President Marcos may be experiencing the early onset of ”lame-duckism”: the erosion of practical governing authority before ...

Why has the peso kept losing value even after the recent “jumbo” interest rate hike by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)?

The meeting of defense chiefs from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and its dialogue partners, including the United States, Japan, and Australia, in Cebu last week could not have ...

The recent political event in Mindanao has made the country notice our supposedly “Land of Promise”—an island that is still often forgotten. I’m referring to the first parliamentary elections ...

Marawi/Bukidnon—“A society that mocks virtue prepares its own collapse.” That’s how Socrates’ politically immortal wisdom is usually summarized. Unquestionably, ours is a divided nation, and ...

In recent years, we’ve had a strange break in our academic year, a hybrid of All Saints’ Day/All Souls’ Day and Halloween, providing something like Holy Week, more profane than holy, and ...

A contractor friend once explained to me how the standard operating procedure system works. Before a government project even begins, a percentage of the contract price may already be committed to ...

Hi, are you the one on duty today? Are you ready to go on rounds?” More than two decades ago, these were the questions posed ...

At a Christmas family reunion over a decade ago, my husband and I overheard my grandmother repeatedly ask my grandfather how ...

A couple of years ago, I started hearing the unthinkable. Expats, I was told, who’d long loved living in the Philippines, no ...

For a country where many of its poorest die without being attended to by medical professionals in their lifetime, there is ...