This Q&A presents legal arguments opposing the view that the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte is lawful.

The legal team of former President Rodrigo Duterte has formally contested the jurisdiction of the International Criminal ...

IN recent days, Sen. Imee Marcos has loudly protested the arrest and transfer of former president Rodrigo Duterte to the ...

China and the Philippines have each unfurled their national flags on tiny sandbars in the South China Sea, staking competing sovereignty claims in strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint for ...

New Zealand Defence Minister Judith Collins will travel to Manila this week to sign the Status of Visiting Forces Agreement ...

With the passing of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church is preparing for a new conclave to elect his successor. Among the ...

an associate professor at the University of the Philippines' political science department. "Local chief executives have discretion when it comes to how to allocate the funding, which projects, ...

Philippines election hopefuls like mayoral candidate ... priorities," he said. Rule of law that becomes weaker the farther one gets from Manila also means that regional powerbrokers can act ...

Scores of penitents whipped themselves bloody under a scorching Philippine sun while others were nailed to crosses in a polarising Good Friday tradition drawing the most extreme of Catholic devotees.