MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Allies of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the presumptive next president of the Philippines, appear set to dominate both chambers of Congress, further alarming activists after the ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption blamed for substandard ...

Representative Lord Allan Velasco speaks after being sworn in as the new house speaker by supporters at the Celebrity sports club in Quezon city, Philippines on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. A large faction ...

Philippine authorities detained seven suspects and several more were being sought in a major corruption scandal involving ...

Philippine police will arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that has sparked huge protests and forced implicated congressional leaders to step down ...

Philippine Sailors assigned to Naval Special Operations Units and U.S. Naval Special Warfare operators perform a bilateral over the beach training exercise in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines during ...

Manila — After years of attacks from President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines' largest broadcaster officially lost its bid to have its broadcast license renewed on Friday. A vote in the Philippine ...

Philippine policymakers are racing to catch up with an AI wave that is already reshaping local business, but the country still does not have a single, comprehensive law that clearly spells out what is ...

The Philippine Congress is set to debate a new law this week that would promote sterilizations and would threaten health workers with jail time for not making contraceptives available. The new law ...

The National Parks Development Committee (NPDC), an agency attached to the Department of Tourism and mandated to develop, ...

Corruption in public infrastructure projects has exposed deep weaknesses in Philippine accountability institutions.