December 31, the last day of the year, has often served as a day of closure, decision, and transition in Philippine history.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he meets members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila on August 30, 2020.

I ALMOST didn’t make it [to Oxford],” a visiting Nepalese scholar told me, with the sun gently filtering through the glass walls behind. “They burned all the documents across government offices,” ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed that he killed three men during his time as mayor of Davao city, despite officials trying to downplay an earlier admission. Duterte's comments might ...

A chronicle of the three points of a political triangle — the legal left, the illegal (armed) revolution, and the enemy which threatens them both: the armed reactionary right. It is 1987. The ...

The CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines) has not only abandoned peace talks (as of early 2018) but is trying to revive its military force in the Philippines (the NPA or New People’s Army) with a ...

August 25 honours the bravery and sacrifices of Filipino heroes who fought for freedom August 25, 2025, is celebrated in the Philippines as National Heroes Day, a regular public holiday. In Tagalog it ...

For frequent flyers travelling in and out of the Philippines, September can’t come soon enough. That’s when the state-owned operator of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), Metro Manila’s ...