BULACAN, Philippines -- Residents of Balagtas, a town in Bulacan province, the Philippines, are furious over an abandoned ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping hasn’t set foot in Manila since 2018. His invitation to return comes with conditions attached.

As typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi, internationally) left over 200 Filipinos dead while affecting nearly 2 million people, President ...

Well-known personalities in the Philippines are often revealed to have ties or relations to other influential figures in certain industries, such as the Barretto clan in Filipino showbiz, the Filipino ...

Paolo Duterte’s claims of the military ‘showing off for America’ are aimed at undermining the current administration, ...

Political analysts say persistent natural disasters could sustain public frustrations and anti-government protests.

A specter is haunting Philippine politics today: the specter of gambling, which is being linked to youth addiction, unethical use of public funds, money laundering, kidnapping, and murder. Gambling ...

When Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in June 2022, it was thanks in part to a political alliance he struck with his predecessor, former President Rodrigo Duterte, and his ...

An alliance of 30 influential Philippine business and civic organizations has called for an independent investigation into what it described as the “shameful” corruption linked to government ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Philippine politics have historically been dominated by a handful of political ...

The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) stands on the cusp of its first parliamentary elections scheduled for October 2025. The shake-up within its interim government, the ...

The West Philippine Sea issue should not be used to further anyone’s political agenda as it concerns every Filipino, said ...