MANILA, Philippines — Nearly nine in 10 Filipinos will enter 2026 with hope rather than fear, but this marks the lowest level of optimism in 16 years, according to a Social Weather Stations survey ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos who say their quality of life worsened over the past year continued to increase in the fourth quarter survey conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS). From 32 percent ...

MANILA, Philippines — Forty-four percent of adult Filipinos are optimistic that their quality of life will improve in 2026, while eight percent believe it will worsen, according to a Social Weather ...

Forty-four percent of adult Filipinos are looking forward to the improvement of their quality of life ("optimists") in the next 12 months, a survey conducted in November by Social Weather Stations ...

(1st UPDATE) A November SWS survey commissioned by Stratbase shows the President's trust numbers slipping back to their post-Duterte arrest levels, as Vice President Sara Duterte's trust numbers ...

The net trust rating of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. slipped to -3% while that of Vice President Sara Duterte improved to 31% amid government investigations into alleged anomalous flood ...

A socially relevant nativity scene is displayed at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Project 8, Quezon City, which depicts the manger in a shanty amidst debris and trash brought about by floods.

Israel isn’t the world’s most popular country, except when it comes to military hardware. A country the size of New Jersey is now the world’s eighth-largest arms exporter with a record-breaking $15 ...

WW2 introduced rugged telescopic scopes that held zero after repeated firing and withstood battlefield conditions. Standardized match-grade barrels and quality ammunition made precision reproducible ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

The United States test-fired an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump ordered nuclear weapons tests. The unarmed missile carried a ...

Analysts say China has developed a chilling strategy for fighting a war with the United States: destroy America’s fighter jets before they ever leave the ground. In nearly every modern conflict, ...