Hours before the President's SONA declaration, Filipino and Chinese diplomats simultaneously announced the arrangement they agreed on for the rotation and resupply (RORE) to the Philippine Marines stationed at BRP Sierra Made on Ayungin Shoal (international name: Second Thomas Shoal and Chinese name: Ren’ai Jiao).
When the president enumerates his legislative agenda in today’s SONA, he should also report on how laws passed since 2022 are being carried out, if they are implemented at all.
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.
