Archive - Editor's Pick

The sentiments of Samal residents have worried environmental groups and a family that has protected the island's reefs for years. The bridge construction will destroy corals and affect the pristine waters that make Samal beaches a favorite destination.

Duterte and his cohorts, Sens. Ronald "Bato" de la Rosa and Christopher "Bong" Go were unapologetic even as relatives of EJK victims narrated the lies and cruelties they were subjected to.

Ten years ago, a “dream plan” for an interconnected Mega Manila was born, with the North-South Commuter Railway as its backbone.

Inaccurate parcellary or lot boundary plans in the initial feasibility studies for the Malolos-Clark Railway Project led to a domino of right-of-way and land acquisition issues on the part of the Department of Transportation.

Savage Mind, a cultural landmark in Naga City, survived the beatings of typhoon Enteng last September but not the ferocity of storm Kristine.

The town of Laurel, in the coastal province of Batangas was not spared by storm Kristine. Amid the widespread damage, the residents resume daily life as they prepare for yet another storm. Photos and video by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files

The first KB elections were held on May 1, 1975. Those eligible to be part of the organization “shall be at least fifteen years of age or over but less than eighteen.” Imee was then 19 years old.

The House quad committee (quadcom), which has uncovered gruesome information in its investigation of EJKs, is now into tracing the money trail that financed former president Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs.It would be helpful for the quadcom to retrieve the interviews given by self-confessed Duterte Death Squad leader Arturo Lascañas and member Edgar Matobato.

In a country at high risk of disasters, public messaging about natural hazards and the climate conversation do not quite reach the Deaf community. Efforts are underway to use Filipino Sign Language better, to connect with them.

Leganes, Iloilo has long awaited the completion of the Panay-Guimaras-Negros Islands Bridge. But three years from the initial plan for construction, promises of economic progress remain hanging due to a shift in funding sources.

The construction of the Panay-Guimaras-Negros bridge may begin next year. But beneath its towering promises of economic progress for the Western Visayas, are fears of its drastic impact on the critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins.

Hitman: Bong Go is the bagman who gives the money to finance when there is a killing operation. If not to the other group of hit men, then to us. But he also has a personal group of hit men, like Titing, he has his own personal hit men.