If we can say “COVID is still here,” then what of tuberculosis (TB), which has been around since time immemorial and has ...

Earlier this month, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) expressed concern over what it said was the alarming increase in the number of barangay officials killed this year ahead of the midterm ...

The Philippine national hunger problem would not be as hard to manage if there were not as many as 28 million families—the family, not the individual, is the Social Weather Stations hunger unit—to ...

Many problems keep the ordinary Filipino up at night. A recent Pulse Asia survey commissioned by the Stratbase Institute said seven in 10 Filipinos are deeply concerned with the escalating inflation ...

The Inquirer editorial “Are we ready for global boiling?” (7/30/23) calls urgent attention to the impact of the increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves on people’s health, water ...

Per Civil Service Commission (CSC) data in June 2023, there are about 1.97 million government personnel in career and noncareer positions and more than 832,000 were hired as contractual or job-order ...

I was once asked, informally, to comment on a long table of Philippine hardwood that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas wants to ...

Rene A.V. Saguisag, human rights lawyer, former senator, writer, public servant, staunch advocate for social welfare and ...

What was earlier billed as the biggest seizure of illegal drugs by the Philippine National Police turned out to be less ...

So many interesting stories happen in the neighborhood. One day you share food, some days, you bicker over house noise or ...