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A prominent disability organization has urged president Benigno Aquino III to sign into law a bill granting persons with disabilities (PWDs) exemption from the value added tax (VAT). In an online petition posted last week on website change.org, Autism Society Philippines (ASP) called on the president to pass the bill “with the sense of urgency

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL PLATFORMS over personalities. Four months before the elections, a poll watchdog has urged candidates, voters and key stakeholders in the 2016 presidential elections to raise the level of discourse from personality-driven politics to an issue-based exercise. “The electoral players seem to be forgetting a basic fact: that the elections are about

IN their ecstasy over the Supreme Court decision declaring the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement constitutional and need not be ratified by the Senate, government officials are telling the Filipino people that the country is now in a better position to take on China in the territorial conflict in the Spratlys in the South China Sea.

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL CANDIDATES for the presidency and vice presidency will not be compelled to attend the nationwide debates the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is organizing starting next month, but the poll body says non-attendance is a message in itself. The debates will not only reveal how candidates fare in their specific fields, but

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE reply of China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying to the question whether China plans to declare an air defense identification zone over parts of the South China Sea, after commercial aircrafts conducted two test flights in Fiery Cross Reef, was most unsettling. She didn’t confirm nor did she deny the