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Protesters hold posters calling for protection of Indigenous lands amid growing number of development projects in the Philippines.
Environment
The Philippines is among the most dangerous places in the world for environmental activists
Men place their hands over their heads as they are rounded up during a continuing "war on drugs" police campaign of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila, Philippines, Oct. 7, 2016. 
Conflict & Justice
A rare murder conviction in the Philippines reveals a ‘broken’ justice system
A worker fills up a plastic container with gasoline at a gas station in Pasay, Philippines, Oct. 11, 2022.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Record-breaking inflation rates in the Philippines are pushing people to take on extra jobs
Bongbong Marcos holds up his hand in a celebratory pose as his wife and children look on
A member of the Marcos family is returning to power — here’s what it means for democracy in the Philippines
Boxing legend and presidential candidate, senator Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao greets the crowd in Pasay city, Philippines Monday, March 14, 2022. 
Elections
Candidates go ‘green’ on the campaign trail for Philippines national election
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, center, gestures as he greets his supporters during a motorcade promoting his presidential bid in the 2022 national elections in Manila, Philippines, Feb. 8, 2022.
Elections
Campaign season in the Philippines ramps up 
Medical Technologist Erika Alvarado performs a COVID-19 test on a patient who just delivered a baby outside a hospital in Manila, Philippines, on Dec. 24, 2021.
COVID-19
Health care workers in the Philippines reject new COVID-19 rules as ‘inhumane’
In this Oct. 17, 2014, photo, a worker walks at power plant area in Cirebon, Indonesia. 
Energy
Indonesia poised to ease export ban on thermal coal
Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa, right, stands in front of reporters as she arrives at the Court of Tax Appeals in Metro Manila, Philippines
Free speech
Nobel Peace Prize is ‘a testament to how truth prevails,’ Rappler journalist says
United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Philippines Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana shake hands after a bilateral meeting with their counties' flags behind them
Global Politics
Philippine president reverses threat to void long-standing defense deal with the US
A sole woman waits in an empty movie theater-turned vaccination hub for her vaccine at a mall
COVID-19
Filipinos hesitant about getting COVID jab after dengue fever vaccine debacle
A sole woman waits in an empty movie theater-turned vaccination hub for her vaccine at a mall
COVID-19
Vaccine hesitancy: A nationwide challenge in the Philippines
People walk wearing face masks and shields over a bridge near a mall
Critical State
COVID-19 and the limits of state power: Part I
Several Afghan security officials are show wearing body armor and holding weapons.
Top of The World
Gunmen attack Kabul University; Typhoon Goni’s deadly wake; Officials arrested in Hong Kong
Philippines residents use improvised devices to catch fish atop their house which is submerged by floods
In 2020, the courts will continue to be a player in climate change
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Arts, Culture & Media
How a Japanese girl-group empire is conquering Asian pop
Philippine's President Rodrigo Duterte speaks behind a blue podium in a white shirt
Does Duterte’s wrath against the Catholic Church have no limit?
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Technology
Sixteen rotors and a cloud of dust: Philippine inventor unveils ‘flying sports car’
Fire
Deadly fires are plaguing Manila’s tinderbox slums
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Conflict
After grisly murder, Kuwait and the Philippines face diplomatic crisis over domestic worker abuse
Two women hold pink and orange umbrellas as they carefully walk through a flooded area of dark earth, which is dark with volcanic ash.
Environment
As thousands flee eruption, heavy rains could create deadly mudflows around Mount Mayon
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Conflict
In fighting ISIS, the Philippines gets tangled in US-China tensions
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Conflict
In the Philippines, is ISIS here to stay?
herbs and potions to end unwanted pregnancies
Health
Inside the Philippines’ women-run crime ring selling abortion elixirs
Duterte drug war
Conflict
In Manila, government-sanctioned killings are the new normal
A relative of a victim cries behind the police line at the site of a recent drug-related shooting by unidentified men riding on motorcycles in Manila.
Conflict
Philippine President Duterte praises the police killings of 32, urges more
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Conflict
The Catholic Church defies Philippine President Duterte
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte checks the scope of a 7.62 mm sniper rifle
Global Politics
Critics call him ‘serial killer.’ But Duterte is still a hit in the Philippines.
There are close to 1,100 patients at Manila's Bicutan Rehabilitation Center, double its maximum capacity.
Justice
How to rehabilitate addicts in the Philippines’ vicious drug war?
Rallies
Global Politics
Mass rallies for and against the president of the Philippines erupt in Manila
Jennelyn Olayres hold her husband’s dead body, Michael Siaron, an alleged drug pusher killed by unidentified gunman in Pasay City south of Manila.
Conflict
The war on drugs in the Philippines is leaving hundreds dead in the streets
Jennelyn Olayres hold her husband’s dead body, Michael Siaron, an alleged drug pusher killed by unidentified gunman in Pasay City south of Manila.
Conflict
The war on drugs in the Philippines is leaving hundreds dead in the streets
Jennelyn Olaires, the partner of Michael Siaron whom police said was killed by a vigilante group in Manila.
Conflict
The rule of law in the Philippines gives way to more summary executions
A wall was transformed into a mural echoing the call of human rights groups to stop the militarization of Lumad schools.
Arts
This group exposes social woes and promotes Philippine culture through street art
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Health
How Filipino moms endure a maternity ward that’s like ‘a blaring supermarket deli counter’
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Health
The debate over ‘natural family planning’: Does it work?
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Development
In this Manila ‘baby factory,’ why women put up with crowding four to a bed
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Health
How this clinic has changed a nation’s view of family planning
Health
Catholic leaders battle against free birth control in the Philippines
Phillipine police block protesters from marching within sight of Pope Francis' motorcade in Manila on January 15, 2015.
Justice
How the Philippines hid social justice issues from Pope Francis
A woman in Plaza Miranda, outside Quiapo Church in Manila, sells off her dwindling stock of Pope Francis t-shirts in advance of the Pope's visit to the Philippines.
Belief
Filipino Catholics welcome Pope Francis with fervency, hope and souvenir T-shirts
Blood Bucket Challenge video
Global Scan
European youth have started the #BloodBucketChallenge
Health & Medicine
Why contraception might be a way out of poverty for Filipino families
Demonstrators holding posters march during a protest to demand higher wages for fast-food workers in front of a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Tokyo's Shibuya shopping and amusement district May 15, 2014.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Fast-food workers around the world stage protests over low wages
Jing Geronimo, inmate Roberto Maanyo, and their son Robert James outside the small shack the family shares on the grounds of the Leyte Provincial Prison on the outskirts of Tacloban.
Development & Education
In typhoon-hit Tacloban, some families have moved into the local prison
The Vergara family is rebuilding a home on the site of the one devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, using lumber and corrugated tin gathered from the wreckage.
Development & Education
This simple story shows what it means for survivors to rebuild their lives after Typhoon Haiyan
The islands of the Visayas region were impacted by Typhoon Haiyan.
Development & Education
This is why getting aid to survivors of Typhoon Haiyan is so slow and difficult
US Marines raise the American flag for the last time at Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines, as their Philippine counterparts raise their ensign for the first time, at the start of the base de-activation ceremony, November 24th, 1992.
Global Politics
Here’s the backstory on why the US has such close ties to the Philippines
Environment
Survivors describe the heartache left by Typhoon Haiyan
A Spanish galleon
Business, Economics and Jobs
When superpowers default, history remembers
Business, Economics and Jobs
Some Filipino call center workers turn schedules upside down, embrace U.S. time
Business, Economics and Jobs
Living on Call Center Time in the Philippines
Development & Education
Filipino domestic workers flee war in Syria, return home to no work
Lifestyle & Belief
Catholic priests in Philippines bring Mass to shopping malls to meet the people
Development & Education
Asia Development Bank imagines fleet of electric trikes to help Manila
Health & Medicine
New contraception law in the Philippines indicative of decline of Catholic Church influence
Global Politics
Jollibee fast food brings taste of Philippines to diaspora
Business, Economics and Jobs
Protecting Filipino workers everywhere
Arts, Culture & Media
Sinatra’s ‘My Way’: Deadly karaoke in Philippines
Business, Economics and Jobs
Filipino Domestic Workers Flee War in Syria, Return Home to No Work