Since the House of Representatives passed its version of the proposed P7.2-trillion budget for 2027 on Oct. 12, budget reform ...

Bicol, home to the majestic Mount Mayon, is among the country’s most disaster-prone regions. It is regularly battered by storms and other calamities that test the resilience of its people year after ...

As the sole public utility in charge of power transmission lines, the chief mandate of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) is to ensure the reliability of the country’s electricity ...

In the Philippines, the powerful are rarely held to account. Rodrigo Duterte, now in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is one of few exceptions. The arrest represents a deeply ...

Transportation giant Grab offers a convenient alternative to navigating the country’s busy cities – but at a premium. Data collected by PCIJ showed that rides of the GrabCar service always included ...

Companies owned by some of the country’s richest business tycoons have run circles around government regulators, allowing them to gain control of the country’s clean energy resources. Last year, Ramon ...

When Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. was elected president, various groups raised the alarm about a possible decline of press freedom in the country. The fears come from a number of factors, foremost ...

THE POOR abound in this country — Filipinos who cannot earn or raise the minimum income to meet the basic food and non-food requirements. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) clusters them among ...

I recall a student publication that was forced to solicit money because they couldn’t access their own funds amounting to almost P300,000. I remember my editor’s face bannered in a post that tagged ...

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President Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte received tens of millions of pesos in campaign contributions from public works contractors despite a provision in the Omnibus Election Code that bans ...

At least 70 of 177 party-list groups accredited by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the May 2022 elections have nominees who are connected to political clans or incumbent local or national ...