The party-list system, introduced in 1987 to ensure the poor have a say in government, is dominated by powerful families.

Philippines election hopefuls like mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa have to ask themselves whether the job is worth taking a ...

Administrative charges are being prepared against the seven police officers considered "persons of interest" in the April 10 ...

Authorities stopped an unregistered or “colorum” van in Quezon City for overloading passengers, the Department of ...

Despite the recent shooting of Albuera, Leyte, mayoralty bet Kerwin Espinosa, the province is generally peaceful, the ...

After years of shattered lives as armed rebels in the mountains of Leyte, two siblings found true freedom after leaving the ...

MANILA, Philippines — There was no need to place Albuera town in Leyte under “red category,” or areas with serious armed threats, after confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa was shot during a campaign ...

Riley, the Philippine eagle whose unassisted hatching brought hope to conservation efforts earlier this year, has died.

The art work, which Philippine Ambassador to the UAE Alfonso Ferdinand Ver and Ong’s Sharjah resident eldest, Nigel, unveiled ...