Winning senatorial candidate Camille Villar reported spending P179.6 million during the election campaign, based on her own submission to the Commission on Elections (Comelec). She was followed by ...

Of the 212 winning lawmakers from dynasties, 174 have at least one relative who was elected to a local position in May or is serving a term until 2028. In some provinces, a single clan captured most ...

Indigenous land claims The Molbog and Cagayanen tribes of Mariahangin have applied for an ancestral domain title over the island as early as 2005. Their application has not been acted upon by the ...

The quarry operations of the Cos in Albay The Ako Bicol (AKB) party-list group traces its roots to SOS-Bicol, a non-governmental organization originally formed to assist victims of calamities such as ...

The author is an Assistant Professor (On Study Leave) at the Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University and is currently taking Ph.D. in Political Science at the Department of ...

Historical Resistance to Political Dynasties Kurt Zeus Lequit Dizon, a political science instructor at Saint Louis University here in Baguio City, said there is a correlation between the colonizer’s ...

Finding an Image Style For the visuals, I wanted to use a style that would evoke the story’s original narrative while making clear to viewers that these were merely symbolic imagery. After some trials ...

Zapanta is one of at least 166 individuals charged or designated as terrorists in recent years under the TFPSA and the newer law, Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, based on data from Karapatan, an alliance ...

My EDSA story begins in 1983 when Ninoy Aquino was assassinated. It is is a story that continues today. I write about this in my memoir Ransomed by Love. In June 1983, I decided to return to Manila, ...

A total of 80, or about 53% of all city mayors, are dynasts seeking reelection. Meanwhile, 27 sitting city mayors are considering relatives to replace them as most of them run for other positions. And ...

Breaching P1B Marcos is one of two senatorial candidates who aired ads worth P1 billion over the nine-month period before the filing of certificates of candidacy (CoCs) in October 2024. The other ...

This Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism report was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Last of two parts Workplaces are required to secure permits ...