IN Philippine politics, demolition is not an accident. It is an art — learned, refined and repeatedly deployed because it works. It is cheaper than governance, faster than persuasion, and far more ...

FINDING ANSWERSMany did not see it coming. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. — heir to one of the most enduring political dynasties in the country — has ...

In the South China Sea, a disputed maritime area, Chinese coast guard vessels fired water cannons at Filipino fishing boats ...

FOR decades, the anti-dynasty law has been treated as a kind of moral silver bullet, an article of democratic faith that, ...

Two Filipino activist priests joined a group of complainants in filing a plunder complaint against Vice President Sara ...

The Philippines said on Monday it will protest the Chinese coast guard's "harassment and endangerment" of Filipino fishermen in a South China Sea shoal last week. Three Filipino fishermen were injured ...

U.S. military delegation surveyed a new Luzon Strait base for joint defense operations in the country's north near Taiwan.

Perhaps some Filipinos, realizing that a few of the mighty have fallen this year, probably think that while this has been President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s annus horribilis, it’s been annus mirabilis f ...

ART Lounge Manila at The Podium closes out 2025 with a bang, mounting a copious 50-artist group show where political dissent gets creatively channeled into purposeful artworks, auctioned for the ...

From this angle, the Ship of Theseus is no paradox at all. The ship is one continuous journey of becoming. Its identity lies not in frozen parts, but in directed movement. And then, almost quietly, ...

Remulla says he's at the anti-corruption summit in Doha to network with countries that flood control fugitives might flee to, to escape accountability in the Philippines ...

Tariffs will curb the Philippines' economic momentum this year, the International Monetary Fund said as it cut its growth forecast for the Southeast Asian country.