Southeast Asia is often described as facing tough trade-offs on clean energy. Demand is rising, coal plants are young, and governments are under pressure to keep electricity affordable. On paper, ...

The Philippines has once again proven its dominance in the global pageant arena, continuing its strong back-to-back placements in the Miss Cosmo pageant and offering a ray of hope to this new pageant ...

The death of former Department of Public Works and Highways Undersecretary Maria Catalina “Cathy” Cabral in Benguet has drawn a deep and uneasy pause from many in government, civil society, and ...

When the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) released its Year One report for 2023, “Miseducation: The Failed System of Education,” we held a mirror up to the ...

How is it that, year after year, so many journalists meet such tragic fates? We need to be frank about something Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn addressed in a speech at Harvard in 1979: the decline in ...

In our country, to seek psychological help is to face a long-hour queue at the National Center for Mental Health. Patients have to sacrifice a whole day standing in long lines to see a ...

Filipinos greet the New Year in many ways: some make noise, others light firecrackers, and some hear Mass followed by a midnight meal with family and friends. Children are encouraged to jump to grow ...

For a while there, the figures rekindled hopes among Filipinos that finally, their long-held dream of having their own home was on the cusp of being reality. At the launch of the Pambansang ...

Charity and goodwill are the sentiments most often expected to be practiced during the holiday season, so it can seem ...

The first day of the year is always tinged with excitement and joy. At the stroke of midnight last Dec. 31, we welcomed 2026 ...

My young nieces were looking up at a poster, asking me what it means. It was a family gathering hosted by my cousin and she ...

In 2023, nearly half of new inmates were repeat offenders. Although the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) have worked to improve postrelease support, ...