Ben Kritz

1 week ago | manilatimes.net | Ben Kritz

First of two partsIN a tersely worded disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on May 1, Philippine InfraDev Holdings Inc. announced that the stalled Makati City Subway Project was officially dead, and that the company, which had been the project's developer, had initiated arbitration proceedings "to enable an impartial resolution of the JVA [joint venture agreement] with Makati City." Register to read this story and more for free.

2 weeks ago | manilatimes.net | Ben Kritz

TODAY is Labor Day here in the Philippines and many other countries, and while for the vast majority of people it is simply another excuse to have a long weekend, there are a few who will try to mark the occasion by celebrating "labor." This usually involves staging some kind of street demonstration and shouting about how the government ought to raise the minimum wage, among other things, that may not even be in context, such as "US out of the Philippines," or justice for some activist or...

2 weeks ago | manilatimes.net | Ben Kritz

A REPORT on research into emissions from ships transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) was published earlier this month by Inside Climate News, and it did not deliver good news.

2 weeks ago | manilatimes.net | Ben Kritz

NEWS emerged during the week that United States President Donald Trump and his unelected prime minister Elon Musk had again conspired to wreck an important US institution, this time abruptly shutting down the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). These two chuckleheads have done a lot of abysmally stupid things in the less than 100 days Trump has been in office, but this has to be one of the worst, because the negative consequences of it fall mostly on US businesses and the US government.

3 weeks ago | manilatimes.net | Ben Kritz

SHORTLY before the long Easter weekend, a secondhand complaint about the walkability, or rather the lack thereof, of Bonifacio Global City (BGC) apparently gained a considerable amount of attention on social media, as reported by Philstar on April 18. The story caught my attention because I spend a fair bit of time hanging around in BGC, and most of what was said about the place, at least as Philstar reported it, is absolutely true.