The 2025 Philippine elections underscored a growing truth in politics: branding shapes not just perception but performance.

Good day. Here are the stories of The Manila Times for Friday, May 16, 2025. Today's episode is brought to you by Wilcon ...

WE just witnessed two extraordinary elections. They had nothing to do with each other. One looked like the antithesis of the ...

FORMER president Rodrigo Duterte's resounding election victory in Davao City carries no weight in the eyes of international ...

THE campaign manager of the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas said the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte was the main ...

The mid-term Senate results suggest a clear mandate: move the country forward through cooperation, not confrontation” The storm from the midterm ...

Retired Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio pointed out a “dissonance” among Filipinos who still support former ...

Hit by successive electoral defeats, Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan felt the 2025 midterm election was his final shot at ...

Over 55 million voters trooped to polling precincts to cast their votes last Monday, the highest ever recorded in the country for a midterm electoral exercise, according to the Commission on Elections ...

Re-electionist Senator Christopher “Bong” Go remained the frontrunner in the partial and unofficial results of the senatorial ...

Opposition figures Leila de Lima and Chel Diokno will replace two lawmakers who were assigned to prosecute Vice President Sara Duterte in her impeachment trial but lost their reelection bids. Full sto ...

Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero believes the impeachment rules in the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte should ...