Bare knuckle fighting, anyone?
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Government in limbo
Acting like paragons of virtue and models of politics, the members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines were not of any help, but even sowed…
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Squandered opportunities
Serapio’s paper offers several interlocking explanations, starting with power being returned to the same corrupt institutions.
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HUMANS STILL ON TOP
AI is not something to fear as humans remain in control of the technology, according to digital marketer Paolo Florenda, who highlighted the importance of…
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Questioning the Senate
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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Greenlight Bato arrest, OSG asks SC
The filing marked the clearest signal yet that the administration is prepared to cooperate with the ICC despite the Philippines’ withdrawal from the Rome…
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Nicotine pouches risk youth addiction, WHO warns
‘These products are engineered for addiction.’
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No office is above the law
The credibility of democratic institutions depends on whether the powerful are willing to be governed by the same rules as the powerless.
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SC may require court okay for Hague transfer
Former law dean Amado Valdez says the Supreme Court may require judicial clearance before any transfer of Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa to the ICC, citing due…
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Uncertain time, uncertain acts
The ICC Justices, by their public statements and body language, are determined to convict President Duterte based on fabricated information and fiction to…
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A TALE OF TWO WORLD RECORDS
The traditionalist critics argue: if previous records were set without this level of technological assistance, then we are not comparing apples to apples.
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Balisacan rejects ‘Sick Man’ label return
‘The country’s economic fundamentals are far stronger than when the label was first applied to the Philippines in the 1970s’ under the administration of…
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Camping on that 4Ps bridge
The 4Ps was meant to give one a hand up, not a hammock or a lottery prize. It’s the government’s ‘fertilizer‘ to help you grow, but you still have to plant the…
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Filipino enough
Philippine citizenship is inherited through parentage, not geography. Bea Windorski did not become Filipino only when she obtained a Philippine passport.
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The arithmetic of dignity
The real challenge is not in choosing between minimum wage and living wage. It is in finding a way to connect them in a way that works.
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Endo is dead; let us stop pretending otherwise
A critique of the continued use of “endo” narratives in Philippine labor discourse argues that the illegal 5-5-5 scheme is largely obsolete, urging a shift…
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Foolishness of today‘s centurions
The Malacañang and House of Representatives political syndicate has gone into high gear to eliminate Vice President Sara Duterte, the lone threat to their…
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