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In justifying the unilateral abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND Accord and the re-entry of police patrol forces in the University of the Philippines (UP) campuses to quell the alleged recruitment by communist rebels, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana mistakenly claimed that every barangay in Metro Manila has a police precinct.
The title of this column is borrowed from Jose Rizal’s masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, which historian Ambeth Ocampo best explained in his 2016 opinion piece to mean “one is pretending not to appear interested in something, though in reality one is desperate to have it.”
The deferment of the implementation of the “Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act” does not mean that the two-year-old law is taking a back seat.
This is not the first time the video of the August 2020 Bonoua protest was used in a wrong context.
On January 31, 2021, Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa told the press that he was optimistic he will soon have a new US visa. A year earlier, he confirmed to the media that his US visa was canceled. Neither he nor the US embassy in Manila said why and when it happened. The senator surmised that his role in Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war may have been the reason behind it.
By “living like a UP student,” graduates of the University of the Philippines can help defend academic freedom from a threat of military interference, a group of alumni agreed during an online forum on Thursday.
The site that published the hoax masquerades as a legitimate site of the GMA news program 24 Oras.
This is a malicious spin on an actual statement made by Elago.
The Davao city mayor has made no such announcement.
Sa kanyang mga social media account noong Peb. 1, mali ang datos na binanggit ni dating senador Antonio "Sonny" Trillanes IV tungkol sa coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination program ng Israel.
