Out in the Open by Ray S. Eñano
Disaster response wanting in Odette-ravaged regions
The Philippines does not learn from experience. Super Typhoon Odette struck northeastern Mindanao and the central Philippines in December leaving...
Agriculture, economy should dominate the political debate
As in any presidential elections, the economy should be at the heart of every political discourse. Millions of Filipinos look...
Hitches in mobile portability law emerge
The Mobile Number Portability Act has finally come of age to the benefit of millions of mobile phone users in...
Higher domestic yellow corn production to ease the plight of feed millers
Food security is the best protection against rising prices, especially in a pandemic era where shipping woes and supply bottlenecks...
Manila Water secures supply amid global drought, wildfires
Widespread drought and wildfires are depressing scenes that we often see on foreign television news now. Without doubt, these natural...
Tobacco companies sustain push into healthcare but gov’t keeps bias
Cigarette companies have seen the writing on the wall. The younger population comprising mainly of the Gen Z and millennial...
PH telecom sector making big strides amid the pandemic
The telecom sector in the Philippines is zooming just in the right time. From its fledgling state a few years...
Power outage issue being muddled
There is no complex explanation to the recent power outages that struck the Luzon grid. Those rotating brownouts simply reflect...
Bidding controversy leaves fate of Port of Calapan workers hanging
The government is trying its best to re-open the Philippine economy and restore millions of jobs lost during the current...
LA airport offers vexing gate option to PAL and Fil-Ams
Filipino-Americans in Los Angeles, California may soon experience an inconvenient trip right from the start when they begin their journey...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.