The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) has identified over a hundred Facebook pages presenting themselves as media outlets but are actually running political ads for national and ...

They locked the doors to their room, hooked wireless headsets to their phones, pushed an earpiece to the left, to the right, and clicked the link. MANILA, Philippines — A message arrived on the group ...

DATA COLLECTION. HARD DRIVES SEIZED BY THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FROM CHINESE NATIONALS ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF ESPIONAGE. NBI HANDOUT PHOTO. Philippine Navy Rear Admiral Roy Vincent ...

Candidates in the May 2025 Philippine elections aired television and radio ads worth over P10 billion before discounts from January to December 2024, based on newly released data that the Philippine ...

A text message from your bank may not be from your bank at all. How do scammers use fake cell towers to hijack legitimate SMS threads and target unsuspecting victims? Watch this video explainer by the ...

At the core of the resistance on the island are at least three indigenous families who have lived on Mariahangin for generations, primarily relying on fishing and agar-agar (seaweed) farming for their ...

Filipinos could only vote in 1907, and only men were allowed to do so. Filipinos in the US were permitted suffrage after World War II in 1946. But the Cordillerans who joined the St. Louis Fair in ...

We’ve seen sibling pairs in the Senate, as well as mother-and-son tandems. But three brothers? If the pre-election polls hold until May 12, 2025, neophyte Sen. Raffy Tulfo will be welcoming two of his ...

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 ...

Research by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) shows that 36 out of 54 party-list groups in the current 19th Congress have at least one nominee belonging to a political family.

The Sanggunian Kabataan (SK) law and Bangsamoro Electoral Code define and prohibit political dynasties. However, these laws only cover the SK and Bangsamoro parliamentary elections. In national and ...

BLACK EXHAUST. A delivery truck spews black exhaust that engulfs a woman walking along Kisad Road in Baguio City. Photo by Maverick Asio On Baguio’s steep roads, the exhaust is at its worst on the ...