Well-known personalities in the Philippines are often revealed to have ties or relations to other influential figures in certain industries, such as the Barretto clan in Filipino showbiz, the Filipino ...

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 ...

Philippine Vice President-elect Sara Duterte, second from left, poses with, from left, Senator Imee Marcos, her mother Elizabeth Zimmerman, outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, incoming ...

This article by Nuel M. Bacarra was originally published on Kodao, an independent news site in the Philippines. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement ...

The Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) says that that it has received 43,033 applications for the midterm elections scheduled for May 2025. Each voter will select 12 senators, a district ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Philippines’ Commission on Elections recently proclaimed the 12 winning senators of the just-concluded midterm elections. Unfortunately for me, I voted for only two of those winners. However, if ...

The vehicle market, and the overall economy, slows as political crisis hits confidence. The recovery in the Philippine vehicle market that had been taking place throughout most of 2000 came to an ...