Two bills giving additional privileges to senior citizens were recently in the news: one ensures access to employment and the other exempts them from paying income taxes. House Bill No. 10985 or the ...

Budgetary allocations for select government offices, commonly termed “intelligence” and “confidential” funds, are typically exempt from standard auditing procedures in order to preserve the ...

The story is told about a mouse who told the lion, the king of the jungle: “O, Lion King, I am about to get married. What advice can you give me?“ The Lion replied: “Mr. Mouse, just remember, that ...

Is it futile to pursue the causes we believe in when our dreams seem too elusive? I have been a campus journalist for more than five years now. I have spearheaded two student ...

The University of Santo Tomas Alumni Association, Inc. (USTAAI) launched “Project First 1,000 Days” during its masquerade ball dubbed as “La Tomasina Baile De Mascaras” on Oct. 26 at the ...

As a regular reader mainly of your Opinion columns, I was intrigued by the opinions of the following columnists—Richard Heydarian, former chief justice Artemio Panganiban, Michael Lim Ubac, and Randy ...

Now that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has called former president Rodrigo Duterte’s bluff to file cases against him, an invested public eagerly looks forward to how he would squirm his way out of ...

On the surface, the biggest stumbling block to the ongoing climate talks at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan is the fact that negotiators remain a trillion dollars a year apart in climate finance. The ...

The recent 2024 Miss Universe beauty pageant in Mexico is a huge ocean away from where the South Sea pearls in the crown of ...

As I write this, almost 200 nations are meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss how to address the perils of climate change. While there are early signs of positive movement, the 29th edition of the ...

It’s just about four weeks until Christmas Day, yet I’m still waiting for that familiar festive spark to lighten the atmosphere and brighten the collective mood. Weeks ago, I mentioned how the ...