From my reading of the fourth quarter statistics of Social Weather Stations (SWS), the ending of 2025 wasn’t too bad; but it ...

Something extraordinary is happening in the Visayas. While Manila’s art scene grapples with what critics call a “quarter-life crisis,” provincial cities across Bohol, Cebu, and Iloilo are ...

In our country, to seek psychological help is to face a long-hour queue at the National Center for Mental Health. Patients have to sacrifice a whole day standing in long lines to see a ...

Southeast Asia is often described as facing tough trade-offs on clean energy. Demand is rising, coal plants are young, and governments are under pressure to keep electricity affordable. On paper, ...

When the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) released its Year One report for 2023, “Miseducation: The Failed System of Education,” we held a mirror up to the ...

Charity and goodwill are the sentiments most often expected to be practiced during the holiday season, so it can seem ...

For a while there, the figures rekindled hopes among Filipinos that finally, their long-held dream of having their own home was on the cusp of being a reality. At the launch of the Pambansang ...

The death of former Department of Public Works and Highways Undersecretary Maria Catalina “Cathy” Cabral in Benguet has drawn a deep and uneasy pause from many in government, civil society, and ...

Filipinos greet the New Year in many ways: some make noise, others light firecrackers, and some hear Mass followed by a midnight meal with family and friends. Children are encouraged to jump to grow ...

The Philippines has once again proven its dominance in the global pageant arena, continuing its strong back-to-back placements in the Miss Cosmo pageant and offering a ray of hope to this new pageant ...

The first day of the year is always tinged with excitement and joy. At the stroke of midnight last Dec. 31, we welcomed 2026 ...

How is it that, year after year, so many journalists meet such tragic fates? We need to be frank about something Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn addressed in a speech at Harvard in 1979: the decline in ...