A bill that seeks to institutionalize the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations (AICS), an aid program for families ...

Sen. Jinggoy Estrada has filed a bill seeking to extend the estate tax amnesty until June 2028 to give Filipino families more ...

Year 3 of beauty and social media entrepreneurship program targets 10,000 Filipinos uplifted through beauty and digital ...

The study finds that tablet-based computer-assisted instruction significantly improved math learning in remote Philippine ...

UNEA-7 must unite for ambitious multilateral action to tackle climate, biodiversity loss, and pollution, delivering ...

By Knut OstbyResident Representative ad interim,and Mohamed Shahudh,Economist Recent events in the Philippines illustrate ...

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PIA) — The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) held a meeting on Nov. 20 to establish a Regional Technical Working Group (TWG) aimed at coordinating poverty reduction programs ...

How we understand and measure poverty has evolved. From early income-based definitions, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s “capability approach” in the 1980s broadened the concept, viewing poverty not just ...

The earthquake killed at least 69 people, including residents of a village of “disaster-resilient homes” built for people who survived Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. By Aie Balagtas See and Jason ...

ABSTRACT: This paper argues that Mahayana Buddhist ethics, particularly the concept of “compassionate violence,” can be used to justify revolutionary violence against oppressive political and economic ...

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police arrested 49 people suspected of hurling rocks, bottles and fire bombs at officers and blocking heavily guarded roads and bridges leading to the presidential ...

Protesters take part in a rally as they demonstrate against corruption following the revelations over bogus flood control projects, one of the country's biggest corruption scandals in decades, at the ...