Last year was challenging for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). Its leaders struggled to find viable solutions to addressing the ongoing conflict in Myanmar, while border clashes ...

With the Philippines’ basic literacy rate pegged at some 93 percent, it comes as a shock to learn from a recent report that ...

Students who laugh sheepishly when I tell them that there is a lot more to the internet than TikTok and porn have been ...

There is a quiet unease many students carry as they move through school; despite years of classes, exams, and requirements, real understanding never fully settles. It is the feeling of reaching the ...

As an educator, I have spent years in classrooms, daycare centers, and community learning spaces, conversing with parents, teachers, daycare workers and other adults working with children. And if ...

Sometimes, the most promising strategies for economic growth are hidden in plain sight. The Philippines is a case in point, as it possesses two underutilized agricultural assets: coconut and abaca.

We are on the brink of a profound crisis. I expected a powerful response during the “Trillion Peso March,” but it turned out to be underwhelming—much like the “People Power” protests of the ...

In recent months, much has been said about public anger—anger over corruption, over waste, and over institutions that seem unable or unwilling to reform. As part of the Roundtable for Inclusive ...

A joke has been making the rounds of social media since Monday night. Roughly translated from Filipino, it goes: He got sent back to jail faster than the P124.5 million the court had ordered him to ...

At the top of President Marcos’ mind at the moment must be three things: his plunging trust rating, the public works ...

Can the Filipino public accept blanket denials after months of waiting for those implicated in the corruption scandal to come clean about their involvement? Expecting them to tell “the truth, the ...

Last Jan. 5, President Marcos signed into law the P6.79 trillion national budget for 2026. This amount is equivalent to 22 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and represents a ...