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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

According to an online blurb, the term “delicadeza” is a “Filipino word that means having good manners, respect, and a sense of what is right and wrong.” It means being honest, humble, and ...

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

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 ...