From Personal Blog To Lifestyle Voice: The Rise Of When In Manila

A return home sparked an idea that would eventually grow into one of the country’s most recognizable lifestyle platforms. Vince Golangco reflects on the early days of When In Manila. #PAGEONESpotlight_VinceGolangco #PAGEONESpotlight_WhenInManila

Women In Fintech: How Tala’s Shivani Siroya Is Changing The Future Of Credit To Advance Financial Inclusion

Women leaders continue to reshape industries by bringing new ideas and perspectives that challenge long-standing systems. Their innovations are creating solutions that impact communities worldwide.

Nestlé Philippines Honored With Special Citation, Partners Leadership Award For Advancing EPR Systems

Sustainability initiatives are encouraging both businesses and communities to participate in improving waste recovery systems.

Vivant Water Acquires Majority Stake In Puerto Princesa Wastewater Facility

Vivant Water strengthens its role in wastewater management with a larger stake in Puerto Princesa’s treatment facility, supporting long-term environmental solutions and sustainable urban development.
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Power Play

A Trilogy On Power, Youth, And The Philippine State

In a Congress long dulled by obedience, the rise of “Congressmeow” Kiko Barzaga reveals both the fragility and faint hope of Philippine politics, showing that even within a broken machine, dissent can still make it purr with possibility.

The Politics Of Nothing

The ICC’s ruling exposed a politics of noise where loyalty trumps law and governance fades into performance.

The ICC Didn’t Just Reject. It Exposed

The ICC’s rejection of Rodrigo Duterte’s release revealed not only his personal reckoning, it also exposed the enduring cycle of power, privilege, and impunity that continues to dominate Philippine governance.

The Court That Would Not Flinch

The ICC’s rejection of Duterte’s plea was a moral awakening, reminding the nation that justice is earned through accountability, not emotion or influence.

Government Without Governing

A nation with a full government but no governing, the Philippines now drifts in the emptiness between power and accountability, its institutions intact in form yet hollow in function as corruption thrives and conscience resigns.

The Capture Of Accountability: Remulla As Ombudsman

The appointment of Justice Secretary Boying Remulla as Ombudsman signals not reform but retreat, turning what should be the nation’s final guardian of accountability into a protective wall for those in power and reducing the fight against corruption to mere political theater.

The Untouchables Of Congress

Magalong and Lacson’s resignations reveal a government where corruption thrives, allies stay untouchable, and Marcos Jr.’s promise of reform sinks under the weight of impunity.

Snap Elections, Snap Opportunism

Amid the flood-control scandal that has shaken Congress, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano’s call for snap elections exposes not reform but reinvention, a political performance meant to distance, distract, and disguise ambition as moral reckoning.

Family Or Legacy: BBM’s Ultimate Test

In the flood-control scandal that now engulfs his presidency, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. faces a defining choice between family loyalty and national legacy, one that could either redeem his name or drown it in history’s recurring corruption.

The Crumbling State

A government can survive floods of water, but when floods of corruption erode trust and hollow out institutions, it is the people who drown first.