Congress would like you to think of data as a commodity, as personal property. By passing its Data Rollover Bill (House Bill No. 87)...

THE WORLD moves on different wavelengths. Some are high-frequency shocks — wars, emerging technologies, market panics — that spike quickly and dominate our attention. Others are low-frequency forces that move slowly but relentlessly: demographics, globalization, water and food scarcity.

DOES THE CULTURE of politics with its exercise of power, arm-twisting, use of cash incentives, and behind-the-scenes negotiations also infect corporate governance? How does...

Prophets of doom in the last century frantically warned the whole world about the so-called population bomb or the threat of overpopulation.

In a December 2025 meeting of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC), President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., himself a product of a rich tradition of...

AFTER NEARLY a decade working in the Philippines, I have seen two very different futures unfolding side by side. I have walked through fast-growing business districts and high-rise offices in Metro Manila, and I have traveled to places like the Bangsamoro, where too many children are still pushed into labor instead of classrooms.

ACROSS ASIA, the reaction to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s election triumph has been near unanimous: A stronger Japan is good for the region. Everyone, that is, except China.

The Science and Technology Advisory Council (STAC) Silicon Valley-San Francisco Chapter was formally organized months after the third run of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Dialogue on Science and Technology Projects. It was held at the University of San Francisco (USF) in April 1990 after similar events in the East Coast.

AS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in everyday business tools, boards of directors face a subtle but critical governance challenge. AI is no longer confined to bespoke systems or advanced analytics platforms.

Last Friday, Feb. 6, the 4th Ruperto P. Alonzo UP School of Economics – Program in Development Economics annual memorial lecture was held at...

Under the Philippines’ ASEAN Chairship, ASEAN leaders are meeting again to finalize a code of conduct (CoC) for the South China Sea (SCS). In...

SINGAPORE has been put on notice. The city-state has long wrestled with how to lift the birthrate. But despite an array of incentives, couples aren’t showing much interest in larger families, or having any at all.