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Portrait of Aldin Jacinto Ali

Aldin Jacinto Ali

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Before the convoy arrives

Before the convoy arrives

This broader reality provides useful context for the recent earthquake that struck Mindanao and the response that followed.

Sen. Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aquino IV

Productive force

For generations, college has represented both an opportunity and a sacrifice for families determined to secure a better future for their children.

Amanah and service

Amanah and service

On paper, Rotary is a service organization. In practice, it is a table where people who might never have otherwise met discover that they care about many of…

Beyond state visit

Beyond state visit

Since energy security was on the agenda of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s state visit to Japan, one meaningful next phase may be the transfer of knowledge…

Amanah and the Republic

Amanah and the Republic

A republic is not governed in theory alone. In our part of the world, imagine it as a balangay: a vessel crossing uncertain waters where every pair of hands…

Home is not one place

Home is not one place

Some places need not raise you completely to remain part and parcel of your being. Some belong to you because blood, stories, and longing keep pointing there.

A summit, a boat and a household

A summit, a boat and a household

The future should not be entered through shortcuts, confusing promises, or workmanship that disappears after the sale. It must be safe, understandable, fair…

What we hope they keep learning

What we hope they keep learning

Education does not merely fill the mind with lessons. It forms in us the capacity to recognize what is good, what is worthy of respect, and what can be…

Pope Leo‘s mosque visit

Pope Leo‘s mosque visit

Our national story has long included difficult, imperfect, but real attempts to live across religious differences without reducing one another to caricature.

When a visit becomes a mirror

When a visit becomes a mirror

Filipinos do not lack talent. We never did. What we have too often lacked is the institutional seriousness to match the gifts of our people.