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Baguio’s proposed billion-peso market brouhaha looms large in midterm polls

PHL Vote 2025

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By JENARD T. SORIANO

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Apr 26, 2025

The redevelopment of the Baguio City public market has become a hot issue in the May elections and may cost Mayor Benjamin Magalong the seat he has held for two terms.

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A conclave is not a Miss Universe contest

Commentary

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By Antonio J. Montalvan II

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Apr 24, 2025

Filipinos should pray and hope for a cardinal not because he is Filipino but because he can best lead the Catholic Church in the direction it is discerned to go…One who can guide the church on faith and morals, and can successfully meld the spiritual and political role of the pope who is also the head of a sovereign state.

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Superstar High

Arts & Culture

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By Katrina Stuart Santiago

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Apr 21, 2025

The death of Ate Guy has filled our social media feeds with exactly the history that her Noranians live off, and it is one that too many of us failed to appreciate while she was alive, more focused as we were on the controversies and issues.

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Ano nga ba ang influence operations at FIMI?

News

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By Rhenzel Raymond Caling, Nica Rhiana Hanopol, Psalm Mishael Taruc

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Apr 11, 2025

Kasama ang reporters mula VERA Files, PhilStar.com at PressOnePH, alamin ang ibig sabihin ng Influence Operations at Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference sa video na ito.

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Chinese online platforms swirl with Duterte arrest disinfo

FACT SHEET: What’s the big deal about Google Maps and the West Philippine Sea?

News outlets and netizens noted on April 14 that Google Maps had more prominently labeled and displayed the West Philippine Sea (WPS) on its site.

Arts & Culture

Soothing the blistering heat wih music by the Manila Symphony Orchestra

The MSO season begins with the first concert “Music for Peace” on May 24 at the Aliw Theater, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the post-Liberation MSO concerts organized between 1945 and 1946. Violin soloist Emanuel John Villarin, a Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra pioneer member, will play Dvořák’s “Symphony No. 9 — From the New World” and German composer-pianist Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 61. Villarin will be coming home from Berlin, where he’s on a scholarship, to do the show with conductor Marlon Chen, MSO’s current music director and principal conductor.

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Heidi Mendoza: Running a national campaign with no machinery, little money, but… with sound sleep

Former COA commissioner Heidi Mendoza is bringing her fight against corruption to the Senate, but vows her end goal is to be a public servant, not a politician.