No longer in the dark
The Philippines you love has become harder and harder to embrace because it is run by people who do not love it as much as you do.
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The Philippines you love has become harder and harder to embrace because it is run by people who do not love it as much as you do.
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Institutional foundations required for the country to govern itself are being swiftly eroded by the intense political rivalry between two powerful partisan…
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The survival of democratic institutions as respected pillars of governance depends on whether they can recover the qualities that once defined them.
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If you look at the Senate these days, what you see is not exactly an institution radiating gravitas. You see hyper-partisanship.
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As the old adage goes, the best laid plans will fail if executed by morons. And fail the plans did, in spectacular fashion.
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Men carrying rifles flooded stairwells as senators disappeared behind locked doors and whispered instructions.
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Before Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano can worry about being charged with obstruction of justice, he may first have to survive growing rumblings of a…
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'The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine, no specific treatment.'
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While electricity consumption grew by about 140 percent from 2003 to 2024, transmission lines increased by only 11 percent.
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A breakdown in governance was how a veteran former senator bluntly described the chaos that erupted last Wednesday over the attempted arrest of Senator Ronald…
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The only way to break the cycle is to realize that the hero we’ve been waiting for is us.
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Many suspect that the trail of the public works corruption is being covered up with the noise that is being generated.
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It is a difficult problem to resolve, as land is limited and funding is constrained, particularly for infrastructure that does not generate direct financial…
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has cautioned that the Philippines is increasingly showing signs of stagflation as soaring oil prices and…
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The proposed $1.75-billion financing package comes on top of some $2 billion in policy-based loans already being prepared by the multilateral lender for the…
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Never in the history of mankind has there been a need on a planet level to alleviate poverty, share with our neighbors, fend off anarchy, and develop…
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Countries are tapping into oil inventories and strategic reserves at a “record pace” due to the “unprecedented” supply disruptions caused…
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Iran has largely blocked shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
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