In 2000, a person born in the Philippines could expect to live to about 70 years old. By 2021, that expectation had fallen to ...

A frustrated mother recently shared on a public online forum that, for almost the entire month of August, her child went to ...

The country’s government debt is going to hit P19.77 trillion by the end of 2026—from only P6 trillion in 2016, averaging an annual deficit of P1.4 trillion. The government’s shift to borrow ...

There is a set of pump barriers sitting on the North Luzon Expressway in Pampanga this week that has no particular reason to be there. They belong to the MMDA. The first M stands for Metropolitan ...

The Edsa busway is one of the casualties of the cuts made to the Department of Transportation's (DOTr) proposed budget for next year—getting zero allocation. The busway, also known as the ...

The Kansai International Airport (KIX) in Japan opened in 1994 on an artificial island in Osaka Bay; it now sits on two. The seabed there lies 18 meters down, under rock and soil dumped from three ...

The story is told about a man who was elated with a satellite dish he bought for only P500. The dish, when connected to his ...

Every high school graduation season, I witness social media—and this year, my email inbox—become a brutal battlefield for the ...

Earlier this year, both the poor and the hungry had a little respite from the economic strains of 2024-2025 that halted the ...

In the past few months, government agents, specifically the National Bureau of Investigation, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, and environmental authorities conducted joint operations ...

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If there’s any consolation in these gray overcast days, it’s that the word “resilience” has lost its shine, and is now regarded as a curse dooming us to a relentless cycle of calamities, the ...