TO JUDGE by the headlines, you’d think the most critical immunization issue facing the world is the safety and hesitancy concerns over the AstraZeneca...

NOW that the quid pro quo in India’s opaque electoral funding has been exposed, electronic voting machines are the next port of call for...

Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the Philippines. The Department of Health (DoH) estimates that almost 7,300...

Studies conducted within the last 10 years have shown that most Filipinos still rely on personal funds to pay for healthcare. Moreover, health-related spending,...

April 15 is the deadline for the most important type of tax payment -- the annual filing of income tax returns (ITRs). Almost all registered taxpayers are required to pay this tax, with only a few exceptions. For the government, the income tax is where the bulk of the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) collections come from.

IF YOU’RE EVER on Twitter or Facebook, there’s a chance you’ve seen prompts like: Date yourself with a picture of your first celebrity crush. Tell me your hilarious porn-star name with the name of your first pet and the street you grew up on. Or: Find your medieval name using the date and month of your birth.

The 35-year-old female Chinese doubles tennis star Peng Shuai disappeared from public view for 18 days after accusing, in a social media post, a retired top official of the Chinese Communist Party of sexual assault.

It’s quite natural and understandable to be very pessimistic and depressed at this time. There seems to be no end to this pandemic and no coherent government plan to end it. Instead, we are seeing another surge, deadlier than the initial one. While I have friends who died in the first wave last year, I know of many more acquaintances and relatives who have recently gotten infected, a number of whom have died.

(Part 3) In the 1950s, the Philippines was considered — together with Burma — the most promising economy in East Asia, way ahead of Singapore,...

Thinking Beyond Politics -- Renato Cruz De Castro On 12 July 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration delivered its long-awaited ruling on the protracted dispute...

It’s been two years and three months into the six-year term of the provincial despotism that became a national affliction in 2016 by promising to deliver the changes that have long eluded the Filipino people. It should be evident by now that it is at the very least underperforming -- or at the worst, rapidly bringing the entire country to ruin.

By Cesar Purisima and Caitlin MacLean IN AN effort to sustain economic growth, the Philippine government is turning to infrastructure development with its bold P9-trillion...