Poverty in the country is projected to keep falling in the coming years as the economy creates more and better-paying jobs, though the decline is expected to ...

Achieving a peaceful and orderly situation in the Bicol region relies on eradicating extreme poverty, rather than solely on law enforcement and anti-crime operations, the newly-appointed chair of the ...

MANILA: As political turmoil continued to shake the Philippines in 2025, Imee Marcos, chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, described the year as "traumatic" and "dramatic" in a recent ...

After being lectured upon, shamed and ordered, unanimously, by the Supreme Court to return, asap, the P60 billion hijacked by his Cabinet people from cash-starved PhilHealth to boost the General ...

ADB has approved a $15 million financing package to strengthen the banking and capital markets and enhance financial ...

On the other hand, another reader, Fe Obana, who identified herself as a concerned senior citizen, warned against privatization, saying that businessmen are profit-driven and would always opt out when ...

From Sri Lanka’s central highlands to Indonesia’s flood-swollen river basins, a wave of climate-fuelled cyclones and monsoon ...

Operation Containment in Rio’s favelas, particularly Complexo do Alemão and Penha, led to at least 121 deaths—many allegedly ...

Taken together, these stories show that independence is not a guarantee of stability or prosperity. It is simply the beginning of a new chapter, one shaped by leadership, resources, geography, global ...

Around the world, governments are quietly deleting, manipulating, or withholding public data at an unprecedented scale, which ...

While disasters of this magnitude are not frequent, flash floods and landslides have become recurring events. Reports confirm ...