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Advocates help youth fight back vs. tobacco industry influence

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By Diana G. Mendoza

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Jun 23, 2025

The youth, which is the target of the tobacco industry's so-called novel products, is also being tapped by health advocates to be their partners in the anti-tobacco campaign.

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FACT SHEET: Impeachment in the Philippines through the years

Fact Sheet

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By Rhoanne De Guzman

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Jun 6, 2025

As the nation awaits the resolution of whether Vice President Sara Duterte's trial could proceed during the 20th Congress after it convenes in July, let's look back at the history and timeline of impeachment cases in the country.

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Make it make sense: Duterte numbers and the blame BBM train

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By Katrina Stuart Santiago

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May 29, 2025

In truth, between the Duterte arrest in March, across the 2025 campaign, and through to the present, a content bucket that has constantly been filled is that one that speaks of Duterte as the Pinoy every man, the Juan dela Cruz, who became President. This is further dispersed across smaller content buckets, each one filled deliberately and strategically, and then mass dropped on Tiktok accounts that grow almost by the week.

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FACT SHEET: From Manila to The Hague and back to Davao: Can Duterte swing it?

Fact Sheet

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By Psalm Mishael Taruc

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May 22, 2025

With former president Rodrigo Duterte detained in ICC custody, legal uncertainties rose amid unprecedented conditions when he was elected mayor of Davao City in the May 12 midterm elections.

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Sara Duterte impeachment trial: first round in the 2028 presidential contest

PHL Vote 2025

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By Ellen Tordesillas

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May 18, 2025

Prominent lawyer Lorna Kapunan said last week’s election showed an enlightened electorate. The results were both an appeal and demand to current as well as aspiring political leaders for respect. It’s a notice as well to the senator-judges in the Duterte impeachment trial.

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FACT CHECK Online Posts

FACT CHECK: Video, photos of protesters calling for Escudero’s resignation are AI-generated

A fake video posted on Facebook shows protesters calling for Senate President Francis Escudero's resignation. The video was generated using artificial intelligence.

Multimedia News

The TikTok campaign to rebrand ‘POGO Mayor’ Alice Guo

When Alice Guo rolled her eyes in Congress, a wave of TikTok “fan accounts” turned that moment into “napindot na si anger”—and helped recast her image just as she faced serious allegations.

Commentary

Sara Duterte’s ambag to nation building

It is quite disgusting to see and hear the vice president either ranting against the government or trying to be cute with her remarks and body language to endear herself to her audience, speaking spontaneously, oftentimes blabbering, with empty rhetoric without offering doable solutions to problems.