They locked the doors to their room, hooked wireless headsets to their phones, pushed an earpiece to the left, to the right, and clicked the link. MANILA, Philippines — A message arrived on the group ...

Rechiel Antones, 36, manages a printing shop in Southville 6 in Calamba City, Laguna, southeast of Metro Manila. It’s also near a massive landfill that seemed no number of sanitation citations could ...

Political dynasties continue to hold a tight grip on provinces in the Philippines. By the count of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), at least 71 of the country’s 82 provincial ...

Rain showers greeted Renato Ibañez and other Indigenous leaders when they gathered in Manila in mid-September to halt the controversial Kaliwa Dam in dense forests east of Manila. Ibañez lives in ...

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Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Nearly 40 years ago, the framers ...

From brewing beer to burning coal, the Philippines’ food and beer giant – San Miguel Corp. (SMC) of tycoon Ramon Ang – is now one of the country’s largest power producers. Its energy arm, San Miguel ...

THE POOR abound in this country — Filipinos who cannot earn or raise the minimum income to meet the basic food and non-food requirements. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) clusters them among ...

Just five months ago, thousands of Duterte supporters were trashing the Supreme Court on Facebook, calling it “useless” and demanding it act against the former president’s arrest. Now these same ...

We’ve seen sibling pairs in the Senate, as well as mother-and-son tandems. But three brothers? If the pre-election polls hold until May 12, 2025, neophyte Sen. Raffy Tulfo will be welcoming two of his ...

seventeen relatives of Luis “Chavit” Singson’s political clan ran in local races in Ilocos Sur, a province in northern Luzon with a little more than 700,000 people. One lost her electoral bid.

Companies owned by some of the country’s richest business tycoons have run circles around government regulators, allowing them to gain control of the country’s clean energy resources. Last year, Ramon ...