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  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE statement of United States Ambassador Philip Goldberg supporting the concern of Australian Ambassador  Amanda Gorely  of the trivialization of rape by  presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte, reflects the concern of the international community about the strong possibility of a Duterte presidency. The childish and reckless retort of Duterte, who is

By VERA Files IF you’re a Filipino registered voter, chances are your personal data, including fingerprint, street address, precinct number and passport information, are now floating online. These data can be accessed through a search engine, wehaveyourdata.com. Hacktivist group LulzSec Pilipinas said it owns the website. The group also claimed responsibility for defacing the official

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL THE attack on a Lanao del Sur gubernatorial bet in an ambush early Saturday morning did not make it to the first election-related violence (ERV) report released recently by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). If it did, it would have raised to nine the incidents of ERVs in the Autonomous

By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO CITY – “When the order is shoot-to-kill, it can never be shoot-to-live,” Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte said after a bloody end to a hostage-taking in August 1989, when he was still on his first of what would be seven terms as city mayor. The 1989 hostage-taking at the detention

By MIA GOMEZ and JOHANNA SON BANGKOK – It’s been 10 years since civil society groups in ASEAN started having annual interactions with ASEAN leaders, including face-to-face meetings at summits. But beyond making news headlines, how effective have these been in influencing ASEAN’s work or its member states’ policies? How can engagement with ASEAN be

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE ghost of Jaqueline Hamill must have come back to haunt Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for disrespecting her even when she was dead after having been gang raped twenty years ago. Duterte refused to apologize over his statement captured in a 1989 video where he was regaling the audience about

    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS NOW that more and more persons with credibility (among them Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV during the vice-presidential debate and much earlier former senator and now senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” Lacson) are questioning the sanity of his claim that he can rid the country of criminals, drug dealers and corrupt

      By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS  DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s proposed solution to the South China territorial conflict would make thrilling action-packed movie scene. In a speech before travel executives at the MOA-SMX last Friday (and in all his rally speches) Duterte said, “I will ask the Navy to bring me to the

THE disability sector breathed a sigh of relief when news broke in late March that President Benigno Simeon Aquino III had finally signed into law the bill exempting persons with disabilities (PWDs) from the value-added tax (VAT). For advocates, the enactment of Republic Act 10754 had been one nerve-wracking wait. Congress had already passed the

By JAKE SORIANO DURING the CNN-sponsored vice presidential debate Sunday, five of the six candidates talked about their proposed plans to achieve lasting peace in Mindanao. No one mentioned how they and their running mates intend to implement the peace agreements already signed by the Philippine government. Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. proposed to “continue” the peace

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS DO we still have a President? More than 20 Filipinos died Saturday in a clash between government forces and the terrorist group Abu Sayaf in Barangay Baguindan Tipo-Tipo in Basilan. And there’s not a word from the commander-in-chief of the   country’s Armed Forces. As I was writing this piece at 5

   (Lumabas itong kolum sa Abante: www.abante.com.ph)  Ni ELLEN T.TORDESILLAS KAYA si Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ay mura ng mura dahil gustong-gusto yan ng mga tagahanga niya. Mas malutong ang “Putang Ina” mas malakas ang palakpak. Nang sinundan namin ang kanyang rally noong Biyernes sa Parañaque, Las Piñas at Muntinlupa, nabingi ako sa santambak