While the bicam, which has members from the House and Senate, submitted its version of the budget on time, it has also earned criticism for removing the subsidy to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp ...

Philippines - December 04, 2024 Tensions in the South China Sea escalated on Wednesday as Chinese coast guard vessels, backed by navy ships, fired powerful water cannons and sideswiped a ...

Guessed why? Well, it’s about her paper. Entitled “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose,” it focused on the use of scent in literature — and a large ...

The two offices are elected separately in the Philippines, which has resulted in rivals occupying the country’s top political posts. Marcos and Duterte differ on their approaches to China’s ...

Political violence is nothing new in the Philippines. It was, after all, the site of the world’s worst massacre of media workers when 58 people, including 32 journalists, were murdered in 2009 while ...

Political violence is nothing new in the Philippines. It was, after all, the site of the world’s worst massacre of media workers when 58 people, including 32 journalists, were murdered in 2009 ...

The Philippines finds itself at a crossroads in its fight against climate change, all while dealing with shifts in its internal political landscape. Our country’s chairing of the Loss and Damage ...

This shift reflects a pragmatic blend of ideological adaptation and responsiveness to changing political realities. Left-wing insurgencies typically emerge with the belief that dismantling the ...

But then this is the Philippines, where politics and melodrama go hand in hand. "I have talked to a person,” Vice-president Sara Duterte said on her Facebook page last weekend. “I said ...

were endangering the fiscal stability of the Philippine government. At great political cost, then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and then Senator Ralph Recto pushed for the approval in Congress of ...

"But violence was very much part of the governing logic of the Americans in the Philippines," she said. "This embedded violence in the political system, especially in elections — exterminating ...

IN 1991, the US Army coined the acronym VUCA in response to the extreme conditions in Afghanistan and in Iraq that resulted in a total change in the nature of warfare. The art of their war adapted to ...