President Marcos should have an added spring to his step these days as he prepares to deliver his fourth State of the Nation Address next week, buoyed by the hard-won improvement over the last two ...

The Story of Courage and Grace, July 14, 2025, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. This was how the week started, with an invite from the ...

One of the scientific breakthroughs that shaped our approach to education and youth development is neuroplasticity. Also known as brain plasticity, this refers to our brain’s ability to constantly ...

I had no reason to own a rice cooker. I had always stayed with family. When I moved to the United States to get a master’s degree, I cooked rice on the stove. In the last ...

When Mr. Rodrigo Duterte was our president, he deliberately attacked God, morality, and human rights. It warped our sense of right and wrong and dulled our resistance to the violence and corruption ...

Like many of us Filipinos, I loved my parents dearly and unequivocally. I never left them in their old age, nor on their sickbed, and I supported them until they breathed their last. I did ...

W aking up from a short afternoon nap the other day, I thought I had overslept. I reached for my phone to check the time, only to be greeted by a Viber notification cheerfully announcing: “Karina ...

The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has blamed the controversial dolomite beach project built during the Duterte ...

Lately, while the F4 reunion has been catching everyone else’s fancy, it was Taiwan of a different kind that caught the attention of my AP book club: the translated novel “Taiwan Travelogue”.

In my opinion, the title of the Pew Research Center’s recent report, “International views of China turn slightly more positive” (pewresearch.org, 7/15/25), was rather diplomatic. Quite accurate ...

I’ve always believed that life comes in stages. For the longest time, I thought I was running behind. By 29, I imagined I’d ...

In what could easily be the most violent maritime attacks since the Israel-Hamas conflict in October 2023, Houthi rebels in the Red Sea sank two cargo vessels early this month. A total of 38 Filipino ...