Climate change in the year of Duterte
In his State of the Nation Address this year, President Duterte seemingly put importance on environmental issues, mentioning climate change, mining, adaptation, and disasters in...
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Who’s responsible for cleaning up the planet?
Over the years, the Philippines has become a strong voice at the annual Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change....
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Secretary Cusi is stuck in the past
Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi appears stuck in the past, with his insistence on using fossil fuels which literally comes from the dinosaur era, and in...
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Fear and hope: Climate change and a Trump presidency
Donald Trump has officially become the 45th president of the United States of America, a win that has sent some shock and worry for environmentalists...
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Breaking free from coal
The government appears to ignore the growing clamor to end the use of coal in the Philippines. It continues to justify coal investments to the...
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Oil firms gave consumers a hefty price rollback of as much as P3 per liter effective 6 a.m. Tuesday to...
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Malacañang reiterated Monday that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will not raise the issue of World War II sexual slavery victims...
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Beijing confirmed on Monday a balloon spotted flying over Latin America is Chinese, while the United States worked to recover...
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The Bureau of Corrections on Monday asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute its suspended chief Gerald Bantag for...
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday assured the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) that the government would continue to...
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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.