THE PHILIPPINES’ long-delayed attempt to ending political dynasties risks amounting to little more than a symbolic gesture unless it meaningfully disrupts family-based succession in power, analysts ...

A PHILIPPINE senator on Sunday called China’s coast guard use of water cannons against Filipino fishers at a disputed South China Sea shoal last week as escalatory, urging the government to fast-track ...

US PRESIDENT Donald J. Trump expressed uncertainty about whether Republicans would keep control of the House of Representatives in next year’s midterm elections because some of his economic policies ...

THE LEGAL counsel for Senator Ronald “Bato” M. Dela Rosa said they have had no recent communication with the lawmaker, whose month-long absence from the Senate coincides with reports of an alleged ...

THE PHILIPPINE government can harness the United Nations’ (UN) anti-corruption treaty to track down a former congressman linked to the multibillion-peso flood control scandal, a senator said. In a ...

THE Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) has approved a minimum wage increase of P35 for private sector workers, effective Dec. 30.

Thailand’s leader vowed on Saturday to keep fighting on the disputed border with Cambodia as fighter jets struck targets hours after US President Donald J. Trump said he had brokered a new ceasefire.

NEW DELHI — India tightened anti-pollution measures in Delhi and adjoining areas after the capital’s air quality deteriorated to the season’s worst. The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) ...

The Philippine coast guard said on Saturday that three Filipino fishermen had been wounded and two fishing vessels suffered “significant damage” when Chinese coast guard ships fired water cannon in a ...

The 12th Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA@12) recognized 15 journalists and digital storytellers whose work brought important community issues to wider public attention and showed how technology ...

Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) has officially launched the all-new bZ4X BEV today with the release of units to the first customers.The all-new bZ4X is TMP’s first Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) under ...

By Katherine K. Chan THE Philippine economy continues to bear the brunt of the ongoing flood control corruption scandal, Fitch Ratings said, noting that further unrest could spill over to the ...