Youth comprises majority of 1.6M new voters: Comelec

MANILA – The majority of those who applied as new voters are youth aged 15 to 30 years old, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said during the...

BOC seizes P18-M smuggled onions in Zamboanga City

MANILA – The Bureau of Customs (BOC) – Port of Zamboanga (POZ) has seized PHP18.6 million worth of smuggled onions in a vessel in Zamboanga City last...

Ukraine war: attitudes to women in the military are changing as thousands serve on front lines

Thousands of women have voluntarily joined Ukraine’s armed forces since 2014, when Russia’s occupation of Crimea and territories in eastern Ukraine began. Over the past nine...

DSWD gets P151B in 2023 for social protection programs

MANILA – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has received over PHP151 billion under the 2023 General Appropriations Act (GAA) for its social protection programs,...

Climate change is already putting the heat on insurance companies – Auckland’s floods could be a turning poin

The clean-up from Auckland’s devastating floods last week is just beginning but insurance companies will need to start thinking about what the record-breaking weather event will...

Black police officers aren’t colorblind – they’re infected by the same anti-Black bias as American society and police in general

Once again, Americans are left reeling from the horror of video footage showing police brutalizing an unarmed Black man who later died. Some details in the...

What the Free Alberta Strategy gets wrong about Canada’s banking system

What is the Free Alberta Strategy, the co-creation of two lawyers and a Calgary political scientist? And with a provincial election on the horizon this spring...

Publicly owned land should be used for affordable housing, not sold to private developers

On Jan. 25, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to “ensure” affordable housing is built along Hamilton’s light rail transit (LRT) route. While this is welcome news,...

How companies can improve the retention of employees returning from abroad

Multinational enterprises are currently facing a serious challenge. These organizations are companies with multiple locations or operations around the world. They often send employees abroad on...

Unlike with academics and reporters, you can’t check when ChatGPT’s telling the truth