Editorial

DURING President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s first ‘State of the Nation Address’ (SONA) last July 25, 2022, Vice President Sara Duterte came in proudly wearing the traditional dress of the…
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FIRST, the “good news.” As early as February 28, 2022, an arbitration court in France has ‘instructed’ Malaysia to pay the surviving and legitimate heirs of Sultan Jamalul Ahlam some…
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WHEN it rains, it pours, so the saying goes and in the case of Rappler and its Chief Executive Officer, Maria Angelita Aycardo Ressa, better known as ‘Maria Ressa,’ the floodgate of…
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LAST June 1, 2022, the Senate, sitting as the ‘Committee of the Whole,’ submitted and approved in the plenary the result of its nearly 6-months of investigation of the smuggling…
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REACTING heatedly to a column piece by Dr. Mario Ferdinand Pasion at The Manila Times last Sunday, June 12, 2022, incidentally, the country’s ‘National Independence Day,’ the…
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RUSSIAN Ambassador to the Philippines, Marat Pavlov, said his country is willing to “cooperate with the Filipino side and to extend our helping hand to satisfy the needs in sources of…
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FRUSTRATED— and shamed by the electorate-- in their desire to install another of their puppet in Malacañang with the overwhelming defeat of Vice President Leni Robredo during the May…
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IT has been more than a week since the conclusion of the May 9, 2022, local and national elections, with most of the winners, save for the president and vice president, already known…
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NOW that the Philippine elections are now over, we would have hoped that things would be getting “back to normal,” in the sense that the issues—and personalities—that divide us all…
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WITH both presidential candidate Ferdinand ‘Bongbong/BBM’ Marcos Jr and vice-presidential candidate, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte maintaining their already insurmountable lead of…
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