No longer in the dark
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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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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The government is moving to place locally produced rice under a P53-per-kilo suggested retail price as authorities attempt to contain food inflation while…
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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 Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) extended its decline on Monday, falling 35.25 points or 0.59 percent to 5,941.52, as investors remained cautious…
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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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Senator Imee Marcos has filed a resolution seeking a Senate investigation into a sequestered government corporation for allegedly importing millions of sacks…
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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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Retail rice prices eased slightly in early May. Still, Filipino consumers continued to face higher costs for fish, vegetables, and other kitchen staples,…
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The government warned rice traders, retailers and importers that violations of the newly imposed price ceiling on imported rice could lead to imprisonment,…
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Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) and the Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Credit Policy Council (DA-ACPC) have launched a new financing facility…
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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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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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