Archive - News Year 2017 all 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 Items per page 12 12 18 24 30 News Bohol town observes Holy Week with more passion after thwarted terrorist attack INABANGA, Bohol. – Residents of this tranquil town are going through real suffering as they join the Christian world in the observance of Semana Santa recalling the passion of Christ some 2, 000 years ago. By Cooper Resabal | Apr 13, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Does Metro Manila have the ‘world’s largest homeless population’? Militant group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay), a group fighting for free housing for the poor, says Metro Manila has the most number of people without homes in the world. By VERA Files | Apr 12, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: How much does President Duterte earn monthly? President Rodrigo Duterte made a fuss about the relatively low pay he has been receiving as president of the country. By VERA Files | Apr 11, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News Occupy Spratlys Was Duterte’s Occupy Spratlys order a reaction to the decline of the people’s trust in him as shown in the latest survey of Pulse Asia that he had to show that he is no lackey of China and he can stand up to the neighboring economic giant? By Ellen T. Tordesillas | Apr 10, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News MALAYA ROAD SAFETY SERIES: Bus crashes deadlier in provinces Why is this so? By RAYMOND GREGORY TRIBDINO | Apr 9, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are atheists not bound by family laws? Defending House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez from possible disbarment due to infidelity, President Rodrigo Duterte said non-Christians such as atheists are exempted from the “rules of the number of women (one) can have.” By VERA Files | Apr 8, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News Meet the fellows of the second Road Safety Journalism Fellowship Eleven journalists were chosen as fellows under the second Bloomberg Initiative-Global Road Safety Media Fellowship. By VERA FILES | Apr 8, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Duterte’s oxygen concentrator Photos of President Rodrigo Duterte showing a blue contraption beside his bed in his residence in Davao City surfaced online on his birthday on May 28. By VERA Files | Apr 7, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is Davao City ‘relatively safe’? President Rodrigo Duterte said Davao City is ‘relatively safe’. Is it? By VERA FILES | Apr 7, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is Davao City’s economic growth unprecedented in the country’s history? Is the president correct in saying that Davao City's growth is “unprecedented”? By VERA FILES | Apr 6, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News PUV drivers to undergo refresher course at LTFRB’s academy “There is a scarcity of qualified professional drivers in public transportation.” By MIGUEL DUMAUAL | Apr 5, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News ROAD SAFETY SERIES: Multiple PH road crash databases need integration, tuning The government has yet to create an integrated database for drivers and pedestrians struck and killed by vehicles. By EVAN ORIAS | Apr 5, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 23 24 25 26 27 … 31 Older posts