One cloudy morning last year, my partner and I met the residents of the Aeta neighborhood who welcomed us to their sacred ...

My last column, on Self-Rated Poverty as surveyed by Social Weather Stations (SWS), was serendipitously followed by two ...

The Philippine economy badly needs a shot in the arm. Economic growth has fallen in the last four quarters. Prices of food and essential commodities remain high. And corruption has left the state of ...

Liability-wise, an uncertain future awaits Gina Acosta, the former special disbursing officer (SDO) of the Office of Vice ...

Within the first weeks of classes, the Philippines witnessed a series of violent incidents involving young learners. On June 16, 2026, a 14-year-old Grade 8 student armed with a kitchen knife ...

The Department of Education (DepEd) originally scheduled a nationwide simultaneous school safety drill but postponed it to ...

My last article this year in this column talked about turning crises into opportunities. Let’s further pursue that perspective as we face not one crisis, but three at once. Early this month, the ...

The sun may be shining, but storm clouds loom on the horizon, necessitating that we prepare thoroughly for what lies ahead by ...

When United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that the US was imposing sanctions against the president and a senior lawyer of the International Criminal Court (ICC), he had ...

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The recent assertions by some Chinese scholars that Batanes is part of Taiwan and, therefore, belongs to China should not be dismissed as merely an eccentric academic theory. Nor should they be ...

In another demonstration that the most powerful country on Earth has become an archenemy of international law, the United ...