Being a nerd has its rewards. When I am in an archive, a library, or a museum with materials from or about the Philippines, I feel like a child in a candy store. Despite the stress and jet lag that ...

United States President Donald Trump marked his whirlwind trip to Malaysia for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) leaders’ summit with the signing of trade agreements with Malaysia ...

In most parliaments around the world, “disorderly behavior” is a narrow concept. It refers to acts that disturb proceedings—shouting, defying the presiding officer, using offensive language, or ...

Looking back, it is almost unbelievable how our friendship began—not in a bustling coffee shop, on a work platform, in a ...

I recently overheard students talking about foreign language classes, a requirement at the Ateneo de Manila University. One ...

On October 25, 2025, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed Executive Order No. 100, prescribing a floor price for palay ...

Last May, the Philippine peso began to part ways with the currencies of our comparable neighbors. Normally, our currency ...

The nation again stands at a dangerous crossroads. Billions meant to keep floods at bay were instead washed away by greed. As rivers rise, so does the anger of a people who have seen this movie too ...

Oxford–”The food scene in [the Philippines] is really vibrant with local specialties that are different from one city to another,” the former French Ambassador to Manila, Michèle Boccoz, told ...

I was educated in Catholic schools most of my life, all the way up to my sophomore year in college, and had my fair share of classes in catechism, Old and New Testament, encyclicals. I even served ...

The message of President Ferdinand ’Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. during a media briefing in Kuala Lumpur merits close attention. He said, “We have to remind people that we have now moved from the ...