On university rankings and global asymmetries
By Fidel Nemenzo
Universities across the world, including our own, are being quietly but profoundly reshaped. Corporatization, commercialization, and metrification, amplified by global university rankings and politicized...
Humans have found the keys to Mother Nature’s R&D lab
INSIDE National Geographic’s March issue is the photo of a tractor tire dangling from a thread.
Regulatory agility key to faster access to life-saving medicines
By Teodoro B. Padilla
Access to life-saving medicines often depends not only on scientific breakthroughs, but on how quickly and efficiently regulatory systems can evaluate and approve them.
National...
Assessing the first half of the Marcos Jr. administration: Agriculture
By Bernardo M. Villegas
Let us start with agriculture. At the very outset, let me state that it is in this sector where we can give a relatively high rating to the performance of the current administration.
The urgency of tackling the cost-of-living crisis
By Victor Andres C. Manhit
In a survey conducted by Pulse Asia between Feb. 27 and March 2 this year, 59% of respondents said they considered inflation to be...
Digital detox in the Age of AI
By Donald Patrick Lim
For the past year, artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated nearly every business conversation. Boardrooms are discussing it. Schools are teaching it. Companies are investing...
From criminal penalties to civil remedies: Reexamining libel and cyberlibel in the Philippines
By April Jane S. Sillada
Cyberlibel remains the top recorded cybercrime in the Philippines in 2025, according to recent data from the Department of Information and Communications Technology and...
Leadership in uncertain times: 5 priorities for business amid the Middle East crisis
By Donald L. Lim
The crisis in the Middle East may ultimately prove more difficult for business than COVID-19.
During the pandemic, there was at least a clear response....
The oil market is moving into demand destruction mode
FIVE WEEKS into the Third Gulf War, the math of oil-barrel counting is intractable: The world is short of the black stuff.
Trump’s war and energy damage
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
We are now on the fifth week of US President Donald Trump’s war against Iran and things are still bad.
I have seen some...
In the Easter story, women are the first to proclaim the resurrection — but...
ON EASTER SUNDAY, festively decorated churches across the United States will be filled with worshippers eager to celebrate the most important day in the Christian year.
Iran War: Trump is depleting a more powerful weapon than US missiles
IT WAS REPORTED last week that the Iranian missile inventory has been depleted from about 5,000 to a thousand or so, and that the US and its allies are now firing one or two Patriots at each incoming airborne threat, in place of the clusters unleashed at the start. In other words, both sides are experiencing munitions shortages.