Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute The world continues to struggle with how to contain the transmission and mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 416,000 people worldwide are reported to have died from COVID-19, and more than 7.3 million confirmed positive cases have been recorded so far. World Health Organization (WHO) officials… Read More

Paco A. Pangalangan, Executive Director, Stratbase ADR Institute Last week I saw a video circulating on Facebook of a bicycle shop owner giving a teary-eyed street vendor his dream bicycle after noticing that the man had been coming into the shop week after week just to ask about it. Last month, I read about a… Read More

THE WPS: A LONG STRUGGLE AHEAD June 9, 2020 Justice Antonio T. Carpio Good morning to everyone. Let me commend the ADR Institute for continuing to hold fora like this to remind us that we must continue to defend our sovereign rights in the WPS. Otherwise, in the near future our fishing boats will not… Read More

DEMANDING JUSTICE FROM CHINA By Ambassador Albert Del Rosario Chair, Stratbase ADR Institute 9 June 2020 As the world struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic, today reminds us that it has been exactly a year after agents of the Chinese State rammed into a small wooden fishing boat called the F/B Gem-Ver 1 in Reed Bank,… Read More

Despite the COVID-19 outbreak, China continues to pursue its maritime expansionism in the region. It has taken its regional security agenda further by establishing administrative districts in the South China Sea, escalating confrontations with the Philippines, Japan and Malaysia, blocking Vietnamese fishing rights, and even creating tension in its shared land border with India. We… Read More

Edwin Santiago, Fellow and Member of the Editorial Board, Stratbase ADR Institute We often hear Filipinos described as excellent planners. It is, therefore, such a big let-down for many when the government is caught without a plan. Our government officials would have us believe that they could not have planned for the COVID-19 because it… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President, Stratbase ADR Institute As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to capsize economies around the world, the Philippine government is banking on its infrastructure development plan to boost economic recovery in the second half. The Department of Finance has recommended the acceleration of the Duterte administration’s Build, Build, Build (BBB) program as part of… Read More