A “new era of shipbuilding” may be dawning in the Philippines. Thus declared President Marcos, who cheered the entry into the Subic Freeport of South Korea’s HD Hyundai Korea Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering, a global leader in shipbuilding and heavy industries that expects to invest $550 million over the next 10 years and generate around 10,000 new jobs over the next three to five years. HD Hyundai, which will initially focus on offshore wind platforms, forged an
By upholding the acquittal of Dr. Henry Daz, an anesthesiologist, and by freeing him from paying damages, the Supreme Court (in Nuñez v. Daz, Jan. 29, 2024, per J Maria Filomena D. Singh, Third Division) has shown it is not an enemy of medical doctors though in an earlier case (Agbayani v. People, June 23, 2021, an unsigned extended resolution or UER, Third Division), it affirmed the conviction of the late Dr. Benigno Agbayani Jr. on a similar charge of “reckless imprudence.” Let me explain the difference. FIRST, LET US RECALL WHAT HAPPENED IN THE AGBAYANI CASE. Per my column on
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