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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why can’t Monday lift up Saturday?” Answer: “Because Monday is a week day.” ---------------- Today is the Feast of the Holy ...

So much for the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) repeated assurances that it has been actively working on various infrastructure projects to address the metro’s perennial flood ...

Fourth Quarter 2024 Social Weather Survey: 65 percent of adult Filipinos expect a happy Christmas, down from 73 percent in ...