For Andreo Calonzo's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Leni Robredo is attracting some of the biggest pre-election crowds in decades, but the question is whether the groundswell of support for her is too little, too late.
Logistical issues are relentlessly hounding vaccine rollouts in poorer countries, becoming one of the world’s biggest public health challenges.
As one of Asia’s most free-wheeling and online democracies, the Philippines is particularly vulnerable to misinformation campaigns and hate speech.
Most big-ticket projects funded by China have yet to break ground or haven’t been approved, with only three under construction.
Despite some of the highest rates of new cases in the world, recent surveys have shown vaccine resistance is prevalent in the region.
Daily infections rose to a record last week in the Southeast Asian nation, where one in nearly five COVID-19 tests comes back positive.
It appears that Beijing is probing whether Biden will take action after pledging to work with allies to deter Chinese assertiveness.
In recent months, his government has started to shift back toward Washington as Beijing has increased assertiveness in the South China Sea
The coronavirus pandemic is giving Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte a reason to reduce overcrowding in Manila, which in recent decades has swelled into one of the most heavily populated areas on Earth. Duterte is offering cash and goods to induce city-dwellers to move out of ...
Over the years, Rodrigo Duterte's regular rants about the U.S. appeared to amount to little more than bluster. This week the Philippine leader finally moved to dismantle an alliance that has endured since World War II. Duterte's administration on Tuesday notified the U.S. it would ...
