Philippine reserves fall to four-year low of $97.4 billion
The country’s gross international reserves (GIR) fell to $97.4 billion at the end of October from $99.5 billion in September, reaching their lowest level in…
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Philippine Politics 2025
Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on Philippine Politics 2025.
VP Duterte weathers partisan flak, intrigues
The 2025 impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte reshaped Philippine politics, highlighting controversies over confidential funds, legal challenges, and the…
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Political tempest — quo vadis Philippines?
Foreign investors have turned away from the Philippines, putting the stock market into what seems to be an eternal slumber.
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Claire Castro’s many faces
Atty. Claire Castro has the voice, wit, and will to command a room. What she needs now is the self-restraint to remember who she’s speaking for and who she’s…
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Winners and losers
Although there is a seeming commitment to hold everyone liable, the magnitude and complexity of the issue would not allow that.
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Budget insertion loophole: A betrayal of public trust
It requires the courageous use of the veto power in the next budget cycle and the public naming and shaming of those who orchestrated this betrayal.
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House chases tail
The vote was unanimous, and the ruling was unequivocal about the one-year bar that the House breached.
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Inday’s fitness for president under trial, says law dean
Constitutionalist Amado Valdez says Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment could become a referendum on her presidential fitness, highlighting political and…
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Sara says family funds Hague visits
Vice President Sara Duterte clarifies that family visits to former President Rodrigo Duterte in The Hague are funded privately amid ICC trial and denies…
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Castro bristles at calling Sara trial a ‘witch hunt’
‘Because this is a constitutional process which must proceed to find justice not for the complainants but for the Filipinos. If it’s an acquittal, we should…
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Epic blunder
The mobsters are now presenting themselves as a logical option by keeping pressure on the feuding camps.
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Rift’s global dimension
While most Filipinos were generally favorable towards Duterte’s drug war as it introduced a general peace on the streets, they were also uneasy about the…
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Dose of pragmatism
Duterte supporters’ disavowal and resentment of Manang Imee for her role in brokering the now defunct UniTeam have made them lose sight of the fact that she is…
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