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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...

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...

Is Criticizing 107 Billion Pesos in Flood Control in the 2027 Budget Now “Chinese Influence”?

There is an important question that the Armed Forces of the Philippines—and, frankly, the entire Philippine government—needs to answer. When the AFP warns that foreign...

Acosta’s Admission Releasing 125 million pesos shows how disastrous Vice President Sara Duterte thinks about fidelity of public funds

Was the Public Treasury a Political Piggy Bank? There are moments in an impeachment trial when the issue stops being about accounting procedures and starts...

When Will Energy Secretary Garin Pull the Trigger? An Observation on the Visayas Power Crisis, Accountability and the Nuclear Question

The Visayas crisis has exposed something uncomfortable: we simply do not have enough dependable generating capacity when demand rises, and several plants go offline at the same time. 

Not Justice. Just Bankruptcy: What A Week in Las Pinas and Quezon City Reveals

Picture this. On one side, the entire government — investigators, prosecutors, police, and above all, public funds that never run out. On the other...

2028 Elections: Why Changing Marcos or Sara Duterte Won’t Fix the Philippines

Both the President and the Vice President have shared their thoughts about 2028, with the President assuring us that he will support someone who...

The Philippine Economy Is Cooling. But Who Is Feeling the Cold?

There is a dangerous habit in Philippine economic reporting: We talk about GDP as though it were a thermometer attached to the entire country. GDP...

Wage Order, Potholes and the Price of a Filipino Workers’ Dignity

There is something deeply disturbing about the spectacle now unfolding around the ₱85 NCR wage increase. On one side are millions of workers being told...