As we ended 2025 with a dismal economic growth performance that was virtually cut in half by the massive corruption scandal ...

Multicultural countries celebrate more than one New Year, as we do in the Philippines, with two government-declared New Year ...

DAVAO CITY–Last Friday, I went back to classroom teaching at the invitation of the chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University ...

At around eight in the morning, along Bayan-Bayanan Avenue in Marikina, the city is already awake. Jeepneys cough. Motorcycles thread the traffic. Vendors rinse plastic basins with recycled water. And ...

The right time to build badly needed classrooms, Sen. Bam Aquino observed in a recent education report, was three years ago. Today, the price of that delay is plain to see, as public schools face a ...

The massive flood control scandal that became public in July last year has worsened the perception abroad of corruption in ...

My dad’s central motto has always been “It’s better to be kind than right.” He was, and still is, the kindest soul I know. He ...

Come and join us for the kiddie party tomorrow night. You are our special guest.” My good friend, a hematologist-oncologist, ...

A friend of mine, who is an infectious disease specialist, once observed that many Filipinos tend to delay going to the doctor unless something hurts. He shared the case of a man who consulted him ...

I have always said that the lightning pace of hi-tech innovation is both daunting and exciting. One educational institution that has, through the years, kept up with this blitzkrieg is the Asian ...

Someone said that when a woman cancels a date, it is because she has to; and when a man cancels a date, it is because he has ...