Since December last year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has been announcing measures to address the stubbornly high ...

There is a touching viral video of a frail woman in a wheelchair who is gracefully moving her hands to Tchaikovsky’s “Swan ...

In my last four columns, I wrote about rejuvenating humans via stem cell therapy. Let me now discuss the rejuvenation of my ...

I’d have a nosebleed when I go back home today.” I was taken aback when our tour guide, Remy, made this off-the-cuff remark at the start of our much-awaited Batanes sojourn. Our family of ...

The Philippines enters this new year fully cognizant of the numerous and multifaceted threats that it faces, both within its territory and as part of the Indo-Pacific region. If we are to look at the ...

In studying economics, we are taught about scarcity—our time, energy, and basically, all financial and nonfinancial resources are not infinite. We sacrifice opportunity costs, typically the ...

As he bows before his landlord, the Malay peasant bends so low that he quietly passes foul gas in his master’s presence. Thus, the anthropologist James C. Scott opens his seminal book “Weapons of ...

In every wedding mass, just before the final blessing, I usually surprise the couple with the question: “So, who is going to ...

The government collected millions of pesos in fines from seatbelt violators last year—proof, per the Land Transportation Office (LTO), that it was strictly implementing the law. Indeed, P179.9 ...

The Romans named the first month of the year after Janus, the mythological god of doors and gates, who had the distinct ...

I had no advance hint of last Thursday’s Inquirer headline, “SWS: Self-Rated Poverty at 63%, highest since ’03” (Inquirer.net ...

The film, “Green Bones,” won big at the 50th Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) last December, hoarding six major awards, ...