CUARESMA, or Holy Week is the time when Filipinos reflect on the agony of Jesus Christ. It is also the time when the mamumugon – the workers in the vast haciendasor plantations of Negros Occidental – slip into a suspended state between life and...

ON MONDAY, the Bangsamoro Transition Commission submitted to Malacanang the draft Basic Law that would create a new political entity that would take the place of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). The envisioned Bangsamoro is the latest,...

TODAY'S DATA A DAY question would appear to be a no-brainer. The operative phrase, of course, is "would appear." Anyone interested in visiting the offices of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) must go to the ORG complex in Cotabato...

by Ryan D. Rosauro photo from Indonesian Parliament website JAKARTA—Indonesians troop to the polls Wednesday to elect members of the national and local parliaments, an exercise that is widely expected to shape the upcoming presidential...

THE NAYSAYERS said they couldn't do it, but in the end, the women negotiators in the peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) showed that they had what some of their male counterparts didn't - grace and...

NO ONE likes spam, unless it comes from a can. That being said, spamming, or the transmission of unsolicited commercial communications, was included in the list of offenses in Republic Act 10175, or the Cybercrime Prevention Act. However, the...

THESE DAYS, people take the internet for granted. People grump when they can't download their movies fast enough (yes, many of you still do that!), or if they can only get 3G on their phones, and not HSDPA or LTE. But time was when a 64 kbps connection...