Dengue epidemic credited to water shortage, lack of coordination between stakeholders
The dengue epidemic the country is experiencing today had been foreseen as early as in January this year—but preventive measures were still not put in place.
The dengue epidemic the country is experiencing today had been foreseen as early as in January this year—but preventive measures were still not put in place.
Some child restraint systems sold online pose as legitimate safety devices that offer little to no protection in the event of a collision. Here are ways to find out if your car seat is good enough for your kid.
A fake government office called “Philippine International Development Agency (PIDA)” is pretending to be a procurement body under the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). A reader asked VERA Files to fact check the agency’s legitimacy after a post about it made the rounds on social media.
The battle of Marawi in 2017, in the heart of the Islamic city in Lanao del Sur province, deviated into violent extremism that opened more fears for the future in what was an undertaking by mostly a generation of millennial fighters. The siege that lasted five months, from May to October, was unprecedented in magnitude, challenging the military in doctrine and tactics, and prompting daily sorties of air strikes that reduced Marawi to a state of destruction. It was unbelievable that two principal brothers of a family attached to the political and business elite of the Maranaos – the Muslim ethnic tribe of Lanao del Sur – had raised the stakes of Islamism beyond the call for autonomy in a fractured land.
While searching for dense forests through the Google Earth map, Emmanuel Lerona was surprised to see something different as he was looking at the mountain-area of Antique in Google Earth. “Instead of just light and dark areas to indicate peaks and slopes and ridges of mountain, I saw a very unnatural-looking feature that looked more like spider webs,”
An online post claiming the extract from “talbos ng kamote” or leaves of sweet potatoes can “kill cancer” has been widely circulating on Facebook (FB) for the past three months.
Are there any available documents or accounts showing the Dutertes and the Marcoses had a very close personal relationship prior to the leadup to the 2016 elections? In an academic workshop last year, a former journalist claimed that he had never known Duterte to praise Marcos when he was mayor of Davao City in the 1990s. What do we really know about the purported ties of these political families?
Here’s a round up of our live fact checking.
Philippine National Police and the Office of the Solicitor General had been opposing the release of documents related to the more than 20,000 drug related deaths. But last April, voting unanimously, the Supreme Court ordered the two agencies to submit the documents being demanded by families of the victims.
Fresh from his five-day official visit to China, President Rodrigo Duterte went from “invoking” to “ignoring” the Philippines’ historic win on the South China Sea dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).