Mike About Town by Mike T. Toledo
Play louder than ever
That was the battle cry of the consortium in its formal presentation of the Philippines’s bid to host the 2023...
The ASEAN Agriculture Summit 2017
TWO weeks ago, the Philippines, as part of its hosting of the 50th ASEAN Anniversary, held the ASEAN Agriculture Summit...
The MOPC Forum with Secretary Dominguez
The Manila Overseas Press Club or MOPC, the oldest press association in the Philippines, recently held a Finance Forum at...
Mine way
One morning, over a cup of piping hot cocoa, a daily habit I inherited from my grandmother (who lived till...
The ASEAN and the ALA
The first week-and-a-half of August 2017 witnessed a flurry of ASEAN activities here in Manila. Considerably so, since the Philippines...
For the fallen
“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
The ATOM Press Launch
Baby Boomers would remember ATOM in Philippine history as the August Twenty-One Movement, but this piece is not about that,...
As if we never say goodbye
You might have noticed of late that my columns have taken a rather foreign affairs flavor. I’ve written about our...
The highest honor
I missed paying tribute to fathers last week, but it is never too late nor too seldom to honor your...
Amigos para siempre
Every Filipino knows that Philippine Independence Day is celebrated every twelfth of June to commemorate the Declaration of Independence from...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.