The growing youth epidemic of alcohol, tobacco, and vape use: A call for higher...
By AJ Montesa
On March 5, leading doctors and public health advocates gathered at the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) headquarters in Quezon City to sound the alarm...
What Duterte’s arrest means to the world
By Jam Magdaleno
RODRIGO DUTERTE built his presidency on a promise: to wage a war on drugs so ruthless that the fish in Manila Bay would “grow...
The importance of colorectal cancer screening
By Teodoro B. Padilla
In the Philippines, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. In 2022, there were 20,736...
Neutralizing sleeper agents and other espionage activities, foreign and domestic
By Rocio Salle Gatdula
THE recent arrests of several Chinese nationals and two Filipinos on espionage charges show growing security threats to the Philippines and the need for...
Growing Trump-Putin detente could spell trouble for the Arctic
By Duncan Depledge and Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
During a wide-ranging 90-minute speech to the US congress of March 4, Donald Trump revisited his determination to “get” Greenland “one way or the...
The dollar’s rampage is on hiatus. Is Asia ready?
By Daniel Moss
THE EPIC RALLY that drove the dollar to its best performance in almost a decade is taking a breather. For policymakers in Asia, who...
From Zero to Billions: Real estate lessons from RE/MAX Regent’s Eddie Santos
By RJ Ledesma
Real estate, famously, moves in boom-and-bust cycles. Just last month, reports of an oversupply in Metro Manila condominiums spread concern about the real estate...
Security vs Privacy
By Marvin Tort
In 2022, when the SIM Registration law was passed, I expressed concern about the creation of a national SIM registration database. This database consolidates...
The law finally caught up with Duterte and his death squads
By Karishma Vaswani
RODRIGO DUTERTE once famously said he “offered no apologies” for the deaths of thousands of Filipinos, who were killed as part of the former...
Accounting for reputation
By Tony Samson
BEYOND the lifestyle pages of media, corporate chiefs have a distinct reputation. Does this association with a certain lifestyle, personality (he’s very aloof), and...
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater: Successful USAID-backed projects
By Bernardo M. Villegas
(Part 2)
It is well known that a major obstacle to faster growth and, more importantly, a more equitable distribution of income wealth in the...
Choose leaders who are strong on security
By Victor Andres C. Manhit
Candidates should no longer underestimate the Filipino voter. They must go beyond the usual motherhood statements and focus on issues that strike deep at...