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Habagat downpour didn’t deter members of groups opposed to Pax Silica, an international initiative to secure supply chains for advanced technologies such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence and rare earth elements.
For two days, Aug. 11 and 12, Commission on Audit supervising auditor Xylene Mae del Campo returned to a deceptively simple point: Acknowledgment receipts may show that someone received money, but they do not, by themselves, establish why the money was paid, whether the expense was authorized or whether a claimed confidential operation actually succeeded.
The accumulated garbage was actually a stark warning to us that if we continue with our lack of proper garbage disposal system and bad habit of throwing trash wherever we want, we would be buried under the smelly pile just like what happened in Payatas in Quezon City many years ago and in Rizal landfill early this year.
Although feeding programs provide relief, many children from low-income families struggle to sustain nutritious meals at home, leaving them vulnerable to stunting and its lifelong effects on learning and development.
Five weeks into the trial, the proceedings have become about more than the fate of one elected official. They have evolved into an examination of how the Philippine government accounts for billions of pesos in confidential funds and whether the existing safeguards are sufficient to protect public money from misuse.
Makapangyarihan ang pananahimik ni Bongbong Marcos sa kanyang SONA. Winawala, pinaglalaho ng pananahimik na ito ang mga biktima ng kanyang rehimen. Tinatago nito ang mga anak sa mga naghahanap nilang ina. Ipinagkakait nito ang katahimikan at katarungan sa mga biktima. Binubura nito ang kasaysayan ng dahas na una nang sinulat sa dugo ng kanyang sariling kamay.
While President Marcos on July 27 enjoined the nation not to yield against those who disrespect us apparently referring to the insult that Chinese-government controlled media made related to the West Philippine Sea maritime conflict, protesters not so far from the 2026 State of the Nation venue, were burning the American flag and effigy of Donald Trump.
And it is not about simply calling for the President to resign, or insisting on changing government altogether, as it might be about working within the limits of this democracy, and hopefully figuring out how we can keep it going, given the threat of a 2028 return to yet another Duterte for President.
Mima Alicia’s death was celebrated by the pro-Duterte universe as though killing is now of universal decorum worthy of praise. We lament the killing of a vlogger, but we weep for the death of Filipino values that are the real killers of the Filipino.
Retired associate justice Antonio Carpio reiterated on July 21 his recommendation for the Philippine government to ask the Arbitral Tribunal to add common fishing rules in Scarborough Shoal to its 2016 ruling.
