MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government has seized 15 paintings from the former home of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, part of efforts to recover 156 artworks — including ones by ...

The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) has remitted P714 million to the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) following the sale of a Claude Monet painting, which was sold by the commission and ...

Bongbong Marcos looks set to win election in the Philippines. His father was president from 1965-1986, and TIME covered the rise and fall of the family’s rule.

MARCOS: My countrymen, as of the 21st of this month, I signed proclamation No. 1081, placing the entire Philippines under martial law. CORONEL: Marcos' goal was to stay in power.

The commission traced the Marcos family’s assets across the Philippines, Hawaii and New York City, amassing a more than 8 million-page dossier and setting up a Manhattan office. That bureau peered ...

Key Background Before Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was ousted from the presidency after a popular uprising in 1986, he is believed to have embezzled as much as $10 billion from the nation’s coffers used ...