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Also known as sleep starts, they are “normal physiologic movements not related to death,” according to one neurologist.

A widely-shared video about the 10 “biggest projects” to be constructed under the Duterte administration’s multi-trillion-peso Build, Build, Build program (BBB) is misleading.

Twenty-one years since a group of residents brought to court the deteriorating state of Manila Bay, much remains to be done to complete its rehabilitation.

Sen. Nancy Binay sought a “comprehensive study” on “what to do” with the almost four-decade-old mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) during a Senate committee hearing last Oct. 13 on the proposed budget for 2021 of the Department of Energy (DOE).

While in moderation, it may be beneficial for the treatment of hypertension, there is a lack of clinical trials proving the plant’s safety and efficacy as a cancer treatment.

The post continues to attract viewers despite denials from the young actress' camp and even from a top military official.

Senate President Vicente Sotto III claimed that hardheaded Filipinos are to blame for the cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the country. This is without basis.

Lawyer Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon claimed former president Corazon Aquino stopped the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) from operating because she “didn’t want Filipinos to remember the Marcos family.” This is not true.

Video blogger (vlogger) Byron Cristobal, a Duterte and Marcos supporter better known as Banat By, misleadingly claimed that the adoption of a resolution calling for the improvement of the human rights situation in the Philippines by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) proved there were no extrajudicial killings in the country.

The Supreme Court, sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal, made no such announcement.

The UN Human Rights Council did not declare that Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs “broke no laws."

A WHO official has clarified that they have not made any changes in their stance.

During his nationwide address on Oct. 5, President Rodrigo Duterte contradicted his own past pronouncements in claiming that he has “not killed” nor has ever ordered a hit on anyone.

The National Board of Canvassers recorded 14.42 million votes for Robredo and 14.16 million votes for Marcos.

Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go changed his view once more on how drug-addicted individuals should be dealt with, saying in a Sept. 29 Senate hearing that they must be treated as “victims in dire need of assistance.”

The woman in the four-year-old image was an NPA guerilla using the nom de guerre Comrade Katyrn.

Several health authorities say the same thing: wear the colored side facing outwards.

The statement is in fact a rough Filipino translation of some lines from a poem by Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran.

The swab inserted through the nose allegedly “damages” the endocrine glands and “breaks” the blood-brain barrier, allowing infections to reach the brain. This is not true. This claim has been debunked by multiple health experts.

The post misleads with its budget figures of the on-going Manila Bay rehabilitation and recent government projects.These figures are inaccurate and need context.

The “after” image, showing colorful, developed houses, was taken over a decade ago and more than six years before President Rodrigo Duterte took office.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque erroneously claimed that the European Union (EU) has not delisted any country from its Generalized Scheme of Preferences (GSP), which removes taxes from several products exported by developing countries like the Philippines.

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President Rodrigo Duterte contradicted his top diplomat when he affirmed the Philippines’ historic arbitral victory against China on the South China Sea dispute during his debut appearance at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) on Sept. 22.