Global Witness released its annual report on the state of the world’s environmental defenders, and the Philippines again recorded the most killings in Asia for the 13th straight year, with 12 cases
It is deeply frustrating to watch a vital constitutional mechanism get bogged down by what many perceive as criminal trial tactics and partisan delays
Philweb’s investment in JKS rests on a valuation that raises questions
I hope more older Filipinos return to classrooms. We need places where generations can meet — where experience encounters new knowledge, where assumptions can be challenged.
On Friday night, Sept. 25, 2026, I was a moderator at the MOPC Senate Night with Senate President Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian as guest of honor and speaker.
THE reappointment of Jose V. Camacho Jr. as chancellor of the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Clement C. Camposano as chancellor of UP Visayas has generated opposition from students and organized employees…
Our country is poor not because Filipinos lack ambition.
THE past year was a watershed for the Department of Education. With a P1.01 trillion budget, it finished building the last-mile schools that the previous education secretary, Vice President Sara Duterte, failed to do…
When President Marcos recently boasted that “we will soon be seeing a Filipino electric vehicle, tricycle and maybe down the road, we can make a jeepney,” he probably didn’t realize that the factory he was visiting had…
MARY Jane Veloso is finally free. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s absolute pardon, granted just last week, allowed her to leave prison after nearly 16 years of incarceration. Her reunion with her family is an ending…
Imagine this.
IN football — the American kind — there is this trope among coaches to gather together their teams at the end of the third quarter (the game is divided into four quarters of 15 minutes each), and declare, “okay, it’s a…
The Department of Information and Communications Technology, led by Sec. Henry Aguda, ordered the National Telecommunications Commission to block the platform Discord.
A GROWTH corridor is not a slogan painted on a map. It is a decision to treat geography as an asset instead of a wound. Between Mindanao and Borneo lies one of Southeast Asia’s oldest commercial arteries, the Malay…
A former policeman has emerged with a story of large-scale corruption involving top incumbent and former government officials.
DESPITE their distance from each other, the love and trust of Supreme President Andres Bonifacio (Maypagasa) in his beloved young commanding general was never broken. From March to April 1897, he wrote from Cavite and…
WALKABILITY is a hallmark of a sustainable and inclusive city. A safe and convenient pathway for pedestrians encourage urban dwellers to walk distances which in many cities can be considered healthy and secure. In rural…
THE rebirth of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Dec. 26, 1968, from a breakaway faction of the old Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP-1930), whose armed wing was led by Luis Taruc’s Hukbong Magpapalaya…
DATES do not decide a case. But when allegations involve a government project, public funds and a later financial transaction cited as evidence of a possible connection, dates can tell us what questions still need to be…
THE Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey conducted by the Pew Research Center reports that 40 percent of Filipinos hold a favorable view of China. This figure marks an increase from the 34 percent recorded in the 2024…
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