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The official campaign period has not started, but presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is already facing four petitions before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to prevent him from running in the May 2022 elections.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has clarified that its decision to suspend temporarily its investigation into the government’s controversial drug war does not have “blanket or general effect” on the probe.

Time has not erased from the mind of Nick and Doris “Chai” Quieta what happened on November 8, 2013. Nor has it healed the pain and suffering that typhoon Haiyan brought to their families and that of more than 7, 000 others who perished in that tragedy.

In the news lately was the strong position that the recipients of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Award (TAA), led by National Artist BenCab, took against the possible return of the Marcos and Duterte families in Malacañang. Together, the more than 100 awardees called their position paper their “Stand for Freedom and Democracy.”

Twelve years after the world’s single deadliest attack on the press that killed 58 media workers in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, their families’ grief never fades away, particularly for Ma. Reynafe Momay-Castillo, whose father, photojournalist Reynaldo “Bebot” Momay, was excluded from the 2019 verdict because his body was never found.

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Describing as “paper-thin” the government’s claim that it is investigating alleged crimes against humanity related to the Duterte administration’s war on drugs, two lawyers’ groups urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to allow the office of Prosecutor Karim Khan to continue with its probe.

​ Heirs of the Maguindanao massacre victims are calling for a public apology and additional compensation from those found guilty of murder in the December 2019 decision of a Quezon City regional trial court. At the same time, the Justice Now Movement stood firm that full justice will only be served with the inclusion of Reynaldo “Bebot” Momay as the 58th murder victim.

Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) News, the news broadcasting arm of televangelist Apollo Quiboloy, erroneously reported that presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. “passed” his bachelor’s degree in social studies at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

The health care sector took among the heaviest beating in this pandemic. And yet, the frontline workers from doctors to medical staff like janitors are also the most overlooked. The recent premiere of the milestone music video “Heroes Unmasked,” composed by National Artist Ryan Cayabyab and sung as a duet by Lea Salonga and Gary Valenciano (a first-time collaboration), served to correct this oversight.

The House Committee on Ways and Means is moving to suspend or reduce excise taxes on selected fuel products as temporary relief for consumers amid skyrocketing prices of oil and petroleum products in the past few months.

​A coalition of lawyers, academe, civil society and advocacy groups both local and international is calling on Facebook to provide transparency and increased resources against disinformation as the 2022 polls draw near.

Political experts predict a divided Mindanao as presidential aspirants Sens. Christopher “Bong” Go and Manny Pacquiao may still form a stronghold in the region, despite Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio’s last minute bid for the vice presidency and team-up with Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

Last September, Duterte accepted the PDP-Laban nomination for vice president. On Oct. 2, he declared that he was retiring from politics. On Nov. 13, Duterte said he might run as the vice-presidential running mate of Sen. Christopher Lawrence "Bong" Go under the PDDS.

Tensions ran high between the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) during the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The two government agencies did not see eye to eye on key issues involving novel tobacco products.

As the government eyes a three-day National Vaccination Drive later this month, President Rodrigo Duterte reopened the issue on whether it is legal for businesses to turn down unvaccinated job applicants.

Twenty-seven days after Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) at the Commission on Elections (Comelec), a group of civic leaders asked the poll body to cancel it for making “material false representations” on his “alleged eligibility to run” for the presidency in the 2022 elections.