An investigation on alleged irregularities in the construction of sports facilities for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games is an embarrassment that will besmirch the reputation of Filipino athletes. That is how Sen. Pia Cayetano framed the call by Sen. Risa Hontiveros for the Senate to conduct a probe into the construction of the multibillion-peso facilities at the New Clark City spearheaded by her brother, then Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano. “I am embarrassed that we choose to
Something momentous happened over the weekend that signals the continuing shift of the world’s economic fulcrum to Asia-Pacific away from North America, dominated by the United States. Fifteen economies comprising about a third of the world’s population and of the global economy signed a trade agreement that formalizes what is now the world’s largest trading bloc. Initiated by the 10 Asean economies that we are part of, the newly-minted Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP now brings in five of the six “dialogue partners” with which Asean has already had separate free trade deals: Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South
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