Yellow Pad By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Her full name is Rizalina Bautista Boncan. Friends call her Saling. We call her Tita Saling -- the...

Filipinos are being destabilized by all kinds of risks -- political, safety and security, economic and external. It’s not that we’re new to it but we’ve never been through all that’s happening at the same time in rising intensity, real or imagined. What am I referring to? Hang on to your seats as I run through my list.

The Philippines Today Faces Dire Challenges From The Covid-19 And Regional Security — Violent Extremism And Chinese Incursion In The West Philippine Sea, Among Others. We From Muslim Mindanao Worry That The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region In Muslim Mindanao (Barmm) Will Again Be The Last Priority. This Will Surely Be Counterproductive.

While we applaud the government for another piece of tax legislation which will help small businesses bounce back, the approval came too close to the April 15 deadline. This resulted in some confusion and an appeal to extend the deadline for the filing of the Annual Income Tax Return (AITR).

Multi-Party Arbitration is an arbitration involving at least three parties. In the Philippines, various dispute resolution institutions categorically include in their rules of procedure...

Last week, we were invited to an online webinar on human rights and inflation by university students from St. Paul in Mindanao with attorney...

The day before Valentine’s Day, red roses were selling briskly at P5,000 per dozen/per bouquet at a small flower stand in a Makati mall. What a waste, the dumpy old widow grumbled to herself -- whoever guy is giving that near-wilting bunch of flowers to his lady love would do better to give her the cash.

“OPTICS,” in the sociopolitical sense, refers to how an action or event is perceived by others. Something that is not illegal may still be seen as inappropriate for the times or for a particular personality.

Last Jan. 18, leaders of 30 Philippine medical societies gathered to call for the Senate passage of a bill increasing the excise tax on cigarettes to at least P60 per pack. “The increase will provide crucial funding for the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act that will benefit the current and future generations of all Filipinos from womb to tomb,” went their manifesto.

There is a great deal of rahrahrah these days for the magic of rice tariffication as the latest bright idea to bring down the price of rice and end the constant threat of rice-shortages from the decades of rice importation control through quota restrictions by the National Food Authority. Rice tariffication is also proposed as a magic wand to help improve the incomes of our beleaguered and aging (average age is 57) rice farmers.

On Jan. 31, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released the report, “Birth, Marriage, and Death Statistics for 2024 (Provisional, as of 30 November 2024).”...

THE LAST FEW YEARS have been truly catastrophic. One might easily argue that, during “The COVID Years,” we have witnessed more dramatic social and political change than at any time since 1939-1945.