President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. came under growing pressure during the course of the year but has managed to survive – at ...

Our guide to the key concepts and phrases related to the country’s ever-widening graft scandal.

Ace Aguirre was just two bites into his oatmeal on the morning of November 4 when he noticed something strange: mud had seeped onto the living room floor of his bungalow in Cotcot, a village in the ...

A group of civilians including two former government officials filed a graft complaint against Philippine Vice President Sara ...

House Speaker Faustino Dy III led on Thursday the filing of a landmark Anti-Political Dynasty Bill, a reform he vowed to ...

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has thrown its full support behind the passage of an anti-dynasty ...

CHRISTMAS in the Philippines has always been a season of joy, resilience, and unshakeable hope. Even in the darkest years, we ...

It was a rocky year for the powerful Villar family, from a humiliating election defeat in their bailiwick, to their business ...

THE PHILIPPINES’ long-delayed attempt to ending political dynasties risks amounting to little more than a symbolic gesture unless it meaningfully disrupts family-based succession in power, analysts ...

Two gunmen accused of a Hanukkah attack in Sydney stayed in Davao City, Philippines, where they interacted minimally with hotel staff. Police assert Sajid Akram and his son Naveed, inspired by Islamic ...

Like development models, protest movements are not portable. Conditions that make them plausible or even necessary in one ...

Greed and audacity in politics infuriate us. Many want to grab whatever they can get; they treat politics as a self-service store. Political culture is increasingly deteriorating, not only in the ...