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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 ...
It was a historic midterm election in Las Piñas City. For the first time in 27 years, its lone district representative will not be from the Villar clan. Outgoing Sen. Cynthia Villar lost the race to ...
The political dynasty series of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) won an Award for Excellence at the 2025 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) annual Awards for Editorial ...
It was a historic midterm election in Las Piñas City. For the first time in 27 years, its lone district representative will not be from the Villar clan. Outgoing Sen. Cynthia Villar lost the race to ...
June 30, 2025 Carmela S. Fonbuena PCIJ Executive Director The political dynasty series of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) won an Award for Excellence at the 2025 Society of ...
June 30, 2025 Carmela S. Fonbuena PCIJ Executive Director The political dynasty series of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) won an Award for Excellence at the 2025 Society of ...
Victims of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war have also opposed his bid for interim release, arguing that this could allow him to evade justice and even pose danger to their security. In a ...
Three companies owned or managed by the family of top Filipino billionaire Manuel Villar Jr. owe Las Piñas City at least P213.55 million in accumulated taxes and penalties, according to documents ...
RE makes sense These are the reasons why environmentalists say renewable energy (RE) makes sense in the Philippines. It comes from naturally occuring sources such as wind, sunlight and water, which ...
First of three parts The province of Batangas, some 100 kilometers away from the Philippine capital, is known for many things: beach resorts and diving spots, lomi and kapeng barako, Taal volcano and ...
Forests made up 27.5 million hectares or 92% of the country’s total land area in the 16th century, when Spanish colonizers arrived. Forest cover dropped to 15.8 million hectares during the last years ...
These disinformation narratives that have circulated for decades have been given a “veneer of history and of received knowledge… to the point na hindi na ma -trace kung saan nila unang narinig (they ...