Editorial

THERE were hopes that Internet speed in the Philippines – the slowest in Southeast Asia and one of the slowest...

Our hope is that one day, working and living abroad will be “a choice, more than a need” for Filipinos....

Last June after President Duterte won the election, Archbishop Socrates Villegas, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines...

THE national budget is the single most important piece of legislation by any Congress and it is only right that...

JUST when the traffic situation seemed to be improving in one part of Metro Manila, it would get jammed elsewhere...

TWENTY years after our last Olympic medal, an unexpected heroine has emerged in the Rio Olympics – Hidilyn Diaz of...

THE Philippines has suddenly become part of the American election campaign with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump naming us as...

WHEN former President Fidel V. Ramos (FVR) leaves as a special envoy to China, it will be for a dialogue....

The 2016 Summer Olympics – officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad – are now well underway in Rio de...

FORMER Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed on June 29 an election protest with the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) against...

AFTER the government decides how it proposes to amend the Constitution – by Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) or by Constitutional Assembly...

THERE is a rising optimism among Filipinos in their views of both the quality of their own lives and the...

BY now, the nation must know the importance this administration attaches to the small people, poor people, in the way...

JUST when our prospects for peaceful relations in the South China Sea appeared to be at their lowest, sage advice...

THE last administration used to say that the Philippine agriculture has bright prospects in ASEAN economic integration, specifically with its...

OF the many issues ruled upon by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, two are of utmost...