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 ...

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

On Thursday, more than 10 years after the massacre, a court in the Philippines found several members of a powerful political clan guilty in the attack. The court in Quezon City outside Manila gave ...

(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.

The political crisis in the Philippines reached fever pitch yesterday as President Joseph Estrada faced a tidal wave of protests over the abrupt and indefinite Senate suspension of his corruption ...