Potholes and portals
Southeast Asia has become a global hotspot for industrial-scale online scam syndicates — shady compound operations disguised behind…
Section
EDITORIAL
Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Robinhood nails it
Padilla put the House prosecutors on the spot with a seemingly simple question: Do any of them drive expensive vehicles bearing the coveted…
Height of hypocrisy
Cayetano and Padilla’s stunts successfully turned a forensic accounting audit into a debate about whether it is okay to buy sneakers for…
CJ’s gauntlet
The current trial has been narrowed to Article II, covering allegations of unexplained wealth, SALN deficiencies and unlawful business…
Trump’s visit: Reaffirming an alliance
For both leaders, the visit offers a chance to show that the partnership remains on track and that each side values the relationship.
Grand hypocrisy
The profligacy reminds many of the flood control scandal, where money meant for real projects went missing, making spending on decorations…
Great Wall of the Philippines
There is nothing shameful about acknowledging that millions of Filipinos still struggle to afford decent housing or earn a sustainable…
Kafkaesque
The Constitution forbids active participation in business management or operations, not merely holding a financial interest, especially if…
Futile BSP formula
When loans become costlier, households borrow less, and businesses slash investments.
Middle class faces extinction
When the economy slows, businesses stop hiring. They stop expanding, and some close. Middle-class families depend on those jobs and…
Call it what it is
Stagflation is the toxic mix of stagnant output, rising joblessness and rising prices.
Ship flounders
Growth has largely slowed since the start of the Marcos Jr. administration, with five consecutive quarters of slowdown since late 2025,…
Eyesores, the poor ain’t
A vendor who loses a day’s income does not become less poor because a visiting leader fails to see him.
Marcos redux
What’s pathetic is the attempt to massage the numbers. Malacañang announced that a historic 9.7-percent poverty rate was achieved ahead of…
Reward pork busters
The proposal carries a reward system in which a successful prosecution entitles the petitioner to get a portion of recovered funds.
Move over, old-school politics
While dynastic machinery remains a heavy blanket over the local landscape, the hunger for reform-minded, independent and service-driven…
Net the big fish
Somebody has to be held accountable for the SEA Games scandal. Yes, Suzara would be a suspect, but he was clearly taking orders from…
PBBM’s legacy unravels
October inflation spiked to 7.8 percent, among the highest in Southeast Asia.