Asia Sentinel

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Despite votes to be counted, the President wins his mandate

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Referendum on PNoy goes Aquino's way except ... it's Mayor Erap!

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Best way is to get the region's farmers off the farm and into the city

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Making Aquino a target could backfire on the clerics

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SEC circulates new, more restrictive rules on foreign shareholdings

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Church now going after lawmakers personally at the ballot box

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Aquino doesn't want to look soft

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Global financial crisis drives the region closer together, ADB says

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Law voided until June 14 oral arguments

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The new Pope is only disguised as a non-European

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The Doctor will see you now

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The Catholics are having a hard time. Maybe they need an atheist CEO.

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The recent "occupation" of Malaysia's Sabah state by Filipino Muslims has its roots in a long, bloody and unresolved history

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Allegations of aid politicization in Philippines ahead of elections

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Decades of neglect, corruption and recent delays mean the Philippines is far behind the rest of Asia

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New pastoral letter denounces government

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Institutional racism at play in tourism blacklist

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The disaster unleashed by Super Typhoon Pablo leaves the Philippines stunned

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The aftermath of Tropical Storm Bopha leaves a Mindanao tragedy

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Church lawyer files injunction in Supreme Court, big prayer rallies begin across country

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Danger lurks in the revelry

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The number rises depressingly, along with those imprisoned

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Passage is only the start. Now the legislation must be implemented

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Super Typhoon Bopha wasn't the only one this year. More to come next year

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Hundreds lost in a perfect storm

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A depressing impunity still rules

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The Philippine Catholic Church picks the wrong target, either by accident or deliberately

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Illegal Chinese mining results in billions of dollars of losses and environmental wreckage

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Bypassing Customs Proves Lucrative for Mainland Miners

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And President Aquino is right at the front

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At least three attempts to broker a peace have failed

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Catholic radio station's survey raises questions about church's power

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The Philippines stands out in Asia for its high fertility and poverty rates

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It isn't all the west's fault

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Philippine president dispatches loose cannon to Beijing, gets wounded

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Threat to the fishery could make it a one-way road

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A sophisticated plot attempts to frame a Canadian mining company in a fake murder scheme

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Human Rights Watch demands national probe of Davao extrajudicial killings

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Overfishing threatens a crucial industry

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Catholic Church goes all out to stop reproductive health bill

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Noynoy seeks to straighten out a corrupt, violent, polluting industry

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New commitment to family planning

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Community-level action needed

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China exerts its economic muscle in the South China Sea

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The case of the Maguindanao Massacre and those who committed it appears to be going nowhere

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Senate impeachment court convicts Corona

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Weakened Corona attacks lawmakers, President Aquino, almost collapses

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The decades of decay that Ferdinand Marcos delivered may be ending

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Ombudsman springs unexpected details of bank accounts

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The Scarborough Shoal standoff between the Philippines and China threatens to consume Southeast Asia.

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Chief Justice Corona's impeachment trial resumes, perhaps not a sure thing after all

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Rooting out the previous administration's corruption slows progress

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Maybe, but don't count on it

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A tiny farmer's cooperative provides hope for a way out of the cycle of violence

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Designed for assembly and re-export, instead they become efficient inland transshipment points

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Limited number of vessels allowed back into critical fishing area

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Some people will be forced to cope because they don’t have the economic or social means to adapt

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Thwarted from questioning court employees, prosecutors gamble they have enough on Chief Justice Corona already

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Once again, lack of disaster preparedness plagues the government

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Birds, bandits meet, with ominous consequences

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World Bank says it will probably get worse

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As they say, what would Jesus do?

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Filipino forces disagree on reopening migratory paths of the fish

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A Mindanao city becomes the world’s journalist murder capital

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Noynoy's gamble: Cleaning the stables or personal vendetta?

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US Defense Policy: Between wind and water

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Noynoy challenges Supreme Court Justice Corona to a showdown

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Aquino goes after Supreme Court Chief Justice in effort to nail Arroyo

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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo only has herself to blame

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Tougher action needed to end impunity in media killings

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A feud between two powerful political families embarrasses the Philippines

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The government hasn’t the funds to raise the ante against rebel groups

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Once-moribund New People’s Army poses a new and unexpected challenge

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Understaffing, outmoded procedures, corruption create a legal logjam

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A victory for the people who make the territory work

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Or maybe it was the questions that were inane

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Bureaucracy, drift, leadership changes slow vital construction, harming the Philippine economy

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New UN report indicates progress but says there is also cause for alarm

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Supreme court justice goes after a respected author

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…the tough check in for surgery

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Aquino’s leadership style at risk

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New Indonesian regulations imperil an important Mindanao source of income

Gloria checks into the hospital, suffering from back pain and corruption charges

Scandal could be opening for family planning bill

Some good, some bad, about what was expected

{mosimage}‘Witch hunt’ warns media over hostage coverage

{mosimage}Reflecting on an unlikely leader's quiet rise in a troubled country

{mosimage}It's probably too late for the lovable, sprawling Philippines capital

{mosimage}Despite the downturn, foreign workers will continue to have at least some jobs

{mosimage}Despite the downturn, overseas Filipino workers continue to send home the paychecks

{mosimage}The Philippines readies for next year's election

{mosimage}Asia's latest guide for foodies turns out to be less than reliable

{mosimage}The Philippines' bishops say no to a family planning bill that everybody else seems to want

{mosimage}The Philippines looks at the global economic crisis with mixed optimism and alarm

A botched agreement, domestic politics and insurgent violence threaten to renew war in the southern Philippines

The doomed ferry’s owner reacts to the tragedy by suing everybody in sight

With the Philippines buying rice and Indonesian smugglers willing to sell, price disparities are threatening budgets and destabilizing politics

A Hanjin Heavy construction project inside a protected forest raises a storm of protest

The global slowdown may mean a fall in remittances, the Philippine lifeblood, and an end to the party for the peso

President Arroyo is unlikely to be brought down by the latest mess, even if it does reach into her bedroom

The Philippines ousted former president is to get a verdict in his trial — six years after he was booted from office

Asia Sentinel Executive Editor A. Lin Neumann was recognized for Excellence in Human Rights Journalism at the 2007 Society of Publishers in Asia journalism awards for this piece on political killings by government forces in the Philippines.The article first appeared in the Weekend Standard in Hong Kong on November 11, 2006.

American-born Christine Gambito is becoming a star on the Internet with parodies of her immigrant family

Labor migration is a serious business. So when Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong protest against training reform at home, it’s about nothing less important than the freedom of trade.

Undernourished and neglected but happy, the Philippines’ Badjao face relocation. Their lifestyle may be poor but once on the sea they come alive

A fire in the election commission headquarters has turned the heat up on the current election campaign. Fingers are pointing everywhere.

Bowing to pressure, President Arroyo makes public an official probe implicating the military in extra-judicial assassinations

UN official forces the hand of the Philippine government over military involvement in extra judicial killings

The daughter of a warlord reflects on life and death in the province of Abra

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