Archive - Editor's Pick Year 2016 all 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 Editor's Pick VERA FILES YEARENDER: DIGONGsyonaryo THE year 2016 gave the Philippines a new president, who brought with him to office his very own lexicon, one which we must use our “creative imagination” to fathom. By VERA Files | Dec 31, 2016 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES YEARENDER: Despite Marcos burial at LNMB, facts about his fake heroism remain It could have been the year a Marcos scion almost got elected the second highest official of the land. Instead, 2016 proved it had more in store for the family of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr. By VERA Files | Dec 30, 2016 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES YEARENDER: Duterte’s curses and insults It's no longer shocking as it was months before when news of President Rodrigo Duterte taking a swipe at yet another world leader breaks out. By VERA Files | Dec 28, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES YEARENDER: Explaining the president: He says, they say For the Philippines, the second half of 2016 meant listening to President Rodrigo Duterte’s press conferences, often at midnight, and his curses and threats against world leaders, corrupt politicians, and drug lords. By VERA Files | Dec 23, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is Aguirre correct in saying CHR should file cases against erring policemen? Is Aguirre correct in saying CHR should file cases against erring policemen? By VERA Files | Dec 17, 2016 | 4-minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick Bearing witness: Photogs tell the story of extrajudicial killings The glare of a drugstore sign floods the street, shining on the lifeless body of a man sprawled on the wet concrete, a crime scene cordoned off by the usual police tape and curious bystanders who have gathered to ogle the latest victim in the government’s war against drugs. By LUZ RIMBAN | Dec 7, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick To each his own version of modus vivendi in Scarborough shoal WITH the confirmation by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana that the three Chinese Coast Guard ships are still in Scarborough shoal, the statement of China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying last Monday underscored that Filipino fishermen are back in Scarborough Shoal on the benevolence of China. By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS | Nov 3, 2016 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick South China Sea in Japan visit agenda By CHARMAINE DEOGRACIAS IF the South China Sea took a backseat in President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to China, it will be high in the agenda in his bilateral talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday. A diplomatic source said, Duterte will look to Japan for its maritime security needs in the South By verafiles | Oct 25, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick Duterte allows Xi to take lead on South China Sea issue Duterte allows Xi to take lead on South China Sea issue from VERA Files on Vimeo. By CHARMAINE DEOGRACIAS President Rodrigo Duterte will not initiate and will instead let Chinese President Xi Jinping to take the lead on whether the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration will be discussed in their meeting today. In By verafiles | Oct 20, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick War on drugs: What the numbers show A HUNDRED days into his presidency, Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal “war on drugs” has chalked up an official tally of 3,652 deaths. By Yvonne Chua | Oct 8, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte seesaws with media President Rodrigo Duterte on Sept. 10 told the media to go ahead and criticize him and his government’s shortcomings, saying it is their sworn duty. Not so long ago, he dared reporters to kill and stop journalism in this country. By VERA Files | Sep 16, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Editor's Pick Despite glaring data, road crashes ‘not a public health issue’ By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL WITH startling clarity, 22-year-old Joshua Broqueza recalls how a split second in his life landed him in a hospital bed, bleeding and almost lifeless. It was in the middle of the night, when he and his friends aboard a Toyota Vios were on the Albay province’s so-called killer highway, Maharlika Highway. By verafiles | Aug 18, 2016 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts navigation 1 2 3 Older posts