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

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 ...

PHILIPPINE economic growth is expected to remain within target this year, although global trade woes and domestic political ...

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 ...

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

THE ACQUITTAL last week of high-profile officials in large-scale graft cases poses a familiar risk that newly lodged corruption complaints, including those over multibillion-peso flood control ...

"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 ...

My late friend and comrade Kethesh Loganathan, son of a famous banker, a Georgetown alumnus, theoretician of the Marxist-led ...