Filipino painters have often painted the rural landscape in bucolic settings: a nipa hut by a stream, coconut trees and bamboo groves, carabaos and their mud baths, or the planting and harvesting rice. They have also honored the Filipino farmers in their works.
American obligation to defend the Philippines in the South China Sea is a nothing-burger. The question for Filipinos is whether they would risk upgrading this obligation under a renegotiated MDT given the certainty of a conflict between U.S. and China for dominance in the region. The question for Americans is whether they would be willing to foot the bill with their lives on tiny rocks thousands of miles across the Pacific.
Aurora province is decidedly the bailiwick of the Angara political family. Eight Angaras have so far sat in various elective positions in the province and in its capital of Baler.
“Without an independent, self-sustaining media, it is impossible to guarantee citizens the information they need to oppose the government,” says Harvard prof Steven Levitsky.
World's fact-checkers assert that fact-checking is an act of free expression and not suppression of speech.
Unlike Gloria, who is an economist, Sara’s incompetence would only exacerbate the country’s current situation.
Inakusahan ni Duterte ang administrasyong Marcos ng pagpigil sa Hakbang ng Maisug prayer rally sa Tacloban, taliwas sa post ng organizers na kinansela ang rally dahil sa sama ng panahon.
More than slogans, songs or pledges, meaningful changes are realized when people see good examples and dedicated work from their leaders.
It was my nearly seven-year-old son, who occasionally plays “retro” (2000s) video games, who helped me figure it out. I was puzzling over why the so-called Bagong Pilipinas hymn seemed so familiar. While we were listening to the song, my son asked, “Why does that sound like the Wii Sports song?”
The most infamous of course was Station 6 in Batasan, Quezon City. Thanks to the Reuters report of 2017, the name Davao Boys became synonymous with the killing orgies done by police at the height of Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs.
