Our guide to the key concepts and phrases related to the country’s ever-widening graft scandal.

Poverty in the country is projected to keep falling in the coming years as the economy creates more and better-paying jobs, though the decline is expected to ...

ADB has approved a $15 million financing package to strengthen the banking and capital markets and enhance financial ...

Achieving a peaceful and orderly situation in the Bicol region relies on eradicating extreme poverty, rather than solely on law enforcement and anti-crime operations, the newly-appointed chair of the ...

MANILA: As political turmoil continued to shake the Philippines in 2025, Imee Marcos, chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, described the year as "traumatic" and "dramatic" in a recent ...

This paper evaluates the effects of interventions based on behavioral science on measures of early childhood socio-cognitive development (and related household-level outcomes) for children from ...

From Sri Lanka’s central highlands to Indonesia’s flood-swollen river basins, a wave of climate-fuelled cyclones and monsoon ...

Authoritarian governments such as Venezuela, Indonesia, or the Philippines have long treated data as a political weapon.

CARDINAL Pablo David’s message to the people gathered at the EDSA People Power Monument on Nov. 30 drew a dividing line ...

The term "pagpag" means "to shake off dirt" in Tagalog and refers to leftover food—usually meat scraps—retrieved from ...

Jobs held by women are nearly twice as exposed to automation, while youth employment is declining in high-AI-exposure roles, ...