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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Ex-prisoners were the students’ special guests at a recent Ateneo event. They were members of a program under the Philippine ...

My mother, a person with disability, retired in 2024 at the age of 65, after years of being the municipal budget officer in Ilocos Sur. She’s a registered PWD, and according to Republic Act No.

Filipinos who have traveled to Japan or Singapore often return with the same bewildered admiration. A wallet left behind on a ...

Technical vocational education and training, under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), rests on a robust quality-assurance system—the Compliance Audit, System for TVET ...

In the pursuit of a half-a-trillion peso crime, the Independent Commission for Infrastructure’s (ICI) first set of timid ...