Beyond the realm of logic
By Maria Victoria Rufino
The famous Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali was the ultimate dreamer. He created his melting clocks series, floating objects such as a crystal decanter with...
Rethinking, Reforming the strategy
By Mario Antonio G. Lopez
No, this is not a response to Secretary Abella’s statement that our strategy in the war against illegal drugs needs to be rethought and...
For hungry Filipinos during the pandemic, Bayan Bayanihan brings food and hope
WHEN a Philippine Army soldier brought food packs to Rowena P. dela Cruz’s doorstep one Saturday afternoon in April, tears streamed down her face.
Persons With Discount
By Marvin Tort
I have a medical condition, but it doesn’t qualify me as a Person With Disability (PWD). Nor am I a senior citizen — although...
Reinforcing the 2016 Arbitral Victory to uphold a Rules-Based Maritime Order
By Victor Andres C. Manhit
Over the years, the maritime domain has become a key security concern in the Indo-Pacific. Territorial disputes, unlawful acts against the safety of maritime navigation, and illegal activities in the fisheries sector have affected global efforts to promote and advance a rules-based maritime order.
You are invited to jump in
By A. R. Samson
Word wars in the analog age were a relatively slow spectator sport. A game of “he-said-she-said” boosts a slow news day, with its recorded...
Sanity, for now, returns to higher education
By Jemy Gatdula
After months of keeping universities in the dark regarding the education or employment rights of unvaccinated students, faculty, and non-teaching personnel, and months after Vice-President/Department of Education Secretary Sara Duterte called for the lifting of any discriminatory treatment on the unvaccinated, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) finally relented.
Spaces for cooperation
By Victor Andres C. Manhit
Space technology has more practical uses than many would imagine.
It’s easy to see space technology as something quite literally out of this world when...
Are vaccines variant-proof? Here’s some good news
By Sam Fazeli
SCIENCE has delivered some incredible achievements in the fight against COVID-19, not least of which is the swift development of several highly effective vaccines. The question is, will the shots continue to offer strong protection even as the SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates and evolves?
Protecting indigenous knowledge in intellectual property rights
By Raymond C. Suarez, Jr.
Indigenous peoples (IPs) and indigenous cultural communities (ICCs), though explicitly protected under the Constitution itself, sadly remain one of the most marginalized and forgotten sectors in Philippine society. Most often than not, IPs and ICCs are known for their mineral-rich ancestral lands and domains which are the usual targets for mining development projects. Not known to many, however, IPs and ICCs possess other valuable resources, specifically their indigenous knowledge systems and practices (IKSPs) consisting of accumulation of age-old traditional cultural methods and beliefs in medicine, genetic resources, ecology, art, and language, among others.
Lessons from World War II
By Oscar P. Lagman, Jr.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. asked the Armed Forces of the Philippines to prepare as the country faces growing risks arising from Chinese aggression...
Duterte trolls the ICC
By Jemy Gatdula
Something I find really hard to understand is the readiness of some Filipinos to trust a foreign institution rather than their own. This despite...









