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The Gokongweis’ legacy: Investing in Filipino students

by Iris Gonzales - May 20, 2025 - 12:00am

The recent midterm elections had many of us pleasantly surprised that young voters emerged as the game changers.

JTI factory gears up for stronger demand

by Iris Gonzales - May 18, 2025 - 12:00am

An hour’s flight from Stockholm, this quiet, idyllic town lies in Västra Götaland county on Sweden’s western coast.

When dynasties (slowly) crumble

by Iris Gonzales - May 15, 2025 - 12:00am

It seemed straight out of a teleserye, a plot twist one might see only on local prime time TV or while watching an edge-of-your-seat Netflix drama.

High stakes

by Iris Gonzales - May 13, 2025 - 12:00am

Now we wait with bated breath, anxiety levels are through the roof.

Notes on the elections

by Iris Gonzales - May 11, 2025 - 12:00am

Tomorrow, the 12th of May, the campaign circus comes to an end, and the real thing begins.

Robina on recent kidnappings, retirement

by Iris Gonzales - May 8, 2025 - 12:00am

Outside the Gokongwei Group and the UP Fighting Maroons, tycoon and sports patron Robina Gokongwei is famously synonymous with two enduring tales that refuse to die – one a cult urban legend, the other a real-life...

Tragic

by Iris Gonzales - May 6, 2025 - 12:00am

A father has lost his daughter in yet another tragedy that came like a thief in the night – on a quiet Sunday morning.

Press freedom

by Iris Gonzales - May 4, 2025 - 12:00am

May 3, World Press Freedom Day, is always bittersweet for journalists, but more so now with the spread of fake news and the continued attacks on journalism.

Labor Day, OFWs, Camille Villar’s pitch

by Iris Gonzales - May 1, 2025 - 12:00am

They will march today – our tireless laborers – as they do every year, out on the streets under the scorching summer heat.

Headwinds at the airport

by Iris Gonzales - April 29, 2025 - 12:00am

Critics of the country’s main gateway or the San Miguel Corp.-led consortium now managing its operations may not agree, but there have been noticeable changes at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport –...

Bullying: A national emergency

by Iris Gonzales - April 27, 2025 - 12:00am

The edge-of-your-seat Netflix drama “Adolescence” has put the spotlight on issues that a young person may face as an adolescent. One of the themes tackled in the series is bullying.

‘Scandalous inequality’

by Iris Gonzales - April 24, 2025 - 12:00am

In a world that is moving and turning at dizzying speed – and increasingly backward and rightward – Pope Francis had been that rare moral titan, unafraid to say the things that must be said.

From black magic to blackouts

by Iris Gonzales - April 22, 2025 - 12:00am

Maundy Thursday night, riding a tricycle down Mt. Bandilaan – home to Siquijor’s famed healers – I looked back and gasped. The mountain behind us had disappeared into a pitch-black curtain, with...

What’s happening to Alyansa?

by Iris Gonzales - April 20, 2025 - 12:00am

That was a welcome pause – Maundy Thursday and Good Friday – from the dizzying political circus, which has become as scorching as the sweltering summer heat.

‘Strange Fruit’

by Iris Gonzales - April 17, 2025 - 12:00am

There’s no lack of rituals in this nation of 120 million as Filipinos observe Holy Week.

Red light, green light

by Iris Gonzales - April 15, 2025 - 12:00am

The Trump administration announced yet another surprising trade policy pivot, this time a sweeping tariff exemption on key tech imports.

From Clark to Suzuka

by Iris Gonzales - April 13, 2025 - 12:00am

Engines roaring to life. The smell of burning tires wafting through the air. Cars hurtling at dizzying speeds. Fans jumping and thumping in wild surrender. And then – the deafening sound of it all.

Kidnappings, scams, gambling

by Iris Gonzales - April 10, 2025 - 12:00am

First, it was a Chinese teenager who was kidnapped and whose finger was chopped off; the family driver was found dead, murdered in cold blood the day after the student went missing; police eventually found the victim...

Tough love

by Iris Gonzales - April 8, 2025 - 12:00am

US President Donald Trump’s tariffs or what he calls “tough love,” which he announced from the Rose Garden, are already creating waves of panic.

‘A light has gone out in Mindanao’

by Iris Gonzales - April 6, 2025 - 12:00am

I’ve read her work long before I even met her, in awe of the stories she told from faraway Zamboanga and Tawi-Tawi – tales of love and war, life and death, conflict and peace and, in between, the daily...

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