Reacting to President Rodrigo Duterte’s remark that The Hague ruling favoring the Philippines over China in the dispute over the West Philippine Sea is “just a scrap of paper to be thrown away in a waste basket,” retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio quipped, “He (President Rodrigo Duterte) honestly believes that Chinese President Xi Jinping will protect him should the military stage a coup d’état against him.”

THE MAIN PROBLEM with large commercial establishments is the “too-big-to-fail” feature: when a commercial and industrial enterprise has become so large and encompassing, they achieve quasi-immunity from regulatory intervention by virtue of size and systemic reach.

By Leonid Bershidsky THERE’S something in common between amazing story of “Nicole Mincey,” the pseudonymous Twitter user with 146,000 followers who was retweeted by President...

WE ARE LIVING in an era of a polycrisis: the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency, and the Russian invasion of...

SMC Global Power Holdings Corp., the energy arm of San Miguel Corp., is readying to sell “battery” power to the public at P2-3 per kilowatt-hour, as soon as it gets the permit to do so. It has so far completed a network of battery energy storage facilities nationwide with a capacity of over 500-megawatt-hours.

What happened in the Speakership issue, and how it was decided and resolved, should be one more reminder of the reality that, not only due to the indifference of much of the population but also with the collaboration of a political class solely concerned with power and advantage, what obtains in the country today as in martial law days is the unaccountable and uncheckable rule of one man.

While our National Government leaders play at disgusting adolescent political posturing more than four years before the next presidential election, the country continues to...

Considering that Spain is one of the top European countries when it comes to such renewable energy sources as solar and wind, we included in the agenda an additional presentation on a specific investment case of solar energy in off-grid areas like some islands in Palawan. 

National Artist Nick Joaquin, way back in 1966, wondered how our obsession and “timorous clinging to smallness” — with tingi-tingi (bit by bit), the sari-sari (sundry) store, the “jeepney conveyance,” the purchase of cigarette by a single stick — all started. He wondered how this preference for the “small” spills over to a mindset biased against thinking big.

AS US President Donald Trump’s sweeping trade levies take effect and raise his country’s average duties to the highest since World War II, it’s easy to imagine globalization is in reverse and that a new era of protectionism, fragmentation, and reshoring has begun. Some of the gloom may be overdone.

There are statements making social media rounds that view the qualifications of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. — his eligibility to run for President — as a political question. The argument goes that a political question cannot be decided by the Commission on Elections, and ultimately by the Supreme Court. This is incorrect.

THE right to food is a fundamental human right recognized internationally. It ensures that every individual has access to adequate food that is nutritious...