Archive - News Year all 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 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is the CHR a Constitutional Commission? Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella and Sen. Risa Hontiveros both said the CHR is a Constitutional Commission. Were they correct in saying so? By VERA FILES | Aug 20, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News Chit Estella-Simbulan on what makes an ideal journalism teacher Simbulan, who would have turned 60 on Aug. 19, made it her mission to “help produce good journalists, journalists who can be better than me.” By Jake Soriano | Aug 19, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News No ASEAN role in Scarborough conflict between PH and China The agreed framework for a Code on South China Sea was the most important achievement of the recently-concluded meeting of the foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations which segued to more meetings with its dialogue partners and the Asean Regional Forum. By Ellen T. Tordesillas | Aug 16, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte skews war on drugs figures; Aquino gets it wrong too Duterte's misleading claim exaggerates the supposed gains of his administration’s war against illegal drugs. By VERA Files | Aug 15, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News PODCAST: 50 years of ASEAN: Still waiting for social and ecological justice Within 50 years of existence, ASEAN has made progress on environmental policies – at least on paper. By Johanna Son for Heinrich Boll Stiftung | Aug 14, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News PH chairs ASEAN 50: Congratulations, China After reading the Joint Communique of the 50th anniversary of ASEAN, together with other documents and accounts of meetings, three narratives come to mind. By Lauro L. Baja, Jr. | Aug 11, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte ‘jokes’ about abolishing CHR, meddling with Ombudsman probes Not the first time the president made a "joke" about a serious matter. By VERA Files | Aug 11, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News IP groups censure violence, ask government to protect their rights “We have been greatly affected by wars which are not ours,” a statement released by IPs said. By TEXT BY MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL and ARIANNE CHRISTIAN TAPAO | Aug 11, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Timeline of the ASEAN and China Code of Conduct in the South China Sea Timeline of key events dating back to 1992, when the goal of having a COC in the South China Sea was first set. By Contributed by Charmaine Deogracias | Aug 9, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte says he never ordered the police to kill anyone, backpedals less than a minute later Duterte: "I never said, 'I will order the police to kill you.'" By VERA Files | Aug 8, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News Sexually deviant priests sent to Tagaytay for rehab On a two-hectare land tucked away somewhere in Tagaytay City stands a gated retreat house run by priests for priests. By Anton C. Onato | Aug 8, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING News A COC that would legitimize China’s artificial islands in the Spratlys Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday that he and the 10 foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have approved the framework for the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. By Ellen T. Tordesillas | Aug 7, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 165 166 167 168 169 … 252 Older posts