By bno - Taipei Office The Philippines is a bit of an oddball in Southeast Asia: a country economically tethered to the ...

The Philippines’ top seat of power itself ... and Paolo Duterte is the city’s 1st district representative. Rappler maps these major political families, starting with the senators ...

In a contest between the scions of the country’s two most powerful political families, the struggle, tinged with corruption charges, has nothing to do with what Americans might have thought was the ...

(CNN)-- CNN was in the Philippines to cover the national elections ... had become even more like his parents: thrust into the political limelight to bring change to the country had wanted.

chairman of the political science department at the University of the Philippines. “Unlike in the U.S., she has no critical function here as vice president,” Mr. Arugay added. “So ...