It was a historic midterm election in Las Piñas City. For the first time in 27 years, its lone district representative will not be from the Villar clan. Outgoing Sen. Cynthia Villar lost the race to ...

The political dynasty series of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) won an Award for Excellence at the 2025 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) annual Awards for Editorial ...

Victims of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war have also opposed his bid for interim release, arguing that this could allow him to evade justice and even pose danger to their security. In a ...

The proposed federated region of CALABARZON will comprise the current provinces in the current Region IV-A namely, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon. CALABARZON ranks sixth highest among the ...

Historical Resistance to Political Dynasties Kurt Zeus Lequit Dizon, a political science instructor at Saint Louis University here in Baguio City, said there is a correlation between the colonizer’s ...

RE makes sense These are the reasons why environmentalists say renewable energy (RE) makes sense in the Philippines. It comes from naturally occuring sources such as wind, sunlight and water, which ...

What you need to know about this story: The late DENR Secretary Gina Lopez’s closure and suspension orders against 28 mines in 2017 were not implemented following a review ordered by Malacañang. A ...

Evacuation and relocation The DOH and DENR’s recommendation in 2017 was urgent, but evacuating and relocating the residents would prove to be a challenge. Based on information obtained through a data ...

Robredo’s spending up sixfold after COC filing Robredo’s camp has spent a total of P14.1 million on Facebook ads as of Dec. 31, 2021. The amount covered ads launched by Robredo’s official page and by ...

Transportation giant Grab offers a convenient alternative to navigating the country’s busy cities – but at a premium. Data collected by PCIJ showed that rides of the GrabCar service always included ...

Part 1 of 4 What you need to know about Part 1: The town of Marilao in Bulacan province has the biggest number of chicken dressing plants nationwide, slaughtering more than 24 million chickens yearly.

Political dynasties continue to hold a tight grip on provinces in the Philippines. By the count of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), at least 71 of the country’s 82 provincial ...