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As the South Chinese Sea dispute continues to heat up, former associate justice Antonio Carpio has recommended that the Philippines submit the conflicting claims in the Spratly Islands to voluntary arbitration in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

From the way the Polish conductor projected the essence of the music, one could see musical genius at work.

Vice President Sara Duterte has been the butt of jokes, particularly in social media, over her reticence to open up as a public official about her millions of pesos of confidential funds and her extraordinary number of security guards.

The proliferation of confidential funds has reached a fragile state that has rendered it to a point of illegitimacy, despite the joint memorandum circular allowing it.

By the will of Sara Duterte, her budget hearing in the Senate could have proceeded according to plan.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines observed its 54th year with a new president and a temporary venue (the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts) while the original main theater edifice is undergoing a three-year renovation.

The proposed 2024 budget shows the administration's priorities for spending: a 58% increase in the president's travel funds, while the agriculture sector gets a measly 6% more than its budget this year.

In 2018, the country underwent a rice crisis. By October, retail prices of well-milled rice (WMR) reached almost Php 50 per kilo, up 14% over prices in the previous year.

Tsokolate has always been around in our lives, we drink thick tsokolate de batirol, enjoy champorado with dried salty fish, or snack on moron, a rice cake with chocolate inside

PPO new music director Grzegorz Nowak: They are responsive, they connect very well musically and they are more than willing to raise the level of musicianship of the PPO ensemble.

That was the big question in 2016 when Rodrigo Duterte ran for president. His troll battalions said, yes.

It was in 1977, and not 1981, that Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. pledged a $1.5 million endowment to Tufts University. It was not the Philippine government that made the commitment; it was the Marcos Foundation.