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Imelda says Bongbong, Sara 'have good chance to win'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 09 12:48 PM

Former First Lady Imelda Marcos wished her son Bongbong Marcos good luck as the campaign period for the national elections officially began Tuesday. Read more »

Imee: Marcoses unfazed by poll protests vs Bongbong

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 06 11:08 PM

Bongbong Marcos' family is unfazed by protests seeking to take him out of the 2022 presidential race, his sister said. Read more »

Robredo nagsalita ukol sa ranking sa survey, mga Marcos

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 21 08:47 PM

Aminado si Vice President Leni Robredo na mahina pa rin ang kaniyang mga numero batay sa survey, at malayo pa ang tatahakin niya. Read more »

40 years after Manila Film Center tragedy, labor leaders lament continued injustice

Josiah Antonio, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 17 09:18 PM

The $21-million Manila Film Center was a project of former First Lady Imelda Marcos in her bid to make Manila the "Cannes of the East." For 6 months, 8,000 workers toiled 24 hours a day, up until the opening day in January 1982. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: November 09, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 11:42 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Protesters want Imelda Marcos in jail

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 01:27 PM

Victims of martial law petition the Supreme Court to jail Imelda Marcos after being found guilty by the Sandiganbayan for several counts of graft. Read more »

Sandiganbayan orders bank to pay PH gov't P96M, $5.4M in Marcos ill-gotten wealth

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 28 09:54 PM

After 24 years, the Philippines' anti-graft court has ordered an allegedly Marcos-owned bank to pay the government around P96 million and $5.4 million in ill-gotten wealth. Read more »

Ferdie and Meldy’s house of love, lies, and loot

Miguel Paolo P. Reyes and Joel F. Ariate Jr., VERA Files
Updated as of Sep 21 09:14 AM

On November 26, 2020, Mayor Zamora previewed in a Facebook post what he calls the San Juan historical bike trail that includes the “Marcos Mansion.” Read more »

Sandiganbayan junks Marcos civil case involving estate of late businessman Ricardo Silverio

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 16 01:59 PM

The Sandiganbayan 4th Division has dismissed a civil case involving former First Lady Imelda Marcos and the estate of late businessman Ricardo Silverio for the failure of the Philippine government to present evidence on alleged ill-gotten properties during the Marcos regime.   Read more »

As Imelda Marcos marks 92nd birthday, ex-martial law prisoners say 'jail her'

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 02 09:26 PM

Political prisoners during the martial law era gave an unusual "greeting" to the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos' widow Imelda Marcos, who is celebrating her 92nd birthday.   Read more »

Imelda Marcos, 9 others awarded for promoting 'PH-China understanding'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 28 03:42 PM

Imelda Marcos, former First Lady and wife of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, was recognized, along with 9 other "laureates," for "fostering and promoting understanding" between Philippines and China.  Read more »

The big lie that elected Marcos president

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 05 12:40 AM

Over time, “For Every Tear a Victory” has been unmasked as a self-adulating autobiography masquerading as biography. For campaign propaganda purposes, then presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos commissioned this writing, definitively ‘restrospective myth-making,’ founded upon fraudulent claims of dramatic heroism.  Read more »

The Marcoses: A history of rejecting election defeats

Miguel Paolo P. Reyes, VERA Files
Posted at Nov 27 04:04 AM

One wonders if Bongbong’s insistence that he won the vice presidency is intended to help ensure that he could someday do for Ferdinand what Ferdinand did for Mariano. Read more »

In its new season, ‘The Crown’ makes fun of Imelda Marcos’ speech, among other things

ANCX Staff
Updated as of Nov 16 10:08 PM

The episode everyone's talking about. Read more »

It happened at the Pen lobby

JEROME B. GOMEZ
Updated as of Oct 20 09:12 AM

It’s where the powerful congregate—little surprise that movie stars, the social set, and political personalities figure in different eras of the Peninsula lobby’s more than 40 year history  Read more »

OPINION: Diapers, diamonds and dollars

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Sep 18 09:12 PM

There was once a sensational side event to the continuing universal all-media news coverage about that fall and flight of the dictator and his family. This ‘incidental’ event may well have been easily forgotten over time but Imelda’s purloined fortune cannot obscure much less deny what has been indelibly recorded and documented.  Read more »

OPINION: A eulogy for Ninoy

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Aug 21 12:19 AM

Ninoy Aquino had his dreams of Camelot. He died in the romantic pursuit of that dream. Read more »

Imelda Marcos documentary 'The Kingmaker' coming to iWant this August

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 31 12:10 PM

"The long wait is almost over." Read more »

Carlos Celdran's 'Livin' La Vida Imelda' to be streamed online

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 08 06:54 PM

The one-man show of the late performance artist Carlos Celdran will be streamed online this month.  Read more »

Ruben Varias Reyes, diplomat who questioned Marcos spending, dies at 79

Richard C. Paddock, The New York Times
Updated as of Jun 02 11:49 PM

Reyes challenged the excesses of the Marcos era, including family members’ expenditures in London on items such as Persian rugs, perfume and real estate, his daughter said. At one point, he blocked the purchase of luxury cars imported from Germany. Read more »