For ordinary Filipinos who take public transportation, drive to work, haul goods, or run a business, the arithmetic has changed. And when the arithmetic...

GOLD is trading near $5,000 an ounce. And yet, in the middle of the US and Israeli war on Iran and as foreign central banks sell Treasuries to defend their currencies and bond yields rise instead of fall, the precious metal has barely budged even as the world’s monetary authorities — the very institutions built to make gold obsolete — buy it at the fastest pace in a generation.

NOT ALL communications are expressed in words. There are signals using body language, facial expressions, and even the absence of any response after a...

As regards the sectors of the economy that attracted foreign direct investments (FDIs) during the three most recent administrations (Aquino, Duterte, and Marcos Jr.), the Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino administration brought in the greatest number of enterprises in the service industry, with manufacturing recovering slowly by the end of the period.

Even before the raging crisis in the Middle East, energy security has long been a strategic priority for the Philippines. The challenge has always...

UNDP’S RECENT REPORT, “The Next Great Divergence,” underscores a defining challenge for countries across Asia and the Pacific: they are entering the AI era with uneven foundations and this may create a divide among them.

FOR THE EMERGING megacities of Asia, the oil crisis spreading from the Strait of Hormuz is like the acute phase of a chronic condition.

Cybersecurity issues, the negative effects of AI, the Middle East war, and the closures of the Strait of Hormuz are driving organizations to perform...

FOR AT LEAST a decade, developing countries across Asia and Africa have worried about growing dependent on China. They’re concerned about debt traps, coercive policies, and hidden costs that might push their economies toward crisis.

Last week, Vietnam released their GDP growth for the first quarter (Q1) of this year, the first country in the world to do so...

As I approach my 50th year, I find myself asking a question that many people at my stage of life ask themselves: Is it...

EVEN from a distance of several kilometers, the Artemis II rocket looked huge.