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Hours before the President's SONA declaration, Filipino and Chinese diplomats simultaneously announced the arrangement they agreed on for the rotation and resupply (RORE) to the Philippine Marines stationed at BRP Sierra Made on Ayungin Shoal (international name: Second Thomas Shoal and Chinese name: Ren’ai Jiao).

When the president enumerates his legislative agenda in today’s SONA, he should also report on how laws passed since 2022 are being carried out, if they are implemented at all.

There are those who caricature the Alice Guo issue as an exercise in racial discrimination against nationals of the People’s Republic of China. The exaggeration is so detached from ground reality.

Congress should act swiftly on a bill that will ease the registration of births, marriages and deaths of Filipinos and penalize those who take advantage of the system's weaknesses.

Almost 30 years after the siege that lasted 1, 425 days, Sarajevo's battle scars are still all over the place.

American obligation to defend the Philippines in the South China Sea is a nothing-burger. The question for Filipinos is whether they would risk upgrading this obligation under a renegotiated MDT given the certainty of a conflict between U.S. and China for dominance in the region. The question for Americans is whether they would be willing to foot the bill with their lives on tiny rocks thousands of miles across the Pacific.

Aurora province is decidedly the bailiwick of the Angara political family. Eight Angaras have so far sat in various elective positions in the province and in its capital of Baler.

“Without an independent, self-sustaining media, it is impossible to guarantee citizens the information they need to oppose the government,” says Harvard prof Steven Levitsky.

No past secretary of education had ever done it. Simply, it is not done. Militarism in the education bureaucracy is not within its mandate.

Unlike Gloria, who is an economist, Sara’s incompetence would only exacerbate the country’s current situation.

Following the publication of our obituary article on the death of the great freedom fighter and statesman Rene Saguisag (“Why Rene Saguisag was only a 1-term senator,” April 26, 2024), we received a letter from the late senator’s only sister Lulu Saguisag Santos.

More than slogans, songs or pledges, meaningful changes are realized when people see good examples and dedicated work from their leaders.