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Category: Editor’s Pick

  • First page of a 1988 version of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.'s last will and testament, as published in Erick San Juan's book Marcos Legacy Revisited
    Categories Editor's Pick Marcos Files

    ‘Ecstatic’ loyalists await their share of the Marcos wealth but is it Fool’s Gold?

    By Miguel Paolo P. Reyes  |  Jun 29, 2022 8:03 PM

    Millions, scammed or otherwise, are probably ecstatic about the Second Coming of Ferdinand Marcos – Senior or Junior. They helped put a Marcos back in Malacañang; will the Marcos heirs reward their faith?

    marcos, marcos loyalists

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    Energy crisis looms as PH drops joint oil and gas exploration with China 

    By Theresa Martelino-Reyes  |  Jun 26, 2022 11:27 AM

    Hopes for joint oil and gas exploration between the Philippines and China, especially in the disputed Recto (Reed) Bank, have been shattered with the termination of bilateral talks, leaving it […]

    PH-China MOU on oil and gas exploration

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    Rights groups cheer on ICC call for resumption of probe on Duterte’s drug war; Palace ‘exasperated’

    By IVEL JOHN M. SANTOS  |  Jun 25, 2022 3:28 PM

    Human rights groups welcomed on Saturday the move of International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan for the continuation of the investigation into the Philippine drug war after the Duterte […]

    drug war, Duterte, ICC, International Criminal Court, Rodrigo Duterte

  • VFFS Durtete drug war
    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK Fact Sheet

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Duterte’s ‘never-ending’ fight against drugs and corruption in his own words

    By VERA Files  |  Jun 24, 2022 2:01 PM

    (First of two parts) At the height of the 2016 presidential race, then-mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City said his only reason for running against big names in Philippine politics was to rid the country of illegal drugs and corruption in three to six months.

    drug war, Rodrigo Duterte

  • Categories Commentary Editor's Pick PHL Vote 2022

    The awesome thoroughness of Marcos brainwashing ops

    By Ellen Tordesillas  |  Jun 24, 2022 9:48 AM

    Amidst the preparations for the June 30 inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr as the 17th president of the Philippines, I’m still dreadfully in awe of the thoroughness of the brainwashing operations that the Marcos family undertook to achieve their rehabilitation in less than four decades.


  • Overall Trust Scores
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    More Filipinos trust news but many avoid it—Digital News Report 2022

    By Yvonne T. Chua  |  Jun 15, 2022 7:01 AM

    The proportion of Filipinos who say they “can trust most news most of the time” has
    gone up to 37% this year amid a surge of COVID-19 cases around the time the survey
    was conducted.

    Digital News Report, trust ratings

  • thumbnail_fc-imee-marcos
    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Imee Marcos’ claim that China has ‘never attempted to take over’ PH needs context

    By VERA Files  |  Jun 13, 2022 4:11 PM

    Sen. Imee Marcos claimed that China has not even once attempted to take over the Philippines “in any way.” This lacks important context.

    Imee Marcos, South China Sea

  • Categories Commentary Editor's Pick

     Bongbong Marcos enters the world stage

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Jun 12, 2022 10:15 PM

    The office of incoming President Ferdinand ” Bongbong” Marcos Jr. announced that he is thinking of attending the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September in New York.

    bongbong marcos

  • Categories Commentary Editor's Pick PHL Vote 2022

    When Imee fled with a fake Bolivian passport

    By Antonio J. Montalvan II  |  Jun 03, 2022 5:43 PM

    Imee Marcos trolled. ANC anchor Karen Davila was never ever heard to have said on record that she would leave the Philippines if a Marcos becomes president. Openly and without hesitancy before a national television audience, Imee was purveyor of fake news.

    Imee Marcos, Karen Davila

  • Categories Commentary Editor's Pick PHL Vote 2022

    Why we have to learn the art of listening  and discerning

    By Ellen T.Tordesillas  |  May 31, 2022 1:56 PM

    In his insightful piece in Time Magazine on the election as president of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the ousted dictator, scholar Jonathan Ong said: “To fight back, progressive leaders should advance their own counter-narrative and persuasive vision. But first, they must acknowledge their failure to listen.”

    #VerafiedElections2022, bongbong marcos, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., Imelda Marcos

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