Winning senatorial candidate Camille Villar reported spending P179.6 million during the election campaign, based on her own submission to the Commission on Elections (Comelec). She was followed by ...

It was a historic midterm election in Las Piñas City. For the first time in 27 years, its lone district representative will not be from the Villar clan. Outgoing Sen. Cynthia Villar lost the race to ...

Eight years after the May 23, 2017 siege of Marawi City, residents voted to further consolidate the Gandamra family’s political influence, amid mixed opinions on social media over who bears ...

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has identified over a hundred Facebook pages presenting themselves as media outlets but are actually running political ads for national and ...

Ilocos Sur: The ‘super obese’ dynasty of Singsons Chavit Singson withdrew from the Senate race as early as Jan. 14, citing his need to recover from pneumonia. The political kingpin of Ilocos Sur had ...

The region is prone to strong typhoons and other disasters. The politicians who are often seen attending to victims’ needs are behind or have allowed government projects blamed for environmental ...

The author is an Assistant Professor (On Study Leave) at the Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University and is currently taking Ph.D. in Political Science at the Department of ...

If lawyer Ernesto Arellano is elected senator in May, he will vote to pass a divorce law. He will also convince other senators to vote in favor of the controversial measure. “Inhuman na pilitin mo ang ...

Like many readers, I was deeply touched by Columbia University investigative journalism professor Sheila Coronel’s story “The Making of Edgar Matobato.” Published as a longform piece by the Philippine ...

Zapanta is one of at least 166 individuals charged or designated as terrorists in recent years under the TFPSA and the newer law, Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, based on data from Karapatan, an alliance ...

Grab Philippines rolled out the tech feature in October 2024 while appealing the government’s 2020 cease and desist order on it. A data privacy expert says there is reason to believe the ban is still ...

My EDSA story begins in 1983 when Ninoy Aquino was assassinated. It is is a story that continues today. I write about this in my memoir Ransomed by Love. In June 1983, I decided to return to Manila, ...