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How the Marcoses handled an assassination attempt

Unlike Sara Duterte, Carlito Dimailig issued no threats and just did it. Fifty-two years ago this month, with martial law eleven weeks in effect, at around five in the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1972, Carlito Dimailig lunged at then First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos with a 12-inch bolo.

How the Marcoses handled an assassination attempt

FACT SHEET: The Philippines’ ties to the Interpol

The Interpol cannot compel Philippine law enforcement authorities to arrest an individual with a red notice. Its rules state that each member country can decide what legal value it gives to a red notice and the authority of their law enforcement officers to make arrests.

FACT SHEET: The Philippines’ ties to the Interpol

Revisiting Bongbong’s 1981 ‘New Jersey Turnpike episode’

There is something oddly appropriate about relatives of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.—namely his cousin, Philippine ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez and his sister, Sen. Imee Marcos—expressing concern about their undocumented countrymen being deported from the US under another Trump presidency, given that the American government once wanted a US-based Bongbong to return to his homeland following, of all things, a traffic violation.

Revisiting Bongbong’s 1981 ‘New Jersey Turnpike episode’

FACT SHEET: Mga alerto ng bagyo, sa konteksto

Sinabi ni Thelma Cinco, PAGASA Climatology and Agrometeorology chief, na malaking bahagi ng pinsala mula sa severe tropical storm Kristine ay dahil sa patuloy na malakas na pag-ulan, kaysa sa lakas ng hangin nito.

FACT SHEET: Mga alerto ng bagyo, sa konteksto