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Persistent poverty

The latest percentage of households rating themselves as Mahirap/Poor was 51, as of the end…

Land of beauty queens under siege

Scratch your head if this sounds like a forced oxymoronic juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated realities:…

Time for a new tourism secretary

Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco has come under fire in the past few days after…

Failure to ease inflation

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Tuesday that inflation, or the rate of increase…

The drug war bows to the law

Touted as an irresistible show of force, the drug war had shocked and awed Filipinos…

A corruption-free 2026 budget?

Anytime now, President Marcos is expected to sign into law the national budget for 2026,…

Let’s move on!

The story is told about a doctor, an engineer, and a lawyer who were debating…

A sluggish ending

From my reading of the fourth quarter statistics of Social Weather Stations (SWS), the ending…

Marcos’ New Year, 1970

Filipinos greet the New Year in many ways: some make noise, others light firecrackers, and…

The myth of the reset

My young nieces were looking up at a poster, asking me what it means. It…