MANILA, Philippines – Senator Loren Legarda, the first woman to chair the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, ...
THE Philippines’ Department of National Defense (DND) is pushing to remove restrictions on both foreign and local financing for defense acquisitions and to scrap the 15-year timeline governing the ...
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Financing freedom, defending sovereignty

FOR decades, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) survived on a year-to-year allowance while potential adversaries ...
Yesterday, the forthcoming State Visit of the President of the Republic of Korea (ROK), H.E. Lee Jae Myung, to the Philippines was formally announced.
The Philippine Navy ship BRP Davao Del Sur takes part in the KAMANDAG 3 naval exercise along with assault amphibious vehicles from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and the U.S. Marines, in Manila ...
Our soldiers are victims as well of the plundering political elite. They’re deprived of critical facilities and basic gear. Politicos divert AFP modernization funds to pork barrels. Floods wreck ...