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

Independent Commission for Infrastructure chair Andres Reyes Jr. yesterday asked the Ombudsman to investigate Department of ...

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 ...

Dear Sen. Joel Villanueva, I recently came across a short video from last year of you and Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla joyously chanting each other’s school cheer—you singing “Unibersidad ...

Looking back, it is almost unbelievable how our friendship began—not in a bustling coffee shop, on a work platform, in a classroom, or during a night out, but in little squares on a screen, pixels ...

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 ...

The takeaway from last week’s brief outbreak of violence in Tipo-Tipo town in Basilan province is how fragile peace remains ...

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

In precolonial Philippines, the male datu served as the secular head of the community, but the female babaylan was revered as ...

Solo globe-trotting can be addictive. I spent my first 15 years in our coastal town, Palompon, in northern Leyte. As a child, the only means of transportation I experienced were a jeepney ride with my ...

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 ...