Lenten recollection with Fr. Jose “Joe” Quilongquilong, SJ came on short notice but I had no second…

High stakes in the airport project

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 03/24/2014

When I accepted an invitation, coursed through this paper’s publisher, from Filinvest Development Corp. for a media briefing, I thought Filinvest would issue updates about its bid to disqualify GMR-Megawide in the Mactan-Cebu International Airport project. There…

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