Domestic and international pressures may compel Marcos Jr. to continue the planned upgrades to the country’s armed forces.

MANILA, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine Congress has allocated 40 billion pesos (about 673 million U.S. dollars) in capital outlays for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization ...

SENATOR Win Gatchalian urged the Department of National Defense (DND) to leverage a provision in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) that allows government borrowing to accelerate the AFP ...