Archive - News Year 2018 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 CIDG investigates LGUs for alleged misuse of funds The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has directed the Crime Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to investigate at least 37 towns and cities as early as August for alleged “irregularities in their disbursement of public funds.” By Meeko Angela Camba | Oct 14, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News Amid threats, ‘fake news’ and eroding trust levels, journalists in Asia urged to fight back But what he calls a “jail-friendly job” did not stop him from fighting back through art and humor, hoping he and Najib Razak would trade places someday. By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL | Oct 13, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News Philippine climate change body calls for strong action to limit warming to 1.5°C The need to protect the country’s ecosystem has become urgent following the Oct. 8 release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, Secretary Emmanuel De Guzman of the Climate Change Commission (CCC), said. By Imelda V. Abano | Oct 12, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Why ‘red-tagging’ is dangerous Red-baiting in its most extreme can lead to warrantless arrests, torture, enforced disappearances, or worst, extrajudicial killings. By VERA FILES | Oct 11, 2018 | 6-minute read KEEP READING News Duterte in Hongkong with Honeylet and daughter Kitty Pres. Duterte was seen at the Uniqlo store in Causeway Bay in Hongkong today , Oct. 6,at about 7:30 p.m with companion Honeylet Avanceñas and daughter Kitty accompanied by security escorts. By Ellen T. Tordesillas | Oct 6, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News Illegal small-scale miners ask government to legalize their status Unregulated small-scale miners are appealing to the government to help legalize their status so they can continue operating under the state’s supervision and not face work suspension, as what happened to the small-scale miners in the Cordillera region. By Klaire Ting | Oct 5, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Calida wrongly claims Trillanes was involved in 2006 Marines standoff Solicitor General Jose Calida, speaking about Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV’s recently revoked amnesty, wrongly implicated the senator in a mutiny he was not part of. By VERA Files | Oct 4, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Imee changes tune on Trillanes’ amnesty In 2010, Marcos asserted that Trillanes’ more than seven years of incarceration had been punishment enough. By VERA FILES | Oct 4, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT SHEET: A trail of false claims made and fake news shared by Mocha Uson Many times, she has made false claims and peddled fake news in her column or her Facebook page Mocha Uson Blog which to date counts 5.7 millions followers. Let’s revisit the trail: By VERA Files | Oct 3, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Uson leaves gov’t with three cases before Ombudsman The latest was filed in Sept. 20 by advocates for PWDs for mocking the sign language in a viral Facebook video. Here are some quick facts relevant to the latest complaint.. By VERA Files | Oct 3, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News Pagsisiksikan ng mga bata sa SUV ‘isang kaso ng child abuse’ — Ejercito Nakabimbin sa plenary ngayon ang Senate Bill 1447 o “Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act of 2017." By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL | Oct 2, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING News Children crammed in SUV ‘a case of child abuse’— Ejercito Unacceptable acts like these would be banned once a bill seeking to protect Filipino children riding private vehicles be passed into law. By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL | Oct 2, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 29 Older posts