Collective grief
"Many are heartbroken, frustrated, and angry." If the partial and unofficial election results are true, where is the jubilation from the more than 30 million...
Read more"Many are heartbroken, frustrated, and angry." If the partial and unofficial election results are true, where is the jubilation from the more than 30 million...
Read moreOn Monday, May 9, Filipino voters will troop to the polls to determine the country’s direction for at least the next six years. Will we...
Read more"We will again be proud as Filipinos." Will the country be in a better situation in the next years? Our vote will determine this, assuming...
Read moreAs the elections draw near, we are witnessing more telling signs of how the leading presidential candidates Marcos Jr., Vice President Leni Robredo, and Manila...
Read more"Yes, we are very—too—invested in this campaign." Why are Vice-President Leni Robredo’s volunteers invested in the coming elections? The kind of commitment and enthusiasm shown...
Read more"No one else will do." Only 40-plus more days before the general elections on May 9 and for national position candidates, it’s crunch time. For...
Read more"These are their stories." Last week I wrote about two remarkable community women leaders who have been with my organization, the Democratic Socialist Women of...
Read more"Let me pay tribute to them." My organization, the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines (DSWP) celebrated its 35th anniversary last March 8, coinciding with...
Read more"This makes me proud." Yearly, March 8 is celebrated as the International Women’s Day (IWD). In the Philippines, the whole month of March is Women’s...
Read more"People will wake up and see the truth." Thirty-six years ago, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. and his family were booted out of Malacañang when...
Read moreSouth Korea's Asiana Airlines has stopped selling some emergency seats following an accident in which a passenger opened an emergency...
Read moreSaber Zouani lost his job as a waiter when the Covid pandemic ravaged the Tunisian tourism sector, so he decided...
Read moreOil-dependent Iraq has been warned its economy risks going into "intensive care" unless it diversifies in line with worldwide efforts...
Read moreWhen Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa first climbed Everest 70 years ago, they paved the way for thousands of...
Read moreUS President Joe Biden and Republican congressional leader Kevin McCarthy spoke Saturday, a source familiar with the talks said, as...
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