Manila’s billboard jungle
By Greg B. Macabenta
My friend Greg Garcia, who is a bona fide advertising guru, has a piece of advice for the ad agencies and advertisers responsible for...
Community action against hunger goes viral
By Teresa S. Abesamis
When he was president of the Ateneo de Manila University, Jesuit Fr. Bienvenido Nebres developed a program of outreach to public schools as a...
‘Displaced Personnel’: a labor consequence of the K to 12
By Shenna Jane T. Parado
Almost four (4) years have lapsed since the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, or Republic Act 10533 (RA 10533), introduced the Enhanced Basic...
How about Labor Day on a different date?
By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr.
Today is Labor Day in the Philippines as it is in many countries. Labor Day is synonymous with, or linked with International Workers’ Day,...
Memories of UP ‘masa’ dorm
By Rolando T. Dy
Yakal is a dorm in UP Diliman. It was a “masa” dorm as it had double-deck beds good for four. It was known...
No more ‘business as usual’ for electricity in the Philippines
By Eddie O’ Connor
AS the economy in the Philippines continues to grow, energy demand races ahead. Recent analysis by the Asia Development Bank and...
Instituting bayanihan in governance and policy making
By May Zuleika Salao and Michael Henry Ll.Yusingco
EVERY Filipino has been taught that bayanihan is the indigenous cultural phenomenon of community solidarity. It is...
Endo and Manufacturing
By Raul V. Fabella
HB 6908 or “An Act Strengthening the Security of Tenure of Workers” was approved on third reading by the House of Representatives. It proposes...
Fixing unfairness of incentives and more in TRAIN 2
By Karla Michelle Yu
In our engagement with the private sector with regard to the second package of the comprehensive tax reform, I often hear a similar view...
North and South Korea: Blood brothers
By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea met on April 27 in Panmunjom in the center of the heavily...
Consumer choice in electricity supply and prices
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
In several statistics comparing electricity prices in Asia, the Philippines often ranks as the third most expensive in Asia next to Japan, Singapore, or...
Rights and Consequences
By Jemy Gatdula
To paraphrase John Henry Newman: we have rights precisely because we have responsibilities.
From the moment of our conception, as rational creatures oriented towards integral...