MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte will not lift martial law in Mindanao even if radical leaders and Marawi City siege instigators Isnilon Hapilon, Omar Maute, and Malaysian Dr Mahmud Ahmad are all ...

Amirah Ali Lidasan is a Moro activist who hailed from the Iranon tribe in Maguindanao. She is part of the groups Moro-Christian Peoples Alliance and Sandugo Movement of Moro & Indigenous Peoples for ...

MANILA: Philippine lawmakers voted to retain martial law on the southern island of Mindanao until the end of the year, giving President Rodrigo Duterte more time to tackle armed extremists allied ...

The president, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, whose father in 20 years as a dictatorial president imposed martial law, is ...

The long Christmas season cross-wires the Filipino psyche. The revelry, intertwined with the traditional financial burden of ...

The cartoons serve as reminders on unsolved killings, including the murders of Mindanao Observer editor ... Newspapers in Dipolog were shut down after Martial Law was declared and were only ...

The highest poverty rate came after the martial law regime. The country’s poverty index was at ... (from 9.3 percent); and Mindanao, 8.7 percent (from 12 percent). Ironically, Mindanao’s hunger rate ...

I like being with friends and I like the vision of this newspaper” ON FEB. 11, 2025, the Manila Standard will mark its 38th anniversary, and it has its ...

PATRIOT-parliamentarian Edcel Lagman developed a close friendship with Pampanga's second district representative Emigdio ...

It is a wonder Edgar Matobato is still alive. A confessed assassin for the Davao Death Squad, he was the first to go public about the killings allegedly ...

Know the fundamentals of impeachment. The vice president has already been impeached. Of course, she has not yet been tried by the Senate or convicted. The complainants may not have the support of 16 ...