FACT SHEET: Why is government underspending a problem?
The Department of Information and Communications Technology topped the list of agencies that had low fund use with only a 5.6% utilization rate.
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FACT CHECK: TikTok influencer echoes First Gen claim that natural gas is the ‘cleanest-burning of all fossil fuels,’ which needs context
The United Nations Environment Programme notes that methane is a hazardous gas and is 80 times more potent at warming the Earth than CO2 over a 20-year period.
Human trafficking: Bakit pahirap sa byahero ang solusyon?
Kamakailan, naglabas ng listahan ng departure requirements ang Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking para raw protektahan ang Filipino travelers at siguraduhin na hindi sila mabibiktima ng mga sindikato ng human trafficking. Makalipas ang isang linggo, Aug. 31, sinuspende ito ng Department of Justice.
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Katapangan. Kabayanihan. Pagsisilbi sa bayan. Ano nga ba ang kabuluhan ng pagiging Medal for Valor awardee? Pakinggan ang kwento ni retired colonel Ariel Querubin, isa sa most bemedalled officers ng Armed Forces of the Philippines dito sa What The F?! Podcast.
Ang kalbaryo para sa mas ligtas na kalsada
Hindi nagkukulang ang Pilipinas sa mga batas at ordinansa para maging ligtas ang mga motorista at publiko sa kalsada. Pero bakit nga ba hanggang ngayon ay hirap pa ring maiwasan ang mga road crash dahil sa humaharurot na mga sasakyan at hindi maingat na pagmamaneho?
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Diokno’s outlook on debt-to-GDP ratio runs counter to that of Marcos
The day before the briefing, Marcos had raised his concern over the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio before members of the United States-Association of Southeast Asian Nations Business Council.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post on Cynthia Villar’s FB page that rice prices did not increase due to tariffication law is false
Since the Rice Tariffication Law was enacted in March 2019, local rice prices have gone up.
FACT CHECK: Sen. Revilla errs in claiming Imelda Marcos ‘instituted’ flood control tax
“The council and flood tax were clearly not proposals emanating from either head of the conjugal dictatorship,” according to the Marcos Regime Research Group of the UP Third World Studies Center.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos contradicts DFA, NTF-WPS on Ayungin Shoal
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. contradicted the assertions of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea that the 2016 arbitral court decision had declared the area as part of the Philippine exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
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