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

I have written at least eight columns on the outrageous flood control scams, the investigations, the apparent culprits, the laws applicable, and the personalities who could hasten the criminal ...

The story is told about a wife who lost her husband whom she loved so much. On the day of his burial, as a sign of her ...

I’ve learned and grown to like grief. I live with it; I don’t run from it anymore—terrified of the thought that it might come ...

The cost of living in the Philippines is high. And so is the cost of dying. This is why a new law providing free funeral services is a huge help for poor Filipino families whose grief is doubled by ...

To those left behind by the ones they loved, this is for us. It was an ordinary Sunday for me, until it wasn’t, because over ...

They were called “Bright Boys” when they both became congressmen for the first time in 1998. They were elected together as ...

I began living on my own at 16, not fully, perhaps, but far enough from home to feel it. Senior high school brought me to ...

In the pursuit of a half-a-trillion peso crime, the Independent Commission for Infrastructure’s (ICI) first set of timid ...

In a fine dining restaurant, my then 7-year-old nephew asked for iced tea. The waiter, in an indulgent tone, said that he ...

General Romeo Brawner Jr. PA, Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines Some places never leave you. They shape your ...

A lending company in the Philippines reported having financed over 1,000 air conditioners a day during peak summer in 2024, ...