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For Tabios and Cuaresma, and thousands of other fishermen in this province, the WPS dispute is not just about fighting for our territorial rights but also fighting for their livelihood. (This special report was produced under VERA Files’ project on enhancing the media’s capability to raise public awareness of the situation in the South China Sea, funded by the Government of Canada through its Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. #CanadaFundPH )

"I was a bit disappointed with the decision to turn back. So were the other volunteers. But the incident all the more strengthened their commitment to defend the country’s territory in the West Philippine Sea." Read Palawan News reporter Gerald Ticke's first-hand account of his experience joining a Christmas caravan to Lawak Island in the West Philippine Sea. (This special report was produced under VERA Files’ project on enhancing the media’s capability to raise public awareness of the situation in the South China Sea, funded by the Government of Canada through its Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. #CanadaFundPH )

The key hotspots for the killings are Davao del Sur, 61; Cebu, 52; Metro Manila, 41; Negros Occidental, 31; and Iloilo, 22.

Evalan, Edora and Barnachan said fishermen’s wives like them cannot depend on the sea anymore for their livelihood.

This special report was first published by PressOnePH on Jan. 6, 2024. It was produced under VERA Files’ project on enhancing the media’s capability to raise public awareness of the situation in the South China Sea, funded by the Government of Canada through its Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. #CanadaFundPH

This special report was first published by Film Weekly on Dec. 20, 2023. It was produced under VERA Files’ project on enhancing the media’s capability to raise public awareness of the situation in the South China Sea, funded by the Government of Canada through its Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. #CanadaFundPH

This special report was first published by Philstar.com on Dec. 14, 2023. It was produced under VERA Files’ project on enhancing the media’s capability to raise public awareness of the situation in the South China Sea, funded by the Government of Canada through its Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. #CanadaFundPH

This special report was first published by ABS-CBN News Patrol ng Pilipino on Oct. 25, 2023. It was produced under VERA Files’ project on enhancing the media’s capability to raise public awareness of the situation in the South China Sea, funded by the Government of Canada through its Canada Fund for Local Initiatives. #CanadaFundPH

Millions joined this year’s mass procession, the first after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lascañas reveals plots to kill De Lima and Fr. Lamata, the real reason Parojinog and members of his family were murdered and Duterte’s instruction to rape women drug suspects.

In Bohol, like many parts of the country, the poor are forced to live in riverbanks, on steep slopes or close to the sea, making them vulnerable to natural calamities.

Dahil sa patuloy na pagsira ng China sa coral reefs sa West Philippine Sea, nangangamba ang mga mangingisda at eksperto sa masamang epekto nito sa kabuhayan at food security ng bansa. Pakinggan sila dito sa special episode ng #WhatTheF?! Podcast.

Two years after typhoon Odette swept away homes and devastated communities in Bohol, villagers are back in areas identified as vulnerable to storm surges as they have no place to go.

Nery's book is a declaration that fence-sitting or being politically ambiguous isn't a life option.

To be a major assassin in the Davao Death Squad, Rodrigo Duterte insisted on one requirement: omerta.

Filipino talents now abound and being cheered not only in native shores but also in Europe and in the United States.

After seven long years in detention for what she insists as trumped -up drug charges, former Sen. Leila de Lima walked out of her detention cell at the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame at about 7 p.m. Nov. 13.

Anxiety and depression constantly piggyback on those sidelined to society's peripheries, like the members of the Filipino Deaf community.

In a country ranked as the eighth most dangerous country in the world for journalists, the murder of broadcaster Juan Jumalon, early Sunday morning while he was on a Facebook live-stream, still raised shock and fear.

On Nov. 1, Filipinos trooped to cemeteries and columbaria with candles and flowers to remember their departed loved ones.

Monday’s polls, the result of which, according to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is “crucial” to national politicians, was the first since 2018 — Photos and videos by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files.

Alamin mula sa mga mangingisda sa Zambales kung ano nga ba ang sitwasyon sa West Philippine Sea, dito sa VERA Files Fact Check.

Christian Pastor Cung Biak Hum was 30 years old when the Myanmar military allegedly shot him dead in Thantlang town of Chin State, Myanmar. He was on his way to help put out the raging fires in houses after an armed encounter between the military and local armed groups in September 2021.

Supporters of former senator Leila de Lima’s freedom are hoping to see her out of detention soon after two more witnesses recanted Oct 16 saying they are “bothered by their conscience.”

VERA Files is partnering with Germany-based Global Media Registry (GMR), with support from the German Embassy Manila, to update the Philippine Media Ownership Monitor (MOM-PH) database compiled in 2016. MOM is an international effort spearheaded by non-profit media organizations to promote transparency and accountability in media ownership. The initiative seeks to advance media literacy among

“Making wars means making maps,” the Thai scholar Thongchai Winichakul wrote in his landmark Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation (1994).

Most schools are still recovering from the devastation. Yet, there are some that have defeated the odds, returning to what they once were as if the destruction never existed.

Members of several organizations concerned about China’s aggressive activities in West Philippine Sea are organizing a trip Christmas time to Ayungin Shoal where the rusting BRP Sierra Madre manned by Marine soldiers stands, asserting Philippine sovereignty in the waters also claimed by China.

TAGBILARAN CITY - Nearly two years since Super Typhoon Odette (international name: Rai) battered Bohol, only 17% out of 3, 338 damaged classrooms in 366 schools all over the province have either been repaired or reconstructed.

One hundred forty three sites in Luzon have been put up to memorialize the Marcos family, according to a study by the University of the Philippines (UP Third World Studies Center (TWSC).