The Philippines is the political dynasty capital of the world,” then-Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago declared in her explanatory note to The Anti-Political Dynasty Act, a bill “prohibiting the ...

By National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers Corruption in the Philippines is not an anomaly. It is embedded in the very structure ...

It is all the more unusual when we consider that Singapore began to earn its reputation after it was expelled from the Federation of Malaya in 1963 and was reduced to the meager territory of a ...

THE ombudsman was once imagined as the citizen’s last line of defense against abuse of public office — a constitutional guardian created in 1987 to ensure accountability among those who serve the ...

The political spectacle unfolding in Congress has introduced a new player: Representative Leandro Legarda Leviste. Young, articulate, and driven by a narrative ...

"Together, Marcos, the Speaker, and the DBM have turned the national budget into an instrument of control rather than service ...

The amount of taxpayer money that is alleged to have been lost to the flood control corruption scandal is staggering, involving more than a hundred billion pesos. The Anti-Money Laundering Council ...

The corruption crisis in the Philippines stems from a failure of leadership deeply embedded in the culture of patronage ...

ASEAN members were “meeting at a time when global order is undergoing profound changes”, said Malaysian Foreign Minister ...

Every road repaired, classroom built, or flood-control dike dredged begins as a line in the national budget. For all its technical language — “appropriations,” “obligations,” “allotments” — the budget ...

The Philippines formally accepted the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) Chairship from Malaysia during the ...

The Department of National Defense (DND) on Monday said Filipinos' outright rejection of any military intervention in any ...