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NEWS IN FOCUS / January’s blasts: Dengvaxia, Cha-Cha, firings, Rappler, and Mayon Volcano

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...

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Dance Macabre

The conversation anent charter change has taken a turn for the serious and you can tell by the way the newspapers are reporting it....

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Command Responsibility vs. Commanding Irresponsibility

To be goaded to question a legal decision is one thing; to be reduced to a speechless wreck is another. This, apparently, is where the...

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Fantasy Islands

Imagine, if you will, Harry Roque rushing alongside President Duterte to greet the administration’s Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion Law as it crests into...

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10 Best Philippines Graphic profiles under the Duterte administration

Davao City: In the eyes of a journalist Mayor Duterte is nowhere near Manila’s boy-next-door type. Political correctness has little hold on him. He spares no...

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Say I do

I’ve been wanting to devote a column to the happy betrothal of Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle. The Prince and the Showgirl was long...

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All downhill from there

Once you start a boulder rolling downhill, there is no hope of stopping it. It is equally hopeless to push it back uphill as...

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Q & A with Bulacan Governor Wilhelmino M. Sy-Alvarado

PG: As governor, what is your vision for the province of Bulacan? G: We envision Bulacan as a premier province with a vibrant economy, safe...

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Gov’t scraps talks with CPP, Yule truce in jeopardy

(Sung to the tune of Nat King Cole’s Christmas Song) Peace talks roasting on an open fire Armed troops fighting at the front Yuletide quarrels shutting down...

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President Duterte announces landmark outcomes of Philippines’ ASEAN Summit hosting

Manila successfully hosted the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and Related summits with President Rodrigo Duterte enumerating the landmark outcomes that benefit...

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