In precolonial Philippines, the male datu served as the secular head of the community, but the female babaylan was revered as ...

I have written at least eight columns on the outrageous flood control scams, the investigations, the apparent culprits, the laws applicable, and the personalities who could hasten the criminal ...

Small-scale fisherfolk, lodged among the poorest in society, are pleading with lawmakers to tackle a bill seeking to restore their exclusive rights to fishing grounds nearer the shore, or where they ...

My childhood mornings in Isabela began with the cry of roosters. For most people, it was just countryside background noise, the alarm clock that crowed too early. For me, it was family business. My ...

The story is told about a wife who lost her husband whom she loved so much. On the day of his burial, as a sign of her ...

In Tibetan Buddhism, bardo refers to the in-between state after death and before rebirth. It is a time when consciousness is less fixed, open to both change and confusion. A being may linger there for ...

I’ve learned and grown to like grief. I live with it; I don’t run from it anymore—terrified of the thought that it might come ...

The cost of living in the Philippines is high. And so is the cost of dying. This is why a new law providing free funeral services is a huge help for poor Filipino families whose grief is doubled by ...

To those left behind by the ones they loved, this is for us. It was an ordinary Sunday for me, until it wasn’t, because over ...

I began living on my own at 16, not fully, perhaps, but far enough from home to feel it. Senior high school brought me to ...

They were called “Bright Boys” when they both became congressmen for the first time in 1998. They were elected together as ...

There’s a Phil Connors in each one of us. That disenchanted, weary, and self-absorbed version of ourselves who, at some point, has felt hemmed in by the daily grind. In the movie "Groundhog ...