The entire Hong Kong subway network -- which carries some four million passengers a day -- was suspended on Friday night, leaving protesters, locals, and tourists stranded. “Shopping malls were closed, supermarket chains said they would not open and many mainland Chinese banks, which were targeted in Friday night’s violence, stayed shuttered, their façades sprayed with graffiti. In some locations, long lines formed at supermarkets as residents stocked up, fearing further clashes,” Agence France Presse News (AFP) reported.

Foreign debt can be a boon or a bane for any economy. In the Philippines, it has been both.

“A WISE GENERAL makes a point of foraging on the enemy,” according to the Chinese general Sun Tzu. “One cartload of the enemy’s provisions is equivalent to 20 of one’s own.”

AS I WAS PREPARING to assume duties as supreme allied commander at NATO a decade ago, the two people I sought out for counsel were both generals: Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft.

I have no doubt that in the coming years, more and more Filipinos will switch to electric vehicles or EVs. But I also believe...

As there is much talk about the Philippine economy preparing to join Industrial Revolution 4.0 (Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, robotics, data science, etc.), there is widespread unease among both local and international economists that the country has not even completed the three previous stages of the industrial revolution, especially those stages in which manufacturing took the lead.

Instead of useless lamentations and wailings about the very poor performance of our 15-year youth in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) achievement tests in reading, arithmetic, and science, private citizens (which include those in the business sector, civil society, academe, and religious communities) should do whatever they can to look for practical solutions to the ongoing education crisis.

The post-election period is of many things -- grudging, irregularities, media hyping, protests, and celebration. Today, however, the major current has shifted toward electoral stability, improvement and reforms.

The launch of Zonta Club of Makati and Environs’ Golden celebration was a well-planned Zoom program of speeches, and videos with music and dance.

Echoing his appointees in his propaganda machine, and the trolls and hacks who infest social media as well as some newspapers and broadcast networks,...

Last week, on Feb. 3, the House Committee on Energy held a public hearing about a Meralco refund and an investigation on the absence...

Not even child rights advocates have been saying that children are incapable of committing crimes. Neither has anyone said that children are angels. But in reaction to Senator Risa Hontiveros’ opposition to the bill lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 12, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte made it seem as if those two assumptions were at the heart of the resistance to that outrage.