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Seven multilateral development banks pledged to strengthen support for countries affected by the economic fallout from the ongoing Middle East conflict, citing…
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Seven multilateral development banks pledged to strengthen support for countries affected by the economic fallout from the ongoing Middle East conflict, citing…
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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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There’s a huge gap between what GDP measures and what people value.
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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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Employers are urging the government to prioritize economic reforms and national stability to restore investor confidence, boost investments, and protect jobs…
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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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Leaving the city, I carry both admiration and restlessness. Because once you’ve seen what’s possible, it becomes harder to settle for anything less.
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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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‘Government-wide, allocation releases programmed for the second quarter have so far reached P1.287 trillion, and it is a must that the social good that this…
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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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