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  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS ONLY ten days that Pastor Apollo Quiboloy and incoming President Rodrigo Duterte haven’t talked with each other and the “Son of God” is already hurting. Sharing with media the Pastor’s hurt feeling, Quiboloy’s spokesperson, Mike Abe, said the last face-to-face meeting of the two was at 3 a.m. of May

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS PRESUMPTIVE President-elect Rodrigo  Duterte said early this week he wants to know why the Philippines  lost Scarborough Shoal. When he said this, he was apparently under the impression that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who exposed his BPI bank deposits amounting to no less than P200 million despite  before the May

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AMID protests to stop the proclamation of winning candidates, the Commission on Elections proceeded to declare the Senate Magic 12 today at the Philippine International Convention Center. Newly minted senators Joel Villanueva, Emmanuel Pacquiao, Ana Theresia Hontiveros, Sherwin Gatchalian and Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa de Lima join returning senators Franklin Drilon,

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL RETIRED army general Jovito Palparan, who was implicated in the disappearance of University of the Philippines students Karen Empeno and Sherlyn Cadapan, made it to the top 12 of the senatorial race in the Local Absentee Voting (LAV) results. Former senator Panfilo Lacson, who served as chief of the Philippine National

By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO City – The chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has congratulated presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte for his “historic victory” during the May 9 Presidential election and vowed to “partner with you and your administration.” Addressing the letter dated May 10 to “His Excellency… President-elect Duterte,” MILF chair

By MA. NIÑA PAMELA CASTRO and BRYAN EZRA GONZALES OFTEN disenfranchised for reasons ranging from violence to illiteracy, indigenous people (IP) voters last week were given a peek into what hopefully could be more inclusive elections in the future. In Oriental and Occidental Mindoro during the May 9 polls, a pilot initiative to bring polling places

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IT’S only 45 days away when Rodrigo Duterte becomes the 16th president of the Republic of the Philippines. If Duterte makes good his election promise, Gloria Arroyo, who has won another  term as representative of the second district of Pampanga, can look forward to days of freedom very soon. She

By DIANA G. MENDOZA THE Philippines became the first country in the world to stage the “AIDS Hour” as it joined the 33rd International AIDS Candlelight Memorial last night in  lighting  a candle from 6 to 7 pm as an act of solidarity in remembering those who died of AIDS. Amidst the unabated rise of its

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL THE Commission on Elections will hold special polls in 52 polling precincts where failure of elections was declared either due to violence, lack of official ballots or misdelivered ballots. Of this, 15,074 voters from Visayas and Mindanao were barred from voting due to threats, harassment and killings in areas where intense political

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FORMER Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro is being eyed by President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to be his foreign secretary, not as defense secretary, as some new reports say, a source close to Duterte said. In an interview before the May 9 election, the source said Teodoro has not yet responded to the

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AMID claims of electoral fraud, the Commission on Elections assured the public the Smartmatic-introduced script in the transparency servers was purely “cosmetic” and would not affect results. On Thursday, poll chief Andres Bautista told reporters: “I can categorically say there is no cheating going on.” This was after Smartmatic’s Marlon Garcia, who

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS CHINA is hopeful that relations  with the Philippines will be better  under the government of Rodrigo Duterte, who will succeed President Benigno Aquino III on July 1. In a regular press conference in Beijing Wednesday,  Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang was asked about statements by Duterte that he is willing to talk