While the Philippines remains heavily reliant on rice despite being a major importer, recognizing and investing in alternative root crops like ube and taro can enhance food security and agricultural diversity
Each month, the Visa Office of the State Department publishes, in the Visa Bulletin, the priority dates for that particular month for the various family and employment-based categories.
GROWTH must be more than just a headline; it must become a real experience.” With these words, Budget Secretary Kim Robert de Leon laid out the challenges for the Philippines after it achieved upper-middle-income…
For millions of Filipinos, transportation is not an abstract policy debate.
GROWTH must be more than just a headline; it must become a real experience.” With these words, Budget Secretary Kim Robert de Leon laid out the challenges for the Philippines after it achieved upper-middle-income…
The camp of international fugitive Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa has complained about the P50-million bounty offered for his arrest, calling it baseless and claiming that it puts his life in danger.
“IMMENSITY” in the Latin American context means only one thing: Brazil. Its 8.5 million square kilometers of land area occupies about half of South America and is the fifth-largest country in the world, after Russia…
The Marcos administration has waged a credible war against corruption that has resulted in some big fish, senators included, landing in jail.
AS I indicated in my Thursday column (“An imperfect but workable alternative,” Oct. 29, 2026), I have fallen victim to the pestilence that the Department of Health is describing as a “flu-like illness,” which has…
It is Halloween as I write this and the usual party-goers have shown up in their spookiest best.
SANRIO, the company behind the popular “Hello Kitty” character, was forced to terminate its partnership with a television series produced by the Tokyo Broadcasting System. Apparently, China was unhappy with recent…
For an archipelagic country like the Philippines, security at sea is inseparable from the daily lives of our people.
THE Zamboanga siege, the Bohol earthquake, Super Typhoon Haiyan, and the Mamasapano massacre. Then the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, the flood-control corruption scandal, surging inflation, crumbling growth, the falling peso…
The United States, according to its secretary of war, remains committed to defending its interests and those of its allies and partners.
THE awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist and former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Navi Pillay for her lifelong efforts to promote peace, international law and human rights has been…
DEFENSE Secretary Giberto Teodoro Jr. has warned that the forced removal of the BRP Sierra Madre by China would constitute an act of war. His warning raises a serious question: Is the Philippines prepared for the…
IMAGINE two photographers standing on the same street corner at almost the same hour, aiming at the same crowd. One captures the faces in front; the other frames a different arrangement behind them. Both pictures may be…
SHANGHAI, China — My search for truth inside China has been stymied. Banned from the China Development Forum (CDF), after participating for 25 years as the longest-attending foreign delegate, I feel like an outsider in…
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