For the Filipinos, it was all about the ongoing legal scuttle of the government against one of the media pillars of the nation, ABS-CBN. 

Censorship takes many forms.

A scholar looks into the two families' political, historic and social interconnections and finds there are important nuances to the alleged alliances and loyalties over the decades.

Seemingly without any semblance of cognizance nor of comprehension of good governance, the Duterte administration strikes again in another brazen display of power—to try to take away the franchise of ABS-CBN.

Despite the senior senators’ pleas to reconsider his plan of abrogating the 1999 Philippine-US Visiting Forces Agreement, President Rodrigo Duterte decided to scrap the 20-year-old treaty.