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Do we qualify for a sovereign wealth fund?

By Antonio J. Montalván II | Dec 07, 2022 2:40 PM

For the majority of us who are neither into actuarial science nor economics, we can learn from the many countries that have invested on a sovereign wealth fund. By doing so, it is possible to come up with an informed judgment on the proposed Maharlika Wealth Fund of the Marcos-Romualdez representatives in Congress.

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Stilt houses along the shoreline in Ubay, Bohol

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Waiting for another disaster in Ubay?

By Tita C. Valderama | Dec 05, 2022 1:43 PM

It needs strong political will from both the local and national leadership to first protect its people from natural and man-made disasters. The people should be spared from a bigger disaster, that is, politics.

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Drug killings under Marcos Jr. surpass those killed in last six months of Duterte

By UP Third World Studies Center | Dec 04, 2022 10:01 PM

Even as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. adopted a different strategy from the Duterte administration’s brutal war against illegal drugs, the killings continue on the high side, data gathered through the Dahas Project of the University of the Philippines Third World Studies Center showed.

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Death in the morning

By Pablo A. Tariman | Dec 03, 2022 7:18 PM

One more time, You rewind another life, Gone at fifty, With just his poems, For his only son to peruse, As last mementoes

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We have failed Bonifacio

By Antonio J. Montalván II | Dec 02, 2022 4:20 PM

His death was an extrajudicial killing committed by the elitist cabal of Emilio Aguinaldo. Why have we left it unpunished? We have made Andres Bonifacio a victim of state impunity until today.

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My husband Ericson Acosta

By Kerima Tariman-Acosta* | Dec 01, 2022 7:13 AM

*This article was first published in TATAK KULÊ, Philippine Collegian Alumni Homecoming Souvenir Program, October 7, 2011. Kerima Lorena Tariman served as managing editor of the University of the Philippines student paper Philippine Collegian during AY 1999—2000. A poet and revolutionary, she was slain in an encounter between the New People’s Army and the 79th Infantry Battalion in Silay, Negros Occidental on August 20, 2021. Ericson Acosta, who served as consultant for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines was killed by elements of the 94th and 47th Infantry Battalion after being reportedly abducted in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on November 30.

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Duterte drug war tactics iniba ni Marcos Jr.?

By Christian Esguerra | Nov 28, 2022 8:47 PM

Sabi ng Marcos administration: “Buhay ay Ingatan, Droga ay Ayawan.” Pero dapat pa ring managot kung sino man ang responsable sa pagpatay ng libu-libong biktima ng madugong drug war.

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