VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post on energy-saving light bulbs causing migraines and anxiety NEEDS CONTEXT
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Yearly Archives: 2019
Small mines remain closed but a ‘Minahang Bayan’ may open soon
Typhoon Ompong (international name Mangkhut) barrelled through the highlands on Sept 15, 2018 and buried alive a community of small-scale miners who sought refuge in a bunkhouse and makeshift church in Ucab, Itogon town, not knowing it would be their grave.
VERA Files’ statement on PCOO’s #RealNumbers in Fighting Illegal Drugs
VERA Files stands by its Fact Check that Communications Assistant Secretary Maria Rafael-Banaag contradicted official government data on drug war when she denied that tens of thousands have been killed in the Duterte administration’s controversial anti-illegal-drug campaign.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos, Defensor-Santiago and Enrile ‘Don’t mess with INC’ quotes FAKE
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No, Isko DID NOT say he ‘doesn’t mind being a Duterte copycat’
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Isko Moreno DID NOT ban Muslims in Manila
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: The evolving Palace stance on allowing China to fish in PH EEZ
Watch how the Palace’s position on the issue evolved.
Carpio: SONA makes PH-China verbal fishing deal ‘legally binding’ but violates PH charter
If President Rodrigo Duterte makes a statement about his verbal fishing deal with China in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 22, then it would become “legally binding” under international law. But it would still be unconstitutional.
Locsin warns of “far-reaching consequences” as PH rejects UNHRC resolution to report on PH human rights situation
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin warned on July 11 of “consequences; far reaching ones” as he rejected the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution to report on human rights in the Philippines next June.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PCOO Asec. Rafael-Banaag contradicts official gov’t data on drug war
Communications Assistant Secretary Maria Rafael-Banaag contradicted what her office called the “only” official source of drug war data, #RealNumbersPH, when she denied that tens of thousands have been killed in the Duterte administration’s controversial anti-illegal-drug campaign.
