MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine politicians launched their campaigns on Tuesday in a wide-open race for the presidency, with poverty, corruption and unemployment the top issues for the impoverished Southeast Asian archipelago. Elections in the Philippines are always colorful and typically marked by fraud and violence, but voters are hoping to turn over a new leaf after the scandal-plagued administration of President ...

Campaign posters went up and jingles blared at election rallies Tuesday as the Philippines' richest politician and the son of its democracy icon began a tight race to succeed scandal-tainted President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Senators Manny Villar and Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III — son of the late Corazon Aquino — are promising a ...

A human rights group protested Sunday the arrests of dozens of suspected communist guerrillas accused of bomb-making near the Philippine capital, saying that those detained were in fact volunteer health workers. About 100 army troops and police arrested the 43 men and women in a raid early Saturday of a residential compound in Morong township east of Manila. Military officials ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine politicians begin campaigning on Tuesday in a wide open race for the presidency, with voters looking for a clean face after the scandal-plagued administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The latest opinion poll shows two opposition lawmakers are neck-and-neck for the May 10 presidential election, but analysts say it is too early to establish a two-horse race ...