Here at home on a short holiday break, I feel unease at the prospects for next year, as we face another political “carnival” ...

Cloudy crystal balls” was the title of an article I wrote in early 2020, which proved to be an apt description of how ...

Once again, many parts of the Philippines are turning into a war zone as Filipinos outdo each other in greeting the New Year ...

As we step into 2025, the new year presents an opportunity to transform how low-income Filipinos access public goods and ...

This year, while studying abroad, Christmas feels like a memory I can’t quite hold onto. Missing it brings a peculiar kind of FOMO (fear of missing out) that gnaws at you from September to ...

Revenue targets of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC), the government’s main tax generators ...

Somewhere in one of his masterpieces, Gabriel Marquez writes about how “life obliges [people] over and over again to give birth to themselves.” In many ways, politics is the same, since key ...

Nine friends joined me in going to Germany to undergo the living cell therapy (LCT) scheduled on July 14 (Sunday) to July 19 ...

I made a year-end resolution. For the remaining nine days of the year, I won’t be touching a single drop of alcohol. When ...

We write to clarify the news item published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Dec. 24, 2024, titled “COA flags MTRCB over 15 consultants paid P4 million.” The Movie and Television Review and ...

While women make up half of Southeast Asia’s population, regional efforts to mainstream gender issues so far remain a formidable challenge. However, notable strides have been made in recent years ...