
South Korean oil tanker passes through Strait of Hormuz
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A South Korean oil tanker is currently passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s top diplomat said on Wednesday, marking…
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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A South Korean oil tanker is currently passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the country’s top diplomat said on Wednesday, marking…
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Tapping costlier diesel-fired power plants during the series of red alerts imposed in Luzon and the Visayas last week could trigger a slight increase in…
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A wave of nostalgia washes over me, of cherished memories associated with rain. Each drop seems to whisper tales of laughter and warmth, transporting me back…
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In journalism’s brutal, day-to-day reactions to events, the morbidities and monstrosities of our politics did make their ghostly, fleeting appearances last…
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A law without funding is not a law but a mere statement of aspirations that the government has chosen not to honor by marginalizing the Philippine Health…
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Foreign investors watching from Singapore, Tokyo, and Brussels do not parse the internal logic of Philippine factional politics. They see institutional…
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The danger is that the country becomes trapped in a cycle where politics consumes the national attention while governance and economic confidence suffer.
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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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