Val A. Villanueva

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Val A. Villanueva

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China fortifies foothold on PHL’s telecoms

A Filipino-American reader residing in Daly City in California, USA, sent me a long message unleashing a mouthful against the Philippine government’s footsie-play with China, despite the latter’s unapologetic grabbing of the country’s islands in the West Philippine Sea. Twenty-two-year-old James Howard, who spent...

‘Railroad robbery’

Investigating what went terribly wrong in the procurement process of Light Rail Transit-2 (LRT-2) was one of the last official actions of the late Dante Jimenez, chairman of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC), before he succumbed to aortic aneurism on January 29 this...

The anatomy of fake news

There was this sense of elation that I felt on Monday when, at exactly 9:40 a.m., the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in the country was officially injected by nurse Chareluck Santos on the arm of Dr. Gerardo Legaspi, director of the...

Bulacan airport project deserves full government support

"A controversial project...” I can only shake my head when some media entities describe San Miguel Corp’s  P1.5-trillion Bulacan Airport Project as controversial, without a clear and unequivocal explanation as to what makes it so. My gutfeel tells me that some business groups with...

Bully behavior

IN business, competition is always a good thing. The more competitors there are, the more each business organization is encouraged to step up and make its product or service better for customers. Of course, that is, if we lived in an ideal world. Realistically,...