2025: Floods, fractures and fortitude
By the time 2025 drew to a close, the Philippines was grappling with more than floods and earthquakes — it was facing a year where politics, institutions,…
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By the time 2025 drew to a close, the Philippines was grappling with more than floods and earthquakes — it was facing a year where politics, institutions,…
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The most considerable turbulence in 2025 was the flood control project scandal.
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Amid the overall gloom of 2025, opinion makers still hold onto the prospect of a better year, anchored in the primacy of the law that is expected to emerge…
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Money doesn’t sit in one pocket. It percolates carefully, coordinated. Lawmakers insert. Contractors overprice. Engineers approve. Budget officials release the…
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By the time 2025 ended, the Philippines was not only battling floodwaters and seismic fear — it was reckoning with a year defined by political rupture,…
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Neophyte Congressman Javier Miguel Benitez of Negros Occidental said the ratified P6.7-trillion 2026 national budget was designed with stronger safeguards to…
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The Malabon Zoo held its annual anti-firecracker drive Tuesday, marking 35 years of advocating for the safety of animals and children during New Year’s Eve…
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In a way, the establishment of the ICI was like saying the National Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, and the Office of the Ombudsman were…
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What makes the cyber warrant especially powerful is its precision. Properly crafted, it is not a fishing net but a scalpel.
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Is there hope for systemic change in this country? Ultimately, the nation needs to see genuine justice rendered, not just a show of it.
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From flood-control scandal to athletes’ exploits, a year of extremes for the nation
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SEOUL (AFP) — South Korea’s former first lady was alleged by prosecutors Monday to have accepted lavish bribes totalling over $200,000, including fine art,…
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Credibility is greatly lacking because the government itself is conducting the investigation into the big fish within it.
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If 2025 had a defining theme, it was accountability. The public demanded it loudly yet it was offered unevenly by those in power.
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A slim majority of Filipinos want action now on political dynasties.
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Nanawagan si Batangas First District Representative Leandro Leviste sa Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) na ilabas sa publiko ang opisyal na kopya…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday warned that the struggle over the 2026 national budget does not end with its passage and signing…
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Malacañang on Sunday leaned into what critics have dismissed as a revisionist spin, insisting that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s warning of a “sad…
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