After NATO members gathered at The Hague and pledged to increase defence spending, a doctored image was shared in posts ...

SYJUCO: The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliché of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.

Philippines' President Benigno Aquino answer questions during a Foreign Correspodents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) forum at a hotel in Manila October 23, 2013. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco By ...

As the noise and colour of a two-month election campaign subsides, a game of thrones between the two most powerful families in the Philippines resumes. President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr ...

This conversation with Dr. Jean Encinas-Franco – a professor in the Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines, Diliman – is the ...