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On orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, 10 high-profile convicts from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa were transferred to the Philippine Marine Barracks in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, citing “threats to their security.”

The recently concluded Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (PPP) has a gem of an entry called Lola Igna directed by Eduardo Roy, Jr.

Disqualified Duterte Youth party-list nominee and former National Youth Commission head Ronald Cardema made three false claims in his Notice of Withdrawal submitted before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sept. 13.

Fresh from his five-day official visit to China, President Rodrigo Duterte went from “invoking” to “ignoring” the Philippines’ historic win on the South China Sea dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

“Fake news is a global phenomenon, actually. It is not just hype. It extends not just to principal-level harms but to practical harms like corrupting moral institutions and social fibers. We are the moral fiber of the society, in general.” -- Gabriel “Gab” Billones Jr, chief organizer of Break the Fake Hackathon 2019

By seeking to penalize only “false and deceiving content online,” the bill neglects disinformation that spread through other vectors.

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) spokesperson Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago is wrong in saying the government has not built any infrastructure or made any effort to solve the traffic congestion in Metro Manila in the past 40 years. MMDA in itself was established 24 years ago to address that.

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Iloilo 1st district representative Janette Garin has changed her stance on the effectivity of the Department of Health’s (DOH) dengue prevention program called the Enhanced 4S Strategy. From promoting it as “key” strategy against the spread of dengue when she was still health secretary, Garin now thinks the strategy has minimal effect.

Since the last PTI trust rating survey in 2017, trust in the church declined to 90 percent. Confidence in government went down to 76 percent. But the decline was sharper for media, which fell to 69 percent from 78 percent.

Twenty-seven-year-old fashion entrepreneur Prince Jimdel Ventura has not bought “new” clothes for five years. He hopes that his company “Wear Forward” will help others do the same, especially in light of the global call to address the problem of climate change.

From calling President Rodrigo Duterte a coddler of the New People’s Army (NPA), retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr., who was convicted of kidnapping and serious illegal detention, now “believes” Duterte is the only president who can “end” the communist insurgency in the country.