At 2:22 a.m. on a Thursday, the Philippine Congress did what it does best: passed a multi-trillion-peso budget under the cover of darkness, declaring ...
On April 25, 2024, bureaucracy in Iloilo and the Philippines achieved a miracle of geography: it transformed water mangrove patches into farmland. Acc...
The political winds in the country are shifting with dizzying speed. In a spectacle that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, stalwarts o...
The statistic is cold and clinical: 103 pregnancies were recorded among 10- to 14-year-olds in Western Visayas in 2023, a 21% surge from 2019. But beh...
For decades, the Philippine economic roadmap was built on a single, confident assumption: the “demographic dividend.” We marketed ourselves to the wor...
Three years ago, the Philippines made a dangerous gamble. By passing Republic Act No. 11900—the “Vape Law”—legislators lowered the purchase age for e-...
We are witnessing a remastered version of the 1960s cigarette playbook, but this time, it is not playing out on billboards or television screens. It i...
Iloilo City is on the verge of a transparency breakthrough, but the path forward is paved with good intentions that could easily lead to a bureaucrati...
“Listen to the science.” It was the theme of Iloilo City’s first Multi-Hazard Scientific Conference on December 5, but for many in the well-attended h...