More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI...

By Francesco Agnellini
The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person...

Enhancing regional security: The Philippines would be safer with Taiwan on board

Somewhere in Metro Manila, a young Filipino is trapped inside a scam den, forced to lie to strangers online. Somewhere in Taipei, an elderly Taiwanese man is losing his life savings to a criminal syndicate that operates across countries.

The oil market is always wrong about long-term prices

LET’S BE HONEST: The oil market has always been wrong about long-term prices. Unsurprisingly, it’s currently wrong in anticipating that a barrel of crude...

Clear signals now, more than ever

By Wilfredo G. Reyes
“Bummer,” I told myself as successive news stories on the widening graft mess further eroding our economic growth prospects and business sentiment, and pushing...

Taxing plastic bags

By Marvin Tort
In August, the Senate revived the plastic bag tax discussion by introducing two new measures now pending in committee. Senate Bill No. 811 proposes...

Japan’s gas power and lessons for the Philippines

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
NAGOYA, Japan — I am in Japan’s fourth largest city by population size. Our route was Manila-Narita-Nagoya and our domestic flight from Narita took...

Exit door

By Tony Samson
MUCH ATTENTION is given to where the entrance to a mall or office is located. Usually, the main entrance is at a drop-off point...

Industrial policy for the Philippines: The chip industry is a bright spot

By Bernardo M. Villegas
Can the Philippines still be a major exporter of manufactured exports like the East Asian tigers? With all due respect to the contrary opinion, my answer is no.

Corruption as a moral and economic bane

By Victor Andres C. Manhit
A study by S&P Global forecasts that the Philippines will be a trillion-dollar economy by 2033. The ASEAN+3 Regional Economic Outlook 2025 released in...

There’s already a deal to beat dirty fossil fuels

A UNITED NATIONS climate summit has once again failed to strengthen a pledge made two years ago to transition “away from fossil fuels.” Instead, these dirty drivers of the climate crisis went completely unacknowledged in the weekend’s COP30 agreement. It’s disappointing, certainly, but a more ambitious outcome wouldn’t have been much better.

Three days that matter

EVERY TYPHOON season in the Philippines brings a cycle of loss that is predictable as it is devastating. Fields are flattened, boats destroyed, markets disrupted, and families forced into years of recovery.

The impact of recent developments in AI and their implications for educational policy

By Niceto S. Poblador
In today’s “Knowledge Age,” human capital, of which knowledge is the major component, has become the most important economic resource, supplanting the traditional factors...