96-peso miracle
The state’s statistical wizardry is breathtaking. If you lower the bar into the subterranean dirt, suddenly everyone is a high jumper.
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The state’s statistical wizardry is breathtaking. If you lower the bar into the subterranean dirt, suddenly everyone is a high jumper.
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TACLOBAN CITY — Northern Samar’s poverty incidence fell sharply in 2025, with nearly 12,000 fewer families classified as poor as more households moved toward…
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Former Partylist Representative Zaldy Co was charged with malversation and graft at the Sandiganbayan on Friday over alleged kickbacks from a P77 million…
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The suspects attempted to flee in a Nissan Terra but were cut off and apprehended by police.
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Authorities seized nearly P5.95 million worth of counterfeit food ingredients during a joint operation at a warehouse in Barangay General T. de Leon in…
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The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) is seeking an additional P700 million in funding to recruit more lawyers and support personnel to alleviate heavy workloads,…
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Practically every part of the coconut tree has value. It provides food, shelter, fuel, medicine, livelihood, and export income to millions of Filipinos.
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To maintain transparency and public accountability throughout the enforcement action, the Port of Subic streamed the destruction operations live on its…
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Nearly three months after filing a formal corruption complaint against a senior indigenous affairs official, leaders of the Mandaya-Manobos tribe say state…
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Members of several religious organizations gathered outside the Sandiganbayan on Wednesday to protest the anti-graft court’s decision granting provisional bail…
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We keep calling them ‘emergencies.’ How long can something remain an emergency? Christmas happens every year, we don’t call Christmas an emergency.
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Senator-judges grilled hostile witness Lemuel Ortonio over his supposed lack of diligence as chair of the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) bids and awards…
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A top aide to Vice President Sara Duterte told the impeachment court Tuesday the Office of the Vice President had asked for P250 million in confidential and…
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The milestone is genuine. But it was built on consumption, remittance, and a bloated services sector, while manufacturing withered.
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You paid P700 to enter a building designed to remind you that you’re above the poverty line, but still below the imported ham.
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The Sandiganbayan ordered Northstar Shipping and Marine Services Inc. to immediately vacate a Manila port property and pay P17.7 million in back rentals and…
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The administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. must face the reality of poverty in the country amid rising market prices, stagnant wages and a lack of…
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The government says poverty fell to a record-low 9.7 percent in 2025, but the number comes with a question that is harder to answer: How much does a Filipino…
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