The Inter-Pacific Bar Association or IPBA was established in April 1991 in Tokyo as an international organization of business and commercial lawyers who practiced, or...

About this time last year, I wrote about the meeting of the Board of Directors of the US-Philippines Society that was held here in the...

FOR the past days or so, we witnessed a plethora of news about the one concern that is probably foremost in the minds of the...

“Your one hour can change a life.” One hour’s worth of salary, that is. Think about it: There are 8,765 hours in a year, and...

I borrow the erstwhile motto of the British SAS or Special Air Service as a title to this piece. Unlike, however, in a previous column...

Financial executives play a huge role in how an enterprise or corporation is governed. This was  what the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX)...

“’Tis the season to be jolly,” Christmas time is, and it goes without saying that the Yuletide season is a great time for merrymaking. The...

December 19 will go down in history as a “watershed moment” for the mining industry, as this was the day that gave witness to the...

“From the Halls of Montezuma To the Shores of Tripoli; We fight our country’s battles In the air, on land and sea…” Many of those...

I WAS invited to a business breakfast on commercial connections between the Philippines and New Zealand by His Excellency David Strachan, the Ambassador of New...