News for the Month

A spree of violence contrasted with presidential attempts at religious peace-making as the first week of July rolled on the blood of two mayors, two vice mayors, a councilor, and a radio broadcaster while President Rodrigo Duterte committed to mend fences with the...

June ushered the start of the rainy season, with Typhoon Domeng causing flash floods in Metro Manila and the northern part of the archipelago. CNN Philippines reported two dead and several sea traveling passengers stranded in the aftermath of the typhoon. In the news,...

  April Fool’s Day came on an Easter Sunday and in the aftermath of pranks and the Lord’s resurrection, the first eight days of April simmered in politics coated with political will. April 2 rolled with the recounting of the votes for the 2016 vice-presidential...

Sereno’s march to impeachment, DOJ surprises, and other fantastic gambits by Psyche Roxas-Mendoza The Ides of March, in the time of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, meant danger about to come. And it did come, in the whole month of March, for Supreme Court Chief Justice...

The first day of February turned Red with the arrest of National Democratic Front (NDF) consultant Rafael Baylosis. It was the first demonstration of police compliance to President Duterte’s order to arrest NDF consultants after the cancelling of the peace talks last November. The...

January opened with a growing frequency of reports on child deaths that the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) attributed to Dengvaxia—the first anti-dengue vaccine in the world developed by French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur. Dengvaxia translated into a P3.5 billion massive dengue immunization...