George Royeca
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 24, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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The invasion that will not come by sea (opens the original)
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Imagine a Tuesday morning. The grid fails in three regions at once and ATMs go dark. A hospital in Quezon City cannot pull up a single patient record, so surgeries stop. The payroll system of a national agency returns nothing but a ransom note in broken English. By noon the peso is falling and nobody can say who did it, because no ship crossed our waters and no plane entered our airspace. Not one shot fired. This is not fiction. It is the documented playbook of modern conflict, rehearsed already
Neither employee nor orphan (opens the original)
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At five in the morning a rider warms up his motorcycle in Metro Manila. At the same hour a virtual assistant in Batangas is closing the books for a dental clinic in New Jersey, a graphic artist in Metro Cebu is sending a logo to a client in Berlin and a mother in Cagayan de Oro is packing the last of 40 orders her online store sold overnight. None of them have an employer. All of them are working. Together they are millions strong, and they are the most important workforce our laws cannot see. W
The cheated public and the honest company’s burden (opens the original)
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We like to imagine that corporate cheating is a private quarrel between a company and its regulator. A rule is broken, a fine is computed, a press release is issued and everyone moves on. This picture is comforting and completely wrong. Every serious violation has two victims who are rarely in the room when the penalty is negotiated. The first is the honest competitor. The second is you. Start with the mathematics of honesty. Following the rules costs money. Insurance premiums, safety training,
Plunder in pinstripes: When public funds pay for private greed (opens the original)
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The law sees plunder in only one direction. Under Republic Act 7080, plunder is a crime committed by a public officer who amasses ill gotten wealth of at least P50 million through a combination or series of overt criminal acts. The statute was written with a particular villain in mind, the corrupt official raiding the treasury. It is a good law, but an incomplete one. It assumes that the only hands capable of looting the public purse are hands that hold public office. History, both global and lo
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