The ongoing investigations and scandals regarding the flood control corruption have revealed the basic weaknesses in the Philippine political system.

The vice president of the Philippines, Sara Duterte, has claimed to have hired someone to assassinate the president in the event that she herself is killed. Duterte is the daughter of Rodrigo Duterte, ...

It’s Sunday afternoon and campaigning for this year’s Philippine presidential elections is in full swing. The smell of pork adobo wafts through the air, reminding supporters gathered in this plaza to ...

Manila: Hold onto your seats. Philippine politics just got even wilder. A once-formidable alliance between President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte, has turned into open warfare.

THERE are a lot of concerns and reasons for Filipinos to be worried about the current political exercises in the country.

"Let’s radically change our corrupt political system, forthwith!" CORRUPTION in the Philippines is a system, and like any ...

Philippine Vice President-elect Sara Duterte, second from left, poses with, from left, Senator Imee Marcos, her mother Elizabeth Zimmerman, outgoing Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, incoming ...

The Philippines’ Commission on Elections recently proclaimed the 12 winning senators of the just-concluded midterm elections. Unfortunately for me, I voted for only two of those winners. However, if ...

As the Philippines emerged as “the first ‘democratic’ republic in Asia,” the new focus on democratic elections was blended with the historical and cultural legacy of the encomienda system, whereby ...

THE FloodGate scandal has become the symbol of everything rotten in the Philippine system of public works being contracted to entrenched cartels of favored companies, political patrons shielding their ...

MANILA -- For nearly two weeks, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's usually soft-spoken national security adviser has been detained under guard in a Manila hospital on contempt charges filed by the ...