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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The best way to understand the findings of social surveys is to look up the exact questions addressed to the survey respondents. Wordings of survey questions might not be reported by the mass media, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Education (DepEd) declared that we have already lost 38 school days barely halfway into the school year due ...

The rapid progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has captivated individuals, companies, and governments, ...

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 ...