This week, Alex Eala climbed to a career-high world No. 17 in the WTA rankings. No Filipino — and no Southeast Asian player, full stop — has ever been ranked that high. She's 21 years old, and by the way the season has gone, she isn't finished climbing yet. Eala was born in Quezon City and picked up a racket at four, coached first by her grandfather. She turned pro in March 2020, while still a teenager, and spent her formative years training at Rafael Nadal's own academy in M

Dolores Huerta died on October 28 at 96, and the tributes have been pouring in ever since — for good reason. She spent six decades organizing farmworkers, co-founded the United Farm Workers, coined the labor movement's defining slogan, “¡Sí se puede!,” and kept working well into her nineties. Nearly every obituary calls her one of the two people who built the modern farmworker movement, alongside César Chávez. That's true. It's also only half the story. The movement that made

Metro Manila's unsold condo inventory just hit a record high: 82,900 units, according to Leechiu Property Consultants, the most it has ever tracked. At the current sales pace, LPC estimates it would take about 34 months to absorb that backlog — nearly three years, against a historical average of roughly 12 months. The number has crept up slowly rather than crashed; it stood at 82,500 units in 2025, so the glut hasn't gotten dramatically worse, but it hasn't meaningfully clear

On November 24, the Miss Universe Organization crowns its 75th titleholder in San Juan, Puerto Rico, closing out a three-quarter-century run for one of the most-watched pageants on earth. The Philippines is sending Bea Millan-Windorski to chase the country’s fifth crown, a win that would tie the Philippines for the most Miss Universe titles of any nation. But Millan-Windorski didn’t need to wait for the stage in Puerto Rico to find herself at the center of a very old argument