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MC Taxi Riders Appeal to LTFRB amidst Overboarding Issue

MANILA, Philippines, October 22, 2026 — Motorcycle taxi riders are calling on the Marcos administration and transport regulatory bodies to provide those operating beyond...

China’s Wolf Warriors are Back. Beijing Should Recall Its Ambassador to Manila

China's ambassador to the Philippines has accomplished in a few sentences what years of Chinese public diplomacy have struggled to prevent: He has reinforced the perception that Beijing regards its smaller neighbors not as sovereign equals, but as countries expected to accommodate its growing military and economic power.

El Niño, Ayuda and the Politics of Disaster: Are We Preparing for Drought or the 2028 Elections?

The Marcos administration is preparing billions of pesos in drought-related spending. But will that money build permanent water security, or deepen a political culture in which disaster relief becomes a source of electoral patronage?

The Real Question Behind NCAP 2.0 is Not Fines. It’s Accountability

There is a question that deserves to be asked about the heated online reaction to the enhanced No Contact Apprehension Program now being implemented...

When Oil Price Hikes Become Untenable and Turn Into a Problem of Trust

There is something revealing about President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s insistence that the Philippines should look to its Southeast Asian neighbors for ways to contain...

Was the Duterte Machine Building a Road Back to Malacanang? Possible Implications of Trillanes Expose on VP Sara Duterte and her husband receiving Chinese...

The most consequential question emerging from the Philippine political crisis may no longer be whether the Marcos-Duterte alliance collapsed. It plainly did. The more consequential question...

Trillanes IV: Vice President Sara Duterte and husband got Chinese hot money

Former Philippine senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV’s explosive allegations today about Chinese money allegedly flowing into entities connected to Vice President Sara Duterte and...

Digital Front Doors: When Government Is Online but Public Service Is Still Hard to Find

As a resident of Manila, I have learned that dealing with local government increasingly begins not at City Hall, but on a screen. We search...

Corruption’s High Tide: Why Floods Keep Drowning Filipinos

In the wake of Nepal’s recent flash floods, which have displaced thousands and exposed the fragility of its disaster management systems, the Philippines has...