Editorial

Christmas time, declared as the most wonderful time of the year, is also the time when roads become the areas for testing courtesy, patience, and most important of all, safety. Traffic around Metro Manila and major cities around the country have become denser, slower and more exasperating.  The season brings …

It is disconcerting that, even in this modern era, violence and harassment persist in the workplace, particularly affecting migrant workers who are often left helpless and lack legal protection. Recognizing this ongoing worldwide challenge, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has established new global standards aimed at ending violence and harassment …

“A problem with plucking the award’s fruit of peace lies with China, which has stubbornly refused to honor the ruling and declared it illegal despite being a UNCLOS signatory. The long-sought peaceful resolution to the West Philippine Sea dispute is already available to the contending claimants through the 2016 United …

“The negotiating table, however, is bereft of goodwill. With China’s pigheaded insistence on its expansive claim to the West Philippine Sea, or WPS, the administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has turned to global opinion to aid against the increasing aggressiveness of Beijing’s gray zone tactics. The belligerence is …

With both houses of Congress having ratified the ₱5.768-trillion national budget for 2024, it now only needs the signature of President Marcos to become a law. The House of Representatives ratified the proposed 2024 budget — the largest in the country’s history — Monday night, while the 24-man Senate did …

It doesn’t take a scientist to conclude that we live in one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Stronger rains, more intense floods, longer dry spells have significantly impacted our archipelagic nation, especially our coastal communities and agricultural sector, resulting in the loss of lives and billions of …

The government should stop pandering to these small, noisy groups because the safety and convenience of millions of commuters are at stake. Jeepney drivers and operators are again threatening to hold a strike, this time on 14 and 15 December. The new transport holiday would come just weeks after their …

A tradeoff for a base build-up, however, would be inviting reprisals from an increasingly assertive China. China had advanced into a new phase in its gray zone tactic in the West Philippine Sea with the deployment of long-range acoustic devices, or LRAD, which are used in crowd control. The utilization …

Led by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the Philippines joined in the worldwide observance of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and mounted the National Human Rights Consciousness Week on Dec.4-10. Truly, raising human rights consciousness must be carried on every day to ensure attainment …

We teach our children to follow the rules and to play fairly, and yet we do not apply the same standards to ourselves. Anyone who has ever navigated the primary artery of Metro Manila — Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue, or EDSA — knows that the throbbing ribbon of concrete pulsates …