Why can’t Monday lift up Saturday?” Answer: “Because Monday is a week day.” ---------------- Today is the Feast of the Holy ...

So much for the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s (MMDA) repeated assurances that it has been actively working on various infrastructure projects to address the metro’s perennial flood ...

Travel has many purposes. The travel writer Rick Steves categorizes travelers into three broad types. First, there’s the tourist, who seeks the excitement of shopping, sightseeing, and snapping ...

Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day. Gone was the ...

Good things come in threes, with recent government initiatives seemingly tripling the glad tidings of the season. Early this ...

Fourth Quarter 2024 Social Weather Survey: 65 percent of adult Filipinos expect a happy Christmas, down from 73 percent in ...

What does it taste like? I asked my Tito one sunny morning as I watched him sip from a small cup of steaming black liquid. He was sitting on the wooden bench in our kitchen, quietly enjoying the ...

I write this year-end column with the cadence of the soft drizzle of rain, and while the world outside is going crazy because ...

By the time you’re reading this, Christmas Day has come and gone. Some of you may have had a whirlwind social calendar of ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. is making headway on his promise to rid the farm sector of scalawags. He ...

Mary Jane Veloso’s return to the Philippines after 14 years of imprisonment in Indonesia is a historic occasion for many Filipinos. As a society that embraces “kapwa”—a core value reflecting a ...

The chilly breeze that arrived last weekend signified the last stretch of what is considered the longest Christmas season in ...