The most remarkable, and most distressing, finding from our Dec. 12-18 survey on the people’s expectations for 2025 is the ...

As 2025 begins, we look at the winners and losers in the Indo-Pacific region in 2024, who had it good and who had it bad. Here is our Asia Year-in-Review 2024. Worst year: Asia’s climate ...

Imagine you are at work and your manager bombards you with tasks to be done as soon as possible. Or you are a student who just saw your failing grades in a specific subject. A daughter or son who ...

It appears that while most Filipinos were busy with recent holiday festivities, an operative of the Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) had tried to pull a fast one on the country’s ...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) should have rolled out the new polymer notes last November, if only to gauge acceptance ...

Why does the start of a new year often evoke both excitement and apprehension? Jan. 1 and the first week of the year arrive ...

The good news is that seven of 13 Filipino women trafficked into Cambodia to become surrogate birth mothers have been ...

If there’s one man who’s been everywhere in the news since Donald Trump won the election, it’s business tycoon Elon Musk, wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat on his head and the ...

Among the many things that 2024 has shown us, it is that national and economic security cannot be separated from each other. No less than President Marcos said: “Economic security is national ...

I’ve always admired the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (ICM). Not a few of them are deeply engaged in advancing social justice. Uncompromising, brave, intelligent, and gifted ...

As reviled as it is by many who have experienced being on the bad side of the law, there is hope yet for the justice system in the Philippines, one that is exemplified by the extraordinary tale of a ...

The advent of a new year transforms everyone into an optimist. It’s a time when we look past the dark clouds that brought disappointments in the year that just passed, which also threaten to ...