Echoes From

  JOURNALISTS have creatively given the monstrous traffic chaos in Manila as “Carmageddon.” The chaos has earned Manila the ignominious...

  WHAT was deemed as a ‘negli­gible’ sea accident, the Recto Bank fiasco, which transpired in the West Philippine Sea...

  FOR the 19th year, the presti­gious The Outstanding Cebuano Award (TOCA), the equivalent of Manila’s Outstanding Manileños and Davao...

  WERE the Chinese mindful when they designated 2019 as the ‘year of the pig,’ an animal detested by Muslims...

  PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Du­terte’s fourth State of the Nation Address was straightfor­ward and measured. Except for a handful of...

  AGRICULTURE secretary Em­manuel “Manny” Piñol’s reas­signment as new Mindanao Devel­opment Authority (MinDA) head should be viewed with optimism. Born...

  RELYING on the journal of proceedings of the 1986 Constitutional Convention, the Su­preme Court, in its 2002 decision on...

  RECENTLY elected govern­ment officials, except a few, have already assumed their re­spective offices. They are ex­pected to deliver on...

  TO address the frequent reports of financial scams perpetrated by greedy oppor­tunist schemers who routinely victimize gullible Filipinos who...

  FOR a megalopolitan cen­ter like Metro Manila, urban traffic is a fact of life, which in sense also reflects...

DEVELOPMENTS relat­ed to the race for the Speaker position of the House of Representatives, the coun­try’s fourth highest and most...

  SCIENCE and technology, ably backed by creative research and development, are crucial drivers and propellers for change towards meaning­ful...

  AN interesting political drama related to the Lower House leadership in the incoming Congress has started to evolve. Given...

  THE proposed establishment of a clear Philippine Space Development and Utilization Policy and creation of the Phil­ippine Space Agency...

  POLITICAL experts and ana­lysts have collectively agreed that millennial votes in general would influence the 2019 elec­tion results. Many...

LAST-minute gambits in Phil­ippine politics can impact on election outcomes. The most interesting of such cases trans­pired in 1992 when...