[Kasalikasan] A visit to the homes at Smokey Mountain

'At Smokey Mountain, despite its past and ongoing threat of relocation, people have made farms and communities'

[Vantage Point] Holiday dividend or market coal? What GCash could deliver by Christmas

Holiday dividend or market coal? What GCash could deliver by Christmas.

NOBEL FOR TRUMP

The end is near

The House impeachment prosecution panel has concluded its presentation of evidence to convict Sara Zimmerman Duterte and oust her as the country’s vice president.

Did the POGOs really leave?

THE growth of Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) has often been discussed through the lens of revenue, employment and regulation. Yet beneath these economic arguments lies an urgent question. What is the…

Understanding our heritage through Museo Del Galeon

Every home visit allows me to rediscover the Philippines and aspects of our heritage.

Academic freedom no alibi for enabling Sara Duterte

IT is deeply disheartening that, despite an avalanche of documented evidence that, in my judgment, establishes Sara Duterte’s unfitness for public office, we still see academics in universities in Mindanao and across…

The journey’s the thing

Five years after the pandemic lockdowns, travel has pretty much recovered.

A law that can keep up

CONGRESS can draw an age limit in a statute. Making that boundary work on a teenager’s cellphone is another matter entirely. That is the challenge facing the proposed Safe Media Access and Responsible Technology for…

Slow progress and a jet full of drugs

Ask Filipinos, especially minimum wage earners, about the skyrocketing cost of living in the country these days and you will surely get the same answer – if only there was some kind of relief.

Out in the cold

LAST Friday, I attended a forum organized by the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) in the aftermath of the 44th Asean Ministers on Energy Meeting (AMEM) and the Asean Energy…

Widening

Three Filipinos were reported injured in a Houthi missile attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport last Saturday.

The world stopped trading on trust. We’re paying the bill

LIKE most of you, I wanted to see the big picture and zoom in on the Philippines. My sense is that the interdependent global economy is sinking like the Titanic, and no one has been able to stop it so far. I turned to…

EDITORIAL - Drug trafficking hub

The country is reaping another dubious honor in a region where it has become a laggard in many development indicators: authorities in three Southeast Asian states have linked the Philippines to cross-border drug…

The not so lost years

First of two parts THERE is a dearth of detail on the life of the Brains of the Katipunan Emilio Jacinto after his leader, friend and mentor Andres Bonifacio’s death on May 10, 1897. But he left papers that give us an…

Paper is not proof

THE prosecution has arrived with paper by the box, but impeachment is not won by weight. Official folders can raise suspicion; they do not, by their own mass, prove guilt. The decisive question is narrower and harder…

The plight of our farmers and our food insecurity

FILIPINOS consume 17 million to 18 million metric tons of rice annually. On the supply side, Filipino rice farmers produce only 12 million to 13 million metric tons of rice from a mere 6 percent of land area of the…

Is it the social environment or lawful enforcement?

IT’S bemusing to watch social media videos of clearing operations on public roads by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and its local government counterparts. In many villages in Metro Manila…

The numbers the Dutertes can no longer dismiss

FOR years, questions about the Duterte family’s wealth were easy to fight politically. Attack the accuser. Question his motives. Call the allegations propaganda. Reduce the controversy to partisan warfare. Then wait for…