WOMEN are often at the forefront of environmental movements so it’s ironic that only a few of them seem aware that a product they buy month after month is hardly eco-friendly. Indeed, environmentalists say that used sanitary napkins are now among the...

A FEW coins less than the price of four tall mugs of coffee from your favorite coffee shop, or P278.76 per day, is the amount a family of six needs to meet its basic needs to survive in Metro Manila these days, according to the Center for Women's...

THE recent arrest under strange circumstances of Jose Maria "Joma" Sison by Dutch authorities on charges that he allegedly ordered the killing of two former comrades is only the latest twist in the continuing saga of the fractured Left in the...

FACILITIES currently being constructed across Mindanao for American soldiers are not permanent military bases, insists an official of the U.S. Embassy in reaction to a report about the existence of an American base construction unit providing...

IN line with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's order to launch a "humanitarian offensive" in Basilan and Sulu, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has recently created the National Development Command (NDC) -- a move that has drawn mixed reactions...

FILIPINOS here and abroad know ‘TNT’ to mean tago nang tago (always in hiding), a reference to compatriots living overseas without the proper papers. These days, however, TNT can also mean tatay na tatay, since it seems many Filipino fathers abroad...

THERE are no legal obstacles to the reopening of a Senate investigation on the "Hello, Garci" tapes. University of the Philippines law professor Harry Roque Jr. made this assertion in response to the concerns raised by some senators about conducting an...