If corruption is a disease,” former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said once, “then transparency is a central ...

When we buy a shirt, use a mobile phone, or sip a cup of coffee, how often do we think about the people who made them possible? In Asia and the Pacific, close to half a billion workers, whether in ...

Filipinos are outraged today over billions of their tax money going into private pockets of corrupt government officersand casinos. They are furious and if allowed, they would throw these flamboyant ...

While everyone is preoccupied with reports about the shameful extent of corruption in the public works and highways sector, only a few have paid attention to the corruption that has been seeping into ...

Another anti-corruption commission has been born. President Marcos has announced the creation of the Independent Commission on Infrastructure (ICI) to probe anomalies in one of the Philippines’ ...

Vancouver—The past week was intense and illuminating. Thanks to the support of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, which invited me as its inaugural Southeast Asian “visiting scholar,” I had ...

What a month it’s been, with people asking me about the day of the Hungry Ghosts (which fell this year on Sept. 6). This year, too, I have gotten more inquiries about whether more Chinese are ...

It’s bad enough that our deeply flawed education system and the weak cognitive abilities of our children due to poor nutrition have placed us at the bottom in global education assessments. Now we ...

Aug. 26, 2013, was a holiday, but my friends and I had been awake and texting each other since 6 a.m. We had plans to join a ...

An octogenarian had a series of coughing fits that caught my sibling’s attention and the people in the restaurant. Thankfully ...

The revelations of Curlee and Sarah Discaya and several officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) ...

As a girl in her early 20s, I once decided to put myself out there. The pandemic had robbed most of my generation of our last few years of university. I felt like I was running out of time to make ...