FACT CHECK: Eating one malunggay seed daily does NOT cure over 300 diseases
A Facebook user claimed that eating one malunggay seed daily can cure a myriad of diseases. An expert in herbal medicine says otherwise.
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Imee’s murky identification with KB
The first KB elections were held on May 1, 1975. Those eligible to be part of the organization “shall be at least fifteen years of age or over but less than eighteen.” Imee was then 19 years old.
Davao City ‘ghost employees’ early funders of Duterte’s EJKs
The House quad committee (quadcom), which has uncovered gruesome information in its investigation of EJKs, is now into tracing the money trail that financed former president Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs.It would be helpful for the quadcom to retrieve the interviews given by self-confessed Duterte Death Squad leader Arturo Lascañas and member Edgar Matobato.
New music thrives in Pampanga
The music played by Sunlag is inspired by nature, Asian Traditional Music and the European Avant Garde in its textures, colors and compositional processes.
PHILIPPINES: Listening to the Deaf in the Climate Crisis
In a country at high risk of disasters, public messaging about natural hazards and the climate conversation do not quite reach the Deaf community. Efforts are underway to use Filipino Sign Language better, to connect with them.
A new twist on something old: Reviving natural dyes
Many ethnolinguistic groups in the country use three sources of colorants: yellow ginger or turmeric for yellow dyes, morinda or noni tree for red dyes, and indigo for blue-black dyes.
FACT CHECK: P1,000 monthly pension is for INDIGENT senior citizens, not all
A false advisory about a P1,000 monthly pension for all senior citizens in the Philippines is circulating again on social media.
FACT CHECK: Drinking water with calamansi for 120 days will NOT clean the liver
Neither hepatologists nor traditional medicine experts recommend drinking water mixed with calamansi juice to "clean" the liver.
No plastics: Recalling the early Filipino kitchen
Can you ever imagine living and cooking without electricity or running water? For a very long time, Filipinos cooked with firewood and charcoal in their smoky kitchen.
FACT CHECK: More FAKE ads for ‘bee venom’ cream circulate
Another fake Facebook ad about bee venom cream claims that the ointment was created by PGH and endorsed by a certain Renato "Waterdok" Paragas.
