I recently watched a video of a Tesla in the United States navigating a parking lot by itself while its owner sat in the...

ONE frustrating characteristic of the AI boom seems to be that everyone must pay for it, regardless of any interest in using it. For some, it will be through rising utility bills as data centers strain the grid. For even more of us, it will be increasing costs of just about every electronic product you can think of: laptops, smartphones, televisions — perhaps even cars.

THE eponymous expression refers to a mental state of inactivity and listlessness that is hopefully temporary. The “doldrums” refer to a nautical term. As...

The focus of Japanese character formation is always group responsibility, in great contrast with the philosophy of individualism prevalent in Western societies.

President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. announced some good news last week — the discovery of a major natural gas field about five kilometers east of...

ON SATURDAY MORNING, Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti on a busy Minneapolis street. The Trump administration wasted no time in doing a bit of preemptive inoculation.

Public interest is a paramount consideration underlying Philippine immigration policy. In admitting foreigners and regulating the scope of their permissible activities, the government ensures...

I became part of MAP 20 years ago — and will shortly be officially a lifetime member in a few months.

POLITICS in Asia is getting funnier, but the punchlines are falling flat.

While waiting for the full year 2025 cash operations report (COR) of the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr), I checked the data from January-November...

By Abdurohman and Xianguo Huang FOR DECADES, the middle-income trap was viewed as a slow-burn structural dilemma. Economies grew rapidly by mobilizing labor and capital,...

AN ADMIRAL writes of a world leader who is familiar to us: “He is vanity itself, sacrificing everything to his own moods and childish amusements, and nobody checks him in doing so. I ask myself how people with blood rather than water in their veins can bear to be around him.”