Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Editors' Pick

Poverty Forced Children To Work

LIFE in the Philippines is not getting any better — and kids as young as five years old must have realized that working is the only way they could survive. Based on data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the number of working children, aged five to 17 years old, has been increasing on an annual basis. According to the PSA, the estimated number of working children stood at a staggering 868,540 in 2025, surpassing 861,450 working kids recorded in...
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FOR THE LONGEST time, Filipinos have managed to bounce back from all forms of adversities. More than resiliency, the...
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THE MATRIARCH BEHIND one of the most entrenched business empires in the country may have been forced to bow...
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IN A MOMENT OF QUIET triumph resonating far beyond the halls of Buckingham Palace, Filipino education leader Edison David...
WHEN RHODORA Alcaraz Tunacao finally set foot on Philippine soil, it was not just a homecoming — it was...
CONSIDERING THE huge financial and operational burdens of PrimeWater, a company owned by the Villar Group but has been...
FEW TOWNS IN the Philippines possess a cultural identity as vivid, as storied, and as proudly preserved as Angono,...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and robots might not take over the world after all, because one finite resource essential to their...
FOR THE LONGEST time, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) have kept the Philippine economy afloat, sending home billions in remittances...
FOR THE LONGEST time, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has been notoriously famous for corruption, but not under...
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