It’s Sunday afternoon and campaigning for this year’s Philippine presidential elections is in full swing. The smell of pork adobo wafts through the air, reminding supporters gathered in this plaza to ...

An in-depth investigation into flood management projects in the Philippines has led to seven arrests and sparked a wave of ...

The ongoing investigations and scandals regarding the flood control corruption have revealed the basic weaknesses in the Philippine political system. While it is true that certain DPWH personnel have ...

The move comes as his administration is facing mounting political pressure from a corruption scandal. Read more at ...

In the Philippines, 2022 will be remembered as an election year in which familiar surnames dominated the polls. The Marcos–Duterte alliance in the May presidential elections has been described as a ...

Businesses in the Philippines look set to benefit from the newly stabilized political environment. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines had reason to exhale a sigh of relief on ...

Ferdinand Marcos, the strongman who ruled the Philippines with an iron grip for two decades, may have died over 30 years ago, but his ghost haunts the Philippine presidential election that is slated ...

The political history of the Philippines is complex: full of colonial twists, local and tribal influences, and religious devotion. These characteristics are common in Southeast Asian countries, but ...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte poses for a photo with the first family after delivering his third State of the Nation Address at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives Complex in Constitution ...

A priest turned policy maker finds that owners of diploma mills have powerful friends No one was more surprised than the Rev. Rolando V. de la Rosa when he was plucked out of relative obscurity a year ...

As the Philippines emerged as “the first ‘democratic’ republic in Asia,” the new focus on democratic elections was blended with the historical and cultural legacy of the encomienda system, whereby ...