seventeen relatives of Luis “Chavit” Singson’s political clan ran in local races in Ilocos Sur, a province in northern Luzon with a little more than 700,000 people. One lost her electoral bid.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Rechiel Antones, 36, manages a printing shop in Southville 6 in Calamba City, Laguna, southeast of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X THE STATE of media freedom in the Philippines presents the continuing paradox of a libertarian ...

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Between July 2022 and May 2025, the first three years of the Marcos presidency, the government funded 9,855 flood-control projects worth over P545 billion. We analyzed those projects and the companies ...

Filipinos could only vote in 1907, and only men were allowed to do so. Filipinos in the US were permitted suffrage after World War II in 1946. But the Cordillerans who joined the St. Louis Fair in ...

Political dynasties continue to hold a tight grip on provinces in the Philippines. By the count of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), at least 71 of the country’s 82 provincial ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X After delays, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) auction for 3,300 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X THIS ANNUAL exercise is rooted in the context of human rights as a manifestation as well as ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo topped ad spending on Facebook among all candidates, ...

Philippine efforts to exit the global money laundering “grey list” finally succeeded, an accomplishment that will enhance the country’s credibility in the global financial system, making it more ...

Just five months ago, thousands of Duterte supporters were trashing the Supreme Court on Facebook, calling it “useless” and demanding it act against the former president’s arrest. Now these same ...