In the latest Social Weather Stations survey conducted from March 15 to 25, 2025, 27.2 percent of Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger—meaning they were hungry and had nothing to ...

Peak electricity demand is just months away. It’s not yet officially summertime but, according tothe Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa),high heat ...

As the senatorial and local election campaigns nears May 12 D-Day, the political landscape is more tumultuous than ever. The arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte for crimes against humanity has ...

Never doubt the ability — nay, audacity — of the Chinese government to twist the facts to suit its ends, even when its chosen ...

What many now describe as “Trump’s tariff tantrum” is widely feared to lead to serious disruption of the world economy, and ...

Brussels/Manila—“The last we saw this happening, we sleepwalked towards global recession [and conflict],” a top European ...

Filipinos have always had an intimate, even mystical relationship with death. It is not merely the end of life, but a social ...

Thus said Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s Prime Minister, in issuing a warning amid the worrisome pronouncements made by the ...

A few months ago, a new acquaintance of mine, who I had met just once a week earlier, told me out of nowhere, “I feel I should let you know I sometimes become quite blunt when I speak.” I was ...

When United States President Donald Trump unleashed last week new tariffs on American imports from dozens of countries, the ...

Former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his wife Imelda, et al., won Civil Case No. 0033 (later subdivided into eight ...

A colleague called me for advice about a patient who recently underwent abdominal surgery for intestinal perforation. She shared that in the past months, there had been reports of clustering of ...