Patronage politics is not necessarily an offshoot of Filipino culture and it is common in other Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, according to an American professor visiting the Philippines to study patronage politics during the elections.
A judge hearing a case of a 66-year-old Kiwi facing at least 20 years behind bars for estafa and illegal recruitment charges appealed to the New Zealand Embassy in Manila to assist its detained citizen settle his financial obligation to free him from jail.
War-weary and exhausted from a long journey, an overseas Filipino worker recently narrated how creative means of communication allowed her and four other Filipino domestics to escape the fighting in their neighborhood in Syria and make their way home.
Ryan Turallo, an Iriga City missionary who died when a boat sank off the Solomon Islands on July 28, never fulfilled his wish to surprise his mother with a gift—a refrigerator.
The Philippines’ ratification of a bilateral defense agreement with Australia reinforces the strong ties between the two countries, Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Bill Tweddell said Friday.
The remains of overseas Filipino worker Mer-An Montezor, 23, were finally brought home Saturday, 50 days after she was killed at a checkpoint in the strife-torn city of Homs in Syria.
In the age of new media and world teen idol Justin Bieber, “game change” has become the buzzword among advertising industry leaders, movers and shakers participating in the 22nd Philippine Ad Congress here.
CALIFORNIA-based Bicolano blogger Lorenzo Paran III has compiled over 50 essays capturing the experiences of a Filipino migrant struggling to assimilate into American life. Entitled “An Isteytsayd Life, Not-so-random thoughts from a Pinoy living in America,” Paran shares situational tales—some amusing, some biting—that are instructive for fresh Pinoys in that part of the world. The [...]
