Compared with other economies in East Asia, economic growth in the Philippines has been disappointing. The Philippines was, notably, not described as a ‘high-performing economy’ by the World Bank in its 1993 study of the East Asian Miracle, while...

Philippine devotees re-enacted Jesus Christ’s suffering Friday by having themselves nailed to crosses in rites frowned upon by church leaders in Asia’s largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation. Fernando Mamangon, 37, was among the first...