The bill includes a record ₱1.28-trillion allocation for the education sector— the highest ever in Philippine history. The House also kept a ₱255-billion cut from the Department of Public Works and ...

Only 3 percent of Filipinos do not believe corruption in government is widespread, and 59 percent see it as a “normal” part of Philippine politics, a recent Pulse Asia ...

Impossible is Not So Easy: A Life in Politics” (Bughaw, 2019) and “Retrieving the Past: A Memoir” (Bughaw, 2024).

Southeast Asia’s geography, oodles of islands and long coastlines strung along tropical latitudes, makes it vulnerable to ...

Gardo Versoza referred to Mayor Vico Sotto as the “huling baraha ng Pilipinas,” commending his integrity and leadership in ...