Philippines Offshore Gambling Operators (POGOs): Off-putting
Teresita Ang See
The high-profile case involving Alice Guo has uncovered a raft of issues related to offshore gambling operators in the Philippines.

Teresita Ang See
The high-profile case involving Alice Guo has uncovered a raft of issues related to offshore gambling operators in the Philippines.
JC Punongbayan
Metro Manila’s road congestion woes can be solved. But they have been hampered by slow implementation and weak political will.
Outlook 2025
Ian Storey
The prognosis for tensions in the South China Sea dispute this year is pretty straightforward: what has been and is will continue to be so, and perhaps even worse.
JC Punongbayan
The education system in the Philippines is floundering. It is time to implement some urgent reforms, such as addressing the spending gap and decentralisation.
Josiah Patrick P. Bagayas
Networks of patronage continue to propagate abuses by fraternities in the Philippines. These networks should be dismantled.
Yasmira P. Moner|Aries A. Arugay
The May 2025 BARMM elections will not only decide the fate of the conflict-ridden region but also test whether its rules can effectively reduce the dominance of political dynasties.
Lye Liang Fook
China has filed reports on environmental protection in the South China Sea to counter the Philippines’ claim of severe damage to the marine ecosystem at Scarborough Shoal and thwart Manila’s effort to file a legal case against China. But Beijing’s efforts provoke some serious questions about its motivations.
Aries A. Arugay
William Choong, Fulcrum’s Managing Editor and ISEAS Senior Fellow, discusses the recent Japan-Philippines reciprocal access agreement with Dr Aries Arugay, the coordinator of the institute’s Philippines Studies Programme, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, at the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
Joanne Lin|Sharon Seah
Laos, the current chair of ASEAN, has found that it has to grapple with increasingly contentious geopolitical issues.
Lye Liang Fook
Although China and the Philippines have resumed bilateral talks, they are far from addressing their differences over the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea.