Every year, on or about Sept. 1, something unmistakable happens in the Philippines. Radios dare to play the first Christmas ...

Filipino families were poor in 2023. A family is classified as poor when it earns less than a defined threshold income ...

Taipei—Back in late 2024, former Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio and I publicly revealed our foreknowledge of the potential arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte under the aegis ...

Secretary Vince Dizon announced an urgent recruitment drive for engineers and accountants to fill approximately 2,000 vacant ...

The horror that unfolded on Dec. 14 at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, where 15 people were killed during what should have been a peaceful Hanukkah celebration, has cast a long and terrifying shadow beyond ...

The last quarter of the year is supposed to bring smiles and material sources of happiness for many Filipinos and other people in different parts of the world who celebrate the Christmas season.

IMG_0510. In Metro Manila, movement is governed by delay. Last week, amid the December rush, I crossed the city by motorcycle ...

One of the things that never fails to lift anyone’s spirits is taking unexpected breaks from the usual routine and touching ...

In 2006, I had been living in Mexico as part of a yearlong youth missionary program. The original plan was to stay at the ...

Families in Bairan in Naga City, Cebu put up electric-powered decorations like parols — star-shaped Christmas lanterns — for ...

The Senate approved last week a bill putting the national budget process on a digital platform in an effort to promote ...