EDSA has always been more than just a road. It is Metro Manila’s main artery, carrying millions of people daily as we head to...

“We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like — dead.” US President Donald Trump said to a group of reporters at a...

Earlier this year, a digestive disorder that many Filipinos had rarely heard of suddenly captured national attention when it was widely reported by news...

ONE LESS EXPECTED development since the US and Israel unleashed an air war on Iran last weekend has been the distribution of the Iranian response.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2026 reads less like a warning and more like a diagnosis. Its central finding is stark. The...

It may take a long time to process and to reach the point of awakening. Then we discover what is important in life —...

AS THE US and Israel began their joint assault on Iran, reports emerged from Iran that a strike hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab.

I suspect many Filipinos who struggle to make ends meet each day regard China’s coercion in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) this way: it’s...

In the dictionary of government service, there is perhaps no word more destructive to progress than “indefinitely.” When a system stalls or when a...

Last week, on Feb. 24, I attended the ASEAN Editors and Economic Opinion Leaders Forum at the Fairmont Hotel in Makati. Organized by the...

CERTAIN BARS cater to a niche market that is seduced by the songs (and dances) of the ’60s and ’70s. The parking spaces around...

Since Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew realized the folly of population control, one country after another that fell into the demographic trap (and, for some them, consequently into the Middle Income Trap), there have been futile efforts to reverse the decline in their fertility rate through appealing to all sorts of human motivations, financial or otherwise.