In the 1950s, the Philippines was considered — together with Burma — the most promising economy in East Asia, way ahead of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Like Burma (called Myanmar ...

China, which has long viewed US and allied defense cooperation with deep suspicion, is likely to react negatively to the ...

VCG. A report on the three-year administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. authored by Chinese ...

This “entertainment-driven” behavior, he added, shapes even local politics. Bandiola noted that the same appeal that ...

With the federal government shutdown threatening to cut off SNAP food benefits for thousands of Oklahomans, state leaders voted Monday to tap emergency funds to keep food assistance going—but only ...

What is happening to our country today has been foretold very accurately by the greatest Asian writer and political novelist, Dr. Jose Rizal in his immortal masterpieces, the “Noli me Tangere” and the ...

IT appears that the new line of attack of the diehard Duterte supporters (DDS) and their social-media operatives has shifted from vilifying their usual political targets to attacking the Armed Forces ...

The recent weakening of both the US dollar (USD) and the Philippine peso (PHP) signals more than a short-term market swing. It reflects a deeper global transformation—a shift from US-centric, ...

In precolonial Philippines, the male datu served as the secular head of the community, but the female babaylan was revered as ...

The administration calls drug traffickers “enemy combatants,” a law of war label intended to justify killing them. Under international humanitarian law, a state’s military forces have the “combatant’s ...

He expressed “Corruption at this level is systematic. It is syndicate. It is a deeply ingrained network, one that we have been fighting with for over 50 years that is protected by power.