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 ...

Public anger has reached such a pitch that even jailing corrupt contractors or filing cases against officials may not be ...

Sitting on the boundary of the Pacific’s Ring of Fire, the Philippines is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters.

THERE are an estimated 15 million Filipinos either living or working abroad, and dispersed across more than 100 countries. Over the decades, their number has steadily grown due to the pursuit of ...

In education, elite private schools provide small classes, technology, and global exposure, while public schools make do with ...

The avalanche of Congressional inquiries and whistleblower stories on the trillion-peso guni-guni flood control projects has awakened the citizenry to the massive corruption being committed by those ...

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 ...

"What this signal is a shift in public mood resulting from economic pressures and governance failures" THE latest dip in trust ratings of President ...

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