INFORMATION technology professionals have once more enlisted the Internet for an online campaign to call for the resignation of officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) involved in the poll body's failed and anomalous election modernization...

LAST December 26 marked the first year since the deadly earthquake that triggered catastrophic tsunamis in several parts of Asia. Worst hit was Aceh in Indonesia which was close to the 9.0-magnitude quake's epicenter at the northern tip of Sumatra. ...

A FEW days after Christmas last year, I visited the soup kitchen at the Quiapo Church. I braced myself for a trip down the depths of human misery and hopelessness. I skipped breakfast, feeling guilty about having to interview the hungry on a full...

WILL this Christmas be merry and bright? Fewer Filipinos feel so, with only 62 percent expecting a happy Christmas—a sharp fall from the 82 percent who had similar expectations in 2002, 77 percent in 2003 and 64 percent last year, according to...

THE report of the Consultative Commission tasked by Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to study and propose amendments to the 1987 Constitution continues to generate a lot of flak, this time among non-governmental organizations that are similarly pushing for...

ASSOCIATE Justice Artemio Panganiban was named as the new Supreme Court Chief Justice by the President last night. Panganiban said he sees his appointment as "an opportunity to be of even greater service to God and country" and pledged to...

A SURVEY of global freedom released a couple of days ago has noted a decline in the state of freedom in the Philippines, resulting in a downgrade from "Free" to "Partly Free" status for the country, even as substantial improvement has been observed...