Same roads, shared rules, shared accountability

By Marvin Tort
The situation on our roads has moved from confusion to outright chaos. At the center of the issue now are light electric vehicles (LEVs),...

Internet of beings: The dream of digitizing human bodies for healthcare (and the nightmare)

By Francesco Grillo
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured...

Are you getting bored?

By Tony Samson
THE need to stand out in a crowd or have thousands of followers for social media posts may be over. Keeping a low profile in a very connected world has become an option. Do you really want to be noticed, even to the point of being the target of controversy? Or do you just want to be ignored?

Bright spot in a gloomy 3rd quarter

By Bernardo M. Villegas
The 4% growth of GDP in the third quarter of the current year has dampened the mood of investors. This is way below the...

South Korea: A valuable partner to the Philippines and to ASEAN

By Victor Andres C. Manhit
In October last year, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Dialogue Relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and...

New megacities lie in the path of devastating floods

HUMANITY’s future lies in some of the most vulnerable spots on the planet.

Supreme Court designates 21 Regional Trial Courts as Anti-Graft Courts

By Louise Michiko B. Lokin
On Nov. 15, the Supreme Court (SC) announced that it was designating an initial batch of 21 Regional Trial Courts (RTCs) as special courts...

The SM Journey: Why values and ESG+R matter

By Hans T. Sy
SM was once condemned for cutting down trees in Baguio City. Today, I want to tell you why that was the right decision, and what it taught me about leadership.

The Executive Secretary and PhilHealth’s woes

By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr.
President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. appointed House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto the Secretary of Finance in January 2024, replacing Benjamin Diokno. Mr. Recto was...

Japan’s JERA Power

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
Last week I was one of several media persons who participated in the JERA Familiarization Tour in Japan. JERA is the largest power generation...

Moving from conspicuous consumption to conscious living this Christmas

By Liza Mae L. Fumar
Ask a Filipino millennial or Gen Z-er what “Black Friday” is, and they will probably say that it is practically synonymous with shopping. Black...

Outrage in the city

By Marian Pastor Roces
The symbolic American “street” — the National Mall in Washington, DC, flanked by the Smithsonian Institution museums on the longitudinal sides and on opposite...