By bno - Taipei Office The Philippines is a bit of an oddball in Southeast Asia: a country economically tethered to the ...

Officially, our form of government in the U.S. is a representative democracy. This means citizens ... according to National Geographic. In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim ...

THE PHILIPPINES The CPP began its "peoples war" against Philippine democracy in 1968 ... support from Europe since the mid-1970s via NDF representative and former priest Luis Jalandani, who ...

On 2 June, in Manila, Kaja Kallas, the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy ...

If, however, we are set on using voting and representative democracy, there are still issues with how the Philippines does it that need fixing. The most obvious one is the presidential election, which ...

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, the Dalai Lama's representative for Japan and East Asia, wrapped up his official tour of the Philippines ... of freedom and democracy in resolving issues related to Tibet ...

The current political spectacle centred around Vice President Sara Duterte’s public threats against President Marcos, is a stark reminder of how fragile the Philippines’ democracy truly is.

conduct public hearings and submit recommendations to reduce polarization and strengthen our representative democracy’s effectiveness. The committee will examine a series of reforms to improve ...

HIGH-RANKING officials from the Philippines and the European Union (EU) recently engaged in a high-level dialogue to reaffirm their strong and growing partnership. The European Commission’s High ...