Philippines: Marcos Wins Midterms, Duterte’s Strong Showing Shakes Power

Home Asia Philippines: Marcos Wins Midterms, Duterte’s Strong Showing Shakes Power An unofficial tally indicates that four Duterte-aligned candidates will secure seats in the upper house, potentially influencing an impeachment trial with 24 Senators acting …

Dutertes resurgent in Philippines midterm elections battle

With a two-thirds majority needed to convict her and ban her from office for life, Duterte would need only nine votes to be exonerated. “If that happens, she will come out strong and that’s a boost for her presidential bid,” said Aries Argugay, a political …

Duterte wins mayorship from Hague prison in Philippines elections

13 Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has won the mayorship of the city of Davao, despite being in detention thousands of miles away in The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity, according to preliminary results. After 80 percent of the votes …

Philippines launches app for maternal and child nutrition monitoring

The app allows local governments to collect data based on key indicators. The Department of Health (DOH), through the Philippine Multisectoral Nutrition Project, has launched the Household Convergence Scorecard (HCSC) mobile application to improve health …

Volcanoes in Hawaii, Sicily, Philippines are erupting. Time to visit?

There are around 450 active volcanoes in the Pacific Ring of Fire - 127 in Indonesia alone. In 2010, the Merapi on Java erupted, shooting clouds of ash 18 kilometres up into the sky. The area surrounding the volcano had already been evacuated days before, …

The Philippines’ Midterm Massacre

By: Manuel L. Quezon III “Such a puzzlement!” Marcos Jr. casting his vote in a meme-worthy moment. On May 12, Filipinos conducted an exercise they’ve regularly done since 1938: they held a midterm referendum on the sitting president. The result, pass or …

Fox News can get Smartmatic records about Philippines bribery case, court rules

Imprisoned in the Hague, a Former Philippines President, Rodrigo Duterte, Wins Election, Becoming Mayor of Country’s ...

A former Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, is now in charge of governing the country’s largest city outside Manila from his cell more than 7,000 miles away, at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Mr. Duterte, hustled to the Hague in …

Gstar Solar begins production at 1.5/1GW solar cell and module plant in the Philippines

In a second phase, the company expects to add 2GW of module annual nameplate capacity at its plant, located in the Subic Bay, although the company did not disclose when the second phase would be operational. The modules produced at the manufacturing plant …

Thomas Markle's life in sweltering Philippines - £500-a-month flat and reason for move

Thomas Markle Snr, the estranged father of the Duchess of Sussex, is now living in a £500-a-month high-rise apartment on the island of Cebu in the Philippines, where he is being looked after by his son, Thomas Markle Jnr. Now 80, Thomas Snr has relocated …