If physicians don’t appear as angry or noisy as other groups of people who love our country, it is not because we are indifferent....

THE PHILIPPINES is one of the most graft-riddled countries in the world, routinely scoring toward the bottom of global corruption indices, alongside the likes of Sierra Leone and Angola. But even by its own troubled standards, the past few months have exposed how deep the rot goes.

Dec. 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a global reminder that inclusion is not achieved by sentiment but by systems. For millions...

For decades, governments have relied on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) World Economic Outlook (WEO) as an anchor for assessing global conditions in both...

The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person...

Somewhere in Metro Manila, a young Filipino is trapped inside a scam den, forced to lie to strangers online. Somewhere in Taipei, an elderly Taiwanese man is losing his life savings to a criminal syndicate that operates across countries.

LET’S BE HONEST: The oil market has always been wrong about long-term prices. Unsurprisingly, it’s currently wrong in anticipating that a barrel of crude...

“Bummer,” I told myself as successive news stories on the widening graft mess further eroding our economic growth prospects and business sentiment, and pushing...

In August, the Senate revived the plastic bag tax discussion by introducing two new measures now pending in committee. Senate Bill No. 811 proposes...

NAGOYA, Japan — I am in Japan’s fourth largest city by population size. Our route was Manila-Narita-Nagoya and our domestic flight from Narita took...

MUCH ATTENTION is given to where the entrance to a mall or office is located. Usually, the main entrance is at a drop-off point...

Can the Philippines still be a major exporter of manufactured exports like the East Asian tigers? With all due respect to the contrary opinion, my answer is no.