Massive protests were held on September 21 in Metro Manila and other major cities across the Philippines, denouncing large-scale corruption involving top officials in charge of the government’s ...

People appear to be getting fed up with the corruption of their politicians and all those in cahoots with them. This was the case with the recent political turmoil in both Indonesia and Nepal. In the ...

When the Philippines gained independence in 1946, it entered the world with high hopes and deep scars. Decades of foreign rule, Cold War pressure, internal insurgency, and political corruption made ...

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered yesterday in the Philippine capital, Manila, to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal that has implicated top government officials and ...

MANILA, Philippines — Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle sees the problem of corruption in the Philippines as part of a larger global trend of poor governance, warning that Filipinos risk insulting ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police arrested 49 people suspected of hurling rocks, bottles and fire bombs at officers and blocking heavily guarded roads and bridges leading to the ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Thursday that many of at least 37 powerful senators, members of Congress and wealthy businesspeople implicated in a massive ...

MANILA, Philippines — Thousands of demonstrators including from the Roman Catholic church clergy protested in the Philippines on Sunday, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

"Anti-corruption investigations in the Philippines have a long history of starting with thunder and ending with a whimper" ...