All across the Philippines mounds of plastic pollution of varied sizes, can be found spread out across the lush, green vegetation that makes the Philippines so beautiful. Like a multicolored wound …
Questions about the age of consent in the Philippines are among the most frequent online search terms relating to the country. This, of course, could lead to some pretty grim …
It’s quite possible to spend a long time around the Philippines without realising that the islands have their own unique script, Baybayin. With its elegant curling form, it’s quite unmistakable …
The financial and banking market in the Philippines has come of age. Consumers today have more options when it comes to accessing the all-important services. Increasingly, there have been more …
The term ‘bar fine’ as a byword for prostitution could only be spawned in a country that has elevated euphemism to a fine art. A case in point is describing …
PAGPAG: The recent election of President Duterte’s allies will no doubt make his administration much stronger, bolster him in his ongoing war on drugs, and maybe even propel him to …
Election candidates have been urged to clear away their campaign materials and find new uses for the acres of plastic signs and tarpaulin. The Department of the Interior and Local …
Call it cruel, call it barbaric. I wouldn’t disagree. But cockfighting is a way of life in the Philippines, has been for epochs of time, and will not be going …
Foreigners who marry into Filipino families often complain of being seen as “walking cash machines” by an ever-widening circle of relatives. While some are happy to share their good fortune …
If you stroll around any park, underpass or public area in Hong Kong on a Sunday you are likely to stumble across a strange phenomenon. To the untrained eye it …
Hanoi is preparing itself for the upcoming summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump with flags, cocktails and a specially brewed beer. Yesterday (Friday, February 22) workers were spotted …
Next week President of the United States Donald Trump will meet with supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, to undertake the second summit between the …
When the place you live is built on a rubbish dump, and the stench is so bad that they name the area “Smokey Mountain”, then you might say that your …
The first Filipina to feature in a Victoria’s Secret fashion show has been criticised online for her “Eurocentric features”. Kelsey Merritt, who was born and raised in Pampanga before moving …
Many analysts have seen China’s rapidly growing naval power as a sign that Australia needs to rethink its defence strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. Indeed, China has made remarkable strides …
China’s economic expansion into the Pacific Islands region raises critical questions for both the islands and Australia. What happens if infrastructure loans by Chinese banks and authorised state enterprises to …
Tom Fowdy, a postgraduate student of Chinese studies at Oxford University, gives his take on this week’s meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un… Despite fears and upsets, the …
“There is a real prospect of securing a peace regime on the Korean peninsula, however, the narrative Kim Jong-un had unilaterally capitulated to American demands in fear of the Trump …
“Kim Jong-un’s shift towards diplomacy should not be interpreted as a capitulation to American demands, but a calculated strategy in dealing with President Trump’s bellicose approach. Utilising well-versed tactics of …
Having been coming to the Philippines and Manila for many years its been funny to witness what everyone else describes as economic growth. Anybody with eyes can see that there …
This week, we reported how the government’s socioeconomic planning agency announced that the Philippines could become an ‘upper-middle class’ country by the end of next year. Here, Dwayne Krasko explains why he …
For almost five months, 21 million people in the southern Philippines have been living under martial law. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in the province of Mindanao in …
Picture the scene: It’s 1976 and Adolph “Dolph-Dolph” Hitler has just been made vice-chancellor of Germany, in what many see as one of the biggest and most unlikely political comebacks …
It’s been difficult to figure out the logic of Kim Jong Un’s recent nuclear grandstanding — many simply dismiss his actions as either madness or a deathwish. So, to make …
On August 8, 1967, foreign ministers from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines signed the Bangkok Declaration to create the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN, as it …
In this contributed editorial by Richard Jalkebro of Scotland’s University of St Andrews, the author argues that while the war on drugs continues, the nation’s fights on other fronts – …