Twenty relatives of Luis “Chavit” Singson ran in local races in Ilocos Sur, a province in northern Luzon with a little more than 700,000 people. Three others were nominees in the party-list race. Only ...

Marlo Mendoza is the architect of one of the world’s most ambitious regreening programs. His office at the University of the Philippines is crammed with books about trees and nature conservation.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s kin dominated the midterm elections in Ilocos Norte, mirroring ...

Western Visayas Region remains in the grip of political clans. Paolo Javier, scion of the Javier political clan, made a political comeback by winning the gubernatorial race in Antique on May 12 after ...

The Cordillera region, rooted in indigenous forms of governance, showed in this election that it continues to largely reject political dynasties. This is the case in four of its six provinces — ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Gubernatorial candidate Lord Allan Jay Velasco suffered a narrow defeat in Marinduque province in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Concerns have grown over how party list elections — originally designed to empower marginalized ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Filipino voters will be using new vote-counting machines from South Korean company Miru Systems, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has identified over a hundred Facebook ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Across six provinces of Eastern Visayas, the same political dynasties ruled Monday’s midterm ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Commission on Elections has introduced measures to improve electoral access for vulnerable ...

Camille Villar, the fourth in her family to seek a seat in the Senate, continued to outspend her rivals in advertising spending on traditional media, largely on TV and radio. She has run ads worth ...