The rock that freed Reed Bank from dispute
It seemed like a simple question: "Is Itu Aba a rock or an island?"
It seemed like a simple question: "Is Itu Aba a rock or an island?"
Hindi ito ang unang pagkakataon na kinuwestiyon ni Dela Rosa ang pagkakasangkot ng ICC sa paghahangad ng hustisya ng mga biktima.
Umatras ang DepEd sa paninindigan nito noong Abril na hindi kaagad maibabalik sa lumang academic calendar ang mga pampublikong paaralan.
The DepEd has backtracked on its stand in April that public schools cannot immediately revert to the old academic calendar.
There are those who caricature the Alice Guo issue as an exercise in racial discrimination against nationals of the People’s Republic of China. The exaggeration is so detached from ground reality.
Congress should act swiftly on a bill that will ease the registration of births, marriages and deaths of Filipinos and penalize those who take advantage of the system's weaknesses.
Unlike the claim of China and former president Rodrigo Duterte, the 2016 arbitral ruling on the South China Sea is not “just a piece of paper.”
Retired associate justice Antonio Carpio renewed his call for the Philippines to “pile up more arbitral awards” against China to negate its “baseless and expansive” claim of almost the entire South China Sea.
Retired chief justice Hilario Davide asserts that absolute divorce violates select provisions of the 1987 Constitution, but former associate justice Conchita Carpio-Morales argues that conditions of the supreme law should consider realities of domestic abuses and family problems.
The biggest impact of the ruling, Bensurto reminded, is that "we were able to prove China wrong" at a sound and legal tribunal.