The proposal to adopt a Philippine Budgeting Code is both timely — and long overdue. For decades, the country’s budgeting framework has been held together...

We have four topics to tackle here so we go straight to the numbers and facts, starting with energy inflation. While our overall inflation last...

By Pedro DiNezio  TALK of a “super El Niño” developing in 2026 is gaining momentum, with concerns rising that this climate pattern could bring extreme...

(Part Two) Following on from Part One*, it bears adding that Ukrainian drone designers deployed, constantly recalibrated and redirected design, retested, and redeployed during actual...

On May 6, in a Senate Health Committee hearing on bills regulating e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs), Baguio Mayor Benjie Magalong, through a...

The Philippines ranks among the five most traffic-congested countries in Asia, with Metro Manila and Davao City consistently listed among the world’s most congested...

WE LIVE in a time where advertisements hardly look like advertisements at all.

In The Art of Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli presented a moral dilemma that now feels strikingly relevant to the crisis confronting the Senate of...

THERE IS GROWING recognition that forest carbon projects can play a meaningful role in climate mitigation and environmental protection in the Philippines.

WITH THE BRUTAL effects of wars and violence on the lives of human beings and the incidences of poverty, hunger, and other forms of human suffering occurring in the world and in our country today, the view expressed in the past by at least one philosopher — that human existence does not make sense — occurs to me. It is the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, who is best known for this philosophy which has been couched in a word: “nihilism.”

AS THE WORLD confronts the challenges of population aging and healthcare workforce shortages, digital transformation in healthcare is no longer optional but essential.

There was a time not so long ago when anyone who suggested that a big population was a boon to leverage, rather than a burden to cut down to size, was met with raised eyebrows, rolling eyes, and a smirk, and was deemed as either living in the clouds or just plain bonkers.