Disasters in Mindanao are rarely, if ever, pure acts of nature. They unfold across a compound hazard landscape where climate events intersect with armed conflict, clan feuds (rido), and large-scale…
October 5 is International Day of No Prostitution. There is a growing effort to frame commercial sex as merely "sex work"—an economic choice and a matter of labor rights. Proponents…
For Medicine Week of the Philippine Medical Association — Metropolitan Davao Medical Society DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Today, Sept. 20, the medical doctors will have the wreath-laying before the monument of Dr.…
The recent remarks of the central bank governor, criticizing Filipinos for a supposed “consumption culture,” expose the persistence of “matapobre” attitudes and structural classism in Philippine economic governance. By framing…
Today, September 1, 2026, dynamic teams of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and allied healthcare professionals across the Philippines are stepping into operating rooms for a singular purpose: to deliver life-saving, free…