Iris Gonzales

Cebu, despite its legendary traffic, is a province I enjoy visiting every single time. Perhaps it's because it's my mother's hometown, where the spirit of my ancestors always makes me feel at home.

The singular Manuel V. Pangilinan has built a sprawling empire whose businesses intertwine with the lives of every Filipino.

Will the much-talked-about and highly anticipated white knight for ABS-CBN, in true chivalric tradition, arrive soon enough to save the media giant from its financial troubles?

There’s no other way to describe what China Daily did when it depicted us Filipinos as monkeys. It is what it is – racist and uncalled for.

Everyone is watching with bated breath the upcoming bidding for the contract to operate the sprawling Semirara coal mine in Antique, which will likely happen this month, Energy Secretary Sharon Garin said.

I hope Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto runs for the Senate next year.

In this era of misinformation and disinformation, untruths and half-truths and outright fake news, the challenge is no longer gathering information – it is discerning what is true.

When Thel Abiera was a young boy of around six or seven years old, his grandmother, who was suffering from an ailment affecting her cervix, taught him to caress her lower back while dabbing it with an ointment she concocted herself – manzanilla or chamomile-infused oil and camphor-based alcamporado.

President Marcos' populist promise to remove the system loss charge is facing severe backlash, given the complexity of the problem.

At a small food kiosk near our place, I had a chance to talk to the owner who told me he was actively looking for a new spot because his lease is higher than prevailing market prices – more expensive by roughly P400 per square meter.