A very laudable initiative to help them deal with the conflicts that normally arise in the relationships between husband and wife from the mere fact that they are human and, therefore, fallible, is that by a married couple, Boni and Alice Belen.  They have written a three-part series of books (to be expanded to five parts in the future) entitled Your Happy Marriage.

Most electricity consumers have that single most important concern and “vested interest” -- to have cheap, competitively priced and stable electricity supply. Meaning no brownout even for a minute and yet the price is affordable.

During US Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s three-day visit to China, President Xi Jinping bluntly told the visiting American defense official: “Our stance is steadfast and clear-cut when it comes to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, we can’t lose even an inch of territory inherited from our ancestors, and China won`t take anything that belongs to others. Beijing has no colonial ambition but will never shy away from defending every each of its territory.”

The answer appears to be yes. After a checkered history of boom and bust cycles since the founding of the Republic in 1946, punctuated...

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released today an update on causes of deaths in the Philippines for the period January-November 2022. I expanded the...

By Abdurohman and Xianguo Huang FOR DECADES, the middle-income trap was viewed as a slow-burn structural dilemma. Economies grew rapidly by mobilizing labor and capital,...

SINGAPOREAN voters will cast their ballots on Sept. 1 to choose their president, the fifth time they will directly make their choice. Before 1993,...

For the last few weeks, we have been witnesses to a highly contentious, if not bitter, speakership race between former Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and newly elected Speaker Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco. This bitter fight stems from the highly publicized “term-sharing agreement” between the two gentlemen which was arrived at, if not even brokered by no less than the President, at the beginning of the 18th Congress in July 2019.

Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) is designated as a priority bill. It has also been issued a certificate of urgency by the President. In late November 2020, the Senate passed CREATE on third reading.  It was anticipated that soon after, a bicameral conference committee would reconcile the Senate and House versions. But it has taken a long time for the bicameral conference committee to formally approve the bill.

Of course, Donald Trump always gets the media’s pummeling. One would think the simple act of choosing where the embassy should be located is a...

The Philippines experiences plenty of flooding yearly. Our problem is we have too much water and thus floods, but we do not have enough...

The business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines is at a critical crossroads. As the world rapidly embraces artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, a...