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Despite the president’s promises to crack down on high-level corruption, the pressure on his government continues to build.
The task force aims to enhance interoperability and crisis responses of American and Filipino troops, particularly in the disputed sea.
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-Chinese Sy family of the SM Group,
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27 gov’t contractors flagged for donations to political candidates
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has formally asked 27 government contractors to explain why they should not be charged with violating the Omnibus Election Code for making alleged campaign contributions to political candidates who ran in May 2022,
Manila also aims to improve maritime coordination among Philippine agencies in disputed areas such as the Scarborough Shoal.
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As it assumes ASEAN chair, the Philippines faces 3 hard tests
At the close of this year’s ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. officially accepted the bloc’s chairmanship from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim — a symbolic handover that also placed on the Philippines' shoulders a set of regional problems with no easy fixes.
In case you missed it, the Philippines recently signed the Artemis Accords, a U.S.-led diplomatic instrument for shaping the norms of operations in space exploration. What exactly does this mean, especially since the Philippines has a nonexistent space program?
A series of large-scale corruption scandals has caused a widespread uproar across the Philippines. Corruption is not a new problem, but its extent has surprised no less than Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who publicly berated his allies for ...
This “entertainment-driven” behavior, he added, shapes even local politics. Bandiola noted that the same appeal that catapulted actor Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr. to the Senate is mirrored by local politicians who would “do everything, place their names everywhere just to attain popular or celebrity status.”