RECORD millions of Filipinos are going hungry, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) recently reported. Because of poverty, more and more Filipino families are now subsisting on only one real meal a day. While some government officials have disputed SWS's...

WOMEN are also bearing the brunt of the rampant political killings under the Arroyo administration, according to the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR), whose own count has documented 78 women victims of extra-judicial executions since Gloria...

IT might just be a merry Christmas after all. In its latest survey, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) reported that three out of five Filipinos expect a happy Christmas this year. Mindanao appear to be the most optimistic (70 percent), followed by...

BEFORE she entered politics, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was an economics professor. When she became a public servant, her earliest government posts were at the trade and industry department. It was then expected that once she became the country's chief...

MORE Filipino families are going hungry, according to the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) which saw the proportion of those experiencing “involuntary hunger” reach a new record-high of 19 percent in November. This means that an...

EVERY crisis necessarily poses a threat (or threats), but it can also offer opportunities. Or so says political analyst and elections expert Ramon Casiple about the political crisis now being faced by the presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. At any...

IS Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo singing a different tune on Charter change? Or does it sound more like a tired, old refrain? In the face of public outrage over the House majority's railroading of a resolution calling for the convening of a constituent...