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Is Mayor Isko Manila's new 'Master Showman'?

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 10 04:03 PM

Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is now the Filipino local official with the largest social media following, pegged at nearly 2 million, a mass base large enough to catapult his political capital beyond his jurisdiction. Read more »

Kampanya kontra 'tolongges, dugyot' kaya bang panatilihin ni Isko?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 09 07:53 PM

Hamon ngayon kay Isko Moreno na panatilihin ang kaniyang estilo ng pamamahala, ayon sa isang eksperto.  Read more »

'Undocumented buildings, billion-peso expenditures': Sotto deals with predecessors’ transactions

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 09 12:58 AM

MANILA—Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto on Tuesday revealed more questionable transactions of his predecessor, many of which he had to address during his first 100 days in office. Read more »

OPINION: Implications of change in China

Edmund Tayao
Posted at Sep 02 08:38 PM

What happens in China, or anywhere in the world, will have a significant impact on our politics, the future of our democracy, and governance. Read more »

Terror or cool prof? Trillanes gives teaching a try amid opposition duties

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 22 09:59 AM

What is it like to have former senator Antonio Trillanes IV as a professor? Read more »

OPINION: What further decentralization?

Edmund S. Tayao
Updated as of Aug 07 08:52 PM

Let’s call a spade a spade. There’s no such thing as further decentralization!  Read more »

OPINION: Ruminating on the 2019 SONA

Edmund Tayao
Posted at Jul 29 04:42 PM

There is truth in what the president said in his SONA, that “…we have not risen above and beyond the parochial interests..." Unless we find a way to go beyond this limited purview, it will be difficult for us to advance. Read more »

OPINION: The Philippines circa 1920s, part 2

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Jul 20 07:04 AM

“The Isles of Fear’s” exposé and indictment also encompassed the tenure of Governor General Francis Burton Harrison. Ironically, from available history as we know it, Filipinos still rank F.B. Harrison highest in popularity among the list of American proconsuls assigned to minister to the Islands’ well-being. Read more »

Duterte institutionalizes incentives for good local governance

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 16 08:24 PM

MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law institutionalizing an awards program for exemplary local government service.    Read more »

PH gave me everything, says UP’s Cameroonian PhD grad

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 09 01:51 PM

Almost everybody knows Christel Arnaud Ngadima at the University of the Philippines’ National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG). Read more »

Ilang proyekto ng mga bagitong alkalde pinuri ng DILG

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 06 07:36 PM

Partikular na umano rito sina Vico Sotto at Isko Moreno. Read more »

Isko's first order: Livestreaming of Manila City Hall bidding, procurement

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 02 12:06 PM

MANILA - Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko" Moreno is pushing for a new policy that will ensure that procurement and bidding processes will be livestreamed on social media.    Read more »

Vico Sotto says mayor’s 'lavish' office stripped of ‘personal property’ of Eusebios

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 01 07:48 PM

MANILA - Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto revealed on Monday that the mayor’s office has been stripped of appliances and equipment like computers. Read more »

OPINION: Politics for development

Edmund S. Tayao
Posted at Jun 26 06:39 PM

What does it take to achieve development in the country? My experience working on local governance has led me to understand the critical role local governments play in development. Read more »

ABS-CBN kinilala dahil sa maayos na pamamalakad ng kompanya

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 21 08:43 PM

Pinarangalan ng Institute of Corporate Directors para sa mahusay na pamamalakad sa kompanya ang ABS-CBN.    Read more »

ABS-CBN among PH's top firms, only media network cited for 'good governance'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 21 04:50 PM

ABS CBN Corp. is among the top organizations in the Philippines and the only media network to receive a recognition for its outstanding corporate governance awarded by the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD).    Read more »

Experts call for calm amid PH-China tensions over sea ramming incident

Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 15 07:01 PM

MANILA — Business, political and security experts on Saturday called for calm amid renewed tensions in the West Philippine Sea following a Chinese ship's ramming of a Filipino fishing boat near Recto (Reed) Bank off Palawan last Sunday. Read more »

La Union town credits zero maternal mortality to training for women

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 30 10:32 AM

San Gabriel town's "Women in the Sitios" training program on family health began in 2008.  Read more »

Fil-Am activists in San Francisco protest overseas ballot delays

TJ Manotoc, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 07 05:41 PM

The Filipino American Human Rights Alliance and the US Pinoys for Good Governance banded together outside of the Philippine Consulate here clamoring for their ballots. Read more »

OPINION: 2019 midterm elections: Crossroad of Philippine politics

Edmund S. Tayao
Updated as of May 04 07:34 AM

I am voting for change. I am voting for federalism. I am voting for a change in the rules of the game. Read more »