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Pro-Duterte accounts flood YouTube with rage-bait disinformation amid UniTeam split

Duterte, Sara fail to declare P100M investments, documents show

News

By VERA Files

Nov 14, 2024

President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter Sara omitted to fully disclose their joint deposits and investments at the Bank of Philippine Islands, which conservatively exceeded P100 million in some years, when they were mayor and vice mayor of Davao City, our analysis of bank records submitted to Congress and their annual net worth declarations shows.

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BBM’s fictional version of the Bicol River Basin Development Project

News

By Miguel Paolo P. Reyes

Nov 11, 2024

Since Bongbong took office, government propagandists have a track record of amplifying his and his family’s line that all went downhill after 1986, so it is necessary for a Marcos to course-correct the country.

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Peril to paradise? China-funded Samal-Davao bridge project raises worries over Paradise Reef damage

Earth Files

By Lucelle Bonzo

Oct 31, 2024

The sentiments of Samal residents have worried environmental groups and a family that has protected the island's reefs for years. The bridge construction will destroy corals and affect the pristine waters that make Samal beaches a favorite destination.

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Faulty land survey derails right-of-way, relocation for Malolos-Clark Railway

Earth Files

By Blanch Ancla and Nica Rhiana Hanopol

Oct 26, 2024

Inaccurate parcellary or lot boundary plans in the initial feasibility studies for the Malolos-Clark Railway Project led to a domino of right-of-way and land acquisition issues on the part of the Department of Transportation.

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Claims by Public Figures FACT CHECK

FACT CHECK: Duterte counsel claims on ICC probe, jurisdiction on drug-war killings FALSE

Salvador Medialdea falsely claimed "there was no mention" of jurisdiction in the 2021 ruling of the ICC authorizing the investigation of EJKs under the Duterte administration's drug war.

Arts & Culture

Naked Baguio

On extended run until Jan. 8, 2025 at the basement of the centrally located Baguio Convention Center, “Naked City: Futures from the Crossroad,” the visual arts exhibition that’s part of the recent Ibagiw Creative Festival, indeed strips from the city all those romantic, nostalgic notions and reinstates the significance of the once shunted indigenous peoples and culture.

Commentary

Gainers and losers in the ratified P6.35 trillion budget for 2025

The annual budget program, which is the single most important piece of legislation Congress scrutinizes and approves every year, has become a tool in aid of reelection, cunningly touted as pro-poor.