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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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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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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‘These products are engineered for addiction.’
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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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Checks and balances must exist in every institution, including international law, according to former University of the East College of Law dean Amado Valdez,…
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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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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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‘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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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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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 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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For a practice declared illegal since 1974, endo, or the so-called 5-5-5 scheme, has shown remarkable staying power not in workplaces, but in speeches,…
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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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Senator Christopher “Bong” Go issued a challenge to the government’s economic managers, connecting a high-level Supreme Court debate over budget…
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The 2016 award also ruled that Reed Bank is a submerged feature within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
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He died because the line was too long, the relief too slow and the policy too cruel.
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Senator JV Ejercito on Monday advised his Congress colleagues to meticulously review the proposals to postpone the Barangay and Sanguniang Kabataan Elections…
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