Exploiting their claim to poverty
"Pacquiao and Moreno are guilty of these." Poverty alleviation is always part of every traditional politician’s platform. He promises a solution to the poverty problem,...
Read more"Pacquiao and Moreno are guilty of these." Poverty alleviation is always part of every traditional politician’s platform. He promises a solution to the poverty problem,...
Read more"Voters need to know." For the past two months, Manila City Mayor Francisco Domagoso, alias “Isko Moreno,” has been pursuing an early campaign...
Read more"The agency held both the Philippine government and the Filipino people hostage." To all intents and purposes, the election season has begun. Sadly, the...
Read more"The House bill will have this effect. The Senate should do its part." The House of Representatives of Congress wants to make all campuses...
Read more"These are BBM’s bashers." For today’s column, I originally planned to write a follow-up essay on Ombudsman Samuel Martires and his utter contempt for...
Read more"Don’t comment on the SALNs, he said." Last week, Ombudsman Samuel Martires announced that he wants imprisonment for at least five years for anybody who...
Read more"Such callousness should be condemned." Under the law, campaigning for the coming elections should begin only when the official campaign period starts. That’s still...
Read more"Parents send their children to UP to study and to finish college, and to become law-abiding citizens of the country." Two weeks ago,...
Read more"Senator Poe started from being a political nobody." Even as the campaign season for the May 2022 elections is still months away, Senator Grace...
Read more"Greetings to all." It’s August 21 tomorrow, that time of the year when the media revisit the assassination of Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr....
Read moreA Chinese Coast Guard ship maneuvered dangerously close against Philippine vessels on their way to Ayungin Shoal for this month’s...
Read moreWASHINGTON—Kevin McCarthy was axed Tuesday as speaker of the US House of Representatives in a brutal, historic rebellion by far-right...
Read moreSyrian Ahmad Ghousoon is punished by one of Eumir Marcial's many rights hooks. By Riera U. Mallari HANGZHOU – Michael...
Read moreThe House of Representatives will address legal concerns on the Maharlika Investment Fund law, Speaker Martin Romualdez said Wednesday, as...
Read moreThe Navotas City Regional Trial Court (RTC) has ordered the arrest of six dismissed police officers implicated in the death...
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