Editorial
Covering up for the President
CONTRARY to its claim of transparency, the Aquino administration has used obfuscation, misdirection, rhetoric and even threats to shield an...
While the sun is out
More than one fifth of the 100 cities most at risk from natural hazards are located in the Philippines. In...
Why bans backfire
The logic is that if you want to generate unusual interest in something, you first have to prohibit its distribution....
Power outages
Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will not likely be spared by power outages starting this month, given the...
Grace under pressure
Once upon a time, Senator Grace Poe was dismissed as having no other qualification but the prominent last name of...
Legacy of failure
IN just a few months, President Benigno Aquino III will be delivering his last State-of-the-Nation Address. The yearly speech, mandated...
Scare tactics
WITH its peace plan fraying at the edges in the wake of the massacre of 44 police commandos at the...
Resilience in concrete terms
Francois Hollande, the president of France, came to the Philippines last week to see for himself the damage wrought by...
Who’s the enemy?
During Wednesday’s Edsa People Power Anniversary commemoration -- the same occasion that inspired outrage and frustration from motorists and commuters...
Decongesting Port of Manila
Traffic along the major routes leading to the Port of Manila will not get better unless the premier shipping gateway...
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.