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In a time of increasing global pressures, the fight for truth must endure. Fact-checkers from different parts of the globe gathered in the historic capital city of Vilnius, Lithuania for the annual Global Fact-checking Summit to reaffirm this commitment.
International opinion supporting Philippine position will not force China to give back Scarborough Shoal to the Philippines. The Philippines has to initiate that. Does the Philippines then have the will to carry out an operation to liberate Bajo de Masinloc/Scarborough Shoal from Chinese control?
Even I am guilty of just blocking everything out and trying to live my own life, but the deaths of Alyssa Alano and the other students have shocked me out of my comforting bubble that I have isolated myself in. I saw myself in them.
New Senate Majority: Escudero’s presence enabled the Senate to proceed with the discussion of matters that are too important to be left unresolved and too consequential to be set aside.
At the very least, the red tag of Risa Hontiveros is insane. There never has been any judicial or official evidence that connects Hontiveros with the CPP or the NPA. Those who study the phenomenon of political spectra in fact see her as consistently aligned with center right and administration policies rather than the political left.
Talk is cheap. We should have learned that lesson yesterday. Our verbosity alone will not drive China’s ships away from our exclusive economic zone. Words must be backed up by a coherent strategy and determined responses that imposes costs on them. Recovering control of our waters, after it was given up by the Duterte administration before, will require a long, arduous and incremental campaign, one island at a time, one feature at a time, one mission at a time.
The audacity to ask for our tears when she shed not even a single teardrop for the thousands of voiceless Filipinos destroyed by state bullets in the bloody carnage of her madman Rasputin.
The decision of former president Rodrigo Duterte not to attend the confirmation hearings in his case of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Haque, Netherlands was a major factor in the May 22 decision of the Trial Chamber III to deny his request for interim release and for him to continue in detention at Scheveningen prison.
What Tulfo’s trenchant criticism failed to mention is that certain members of the government’s armed personnel are not only violent when they are performing their duty—they are as violent off of it and in dealing with hapless civilians. Sandatahang Dahas’s March 2026 data offer proof to these circumstances and to the alarming number of attacks against state agents outside of official operations.
About 96% of Filipino children aged 12 to 17 are online while at least two million children experienced online sexual abuse or exploitation in 2021 alone, according to a Rainbows in the Dark study, citing international data from End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism.
