Pity the Supreme Court justices. Their clogged dockets are being crowded further by numerous new “transcendental” cases. Most ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. declared a rice emergency in response to the extraordinary rise in local rice prices despite lower global market prices and a reduction ...

President Marcos’ declaration to downgrade the People Power Anniversary on Feb. 25 to a special working day was disappointing, but it didn’t come as a surprise. We can’t expect the President to ...

Black and white, out of all the shades that exist in nature, are obviously the most contrasting. Black is the absence of light; on the other hand, white is the combination of all wavelengths of ...

A survey commissioned by the Stratbase group and the Social Weather Station conducted from Feb. 15 to 19 brings to mind P-Noy’s well-known mantra: “Walang mahirap, kung walang corrupt.” The ...

Gentle giant Early in the week, a young colleague passed peacefully to a better place. His mission was most probably ...

Last week, a young woman competing in a noontime show beauty pageant went viral after admitting during the ...

They are tasty, cheap, and convenient, but also very harmful to one’s health. With massive global appeal of instant noodles, ...

The junction between Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) and Ortigas Avenue in the late 1980s (top) and what it looks like ...

Sometimes called the “great pause,” the COVID-19 pandemic began in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China. One month later, on Jan. 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a ...

The story is told about two men who were talking to each other. The first one said: “I recently got married because I was ...

For decades, the Philippine government has invited investors—both local and foreign—to pour their hard-earned money into ...