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In the 1950s, the Philippines was considered — together with Burma — the most promising economy in East Asia, way ahead of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Like Burma (called Myanmar ...

A major rezoning proposal from Mayor Daniel Lurie has divided the city ahead of its first board of supervisors public hearing on Monday.

On one hand, there will be talk of tightening up, while on the other, the Government will probably expand the number of jobs for which companies can import staff, in a review now under way. These ...

In a column about eight years ago, I argued that the Philippines lived not in a true democracy, but in a nominal one. We continue to see elections and similar democratic rituals on the surface, but ...

In the 21st century, civic engagement has forgotten the ballot boxes, town halls and the conventional meetings and moved to the online arena where millions of people are interconnected in real time.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of a “profound failure of leadership” because he ...

The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) said it will formally challenge the NBA’s decision to withhold Miami Heat ...

An opinion piece argues that harmful binaries (Marcos vs. Duterte, conservative vs. liberal) dominate Filipino politics and ...

Even young lawmaker Kiko Barzaga has reignited the debate on it on social media ... The 1987 Constitution defines the Philippines as “an archipelagic state” whose territory is permanent and ...

While probably not as gruesome as the seminal battle, the Eumir Marcial-Eddy Colmenares bout could be the closest a ...

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