Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute There was so much hype about the Philippines’ pivot to China, but there are no significant results until now. After President Duterte’s visit to China last month, his fifth, we can’t help but ask whether the foreign policy shift has indeed translated to tangible benefits for Filipinos.… Read More

Orlando Oxales, Deputy Managing Director of the Stratbase Group and ICT Fellow of the Stratbase ADR Institute Addressing the rollout delays of the nationwide free public Wi-Fi hotspots is on top of the priorities of recently confirmed Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Gregorio B. Honasan. “We will first connect everybody to each… Read More

Carmelo Bayarcal, Convenor, Philippine Business for Environmental Stewardship (PBEST) Developing the mining potential of our country necessitates a far more complex and progressive way of capitalizing opportunities and benefits. Recently, the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) launched the Mining Philippines 2019 International Conference with the theme, “Riding the Wave: Capitalizing on Opportunities,” featuring… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program, Stratbase ADR Institute A few days before his fifth official visit to Beijing, President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he would raise the 12 July 2016 United Nations Conference Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) awards to President Xi Jinping. He… Read More

Dr. Renato de Castro, Trustee and Convenor of the National Security and East Asian Affairs Program of the Stratbase ADR Institute A few weeks after his fifth visit to China, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte claimed that Chinese President Xi Jingping offered him a controlling stake in a proposed joint energy exploration in the West Philippine… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute Breakaway development for the Philippines has been elusive. While signs of progress continue to manifest in our society, nationwide development has been hampered by an unstable outlook on how we can harness and manage our natural resources. But we can, in fact, utilize the richness of our… Read More

Dindo Manhit, President of the Stratbase ADR Institute A wide-ranging value chain analysis on the Philippine economy leads us to try new strategies, which can eventually jumpstart “real” development. The fact remains that our country is the fifth most mineralized country in the world; the issue of effective resource management in order to unleash the… Read More