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Category: Editor’s Pick

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    Categories Arts & Culture Editor's Pick

    When a tea party becomes a political statement

    By Text and photos by Elizabeth Lolarga  |  Feb 23, 2019 9:59 AM

    In this current show, visual artist Tin Garcia uses Ming Dynasty-inspired pottery, reproductions sourced from a reliable thrift shop, to make a statement on the West Philippine Sea issue and the increasing presence and influence of the Chinese in the Philippines.

    Pablo Gallery, Tin Garcia

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    Categories Editor's Pick News PHL Vote 2019

    Having too many political parties said to harm voters

    By Text and photos by VJ Bacungan  |  Feb 13, 2019 5:52 AM

    In the Philippines, which borrowed many political traditions from its American colonizer, voters in the upcoming May 2019 elections will have to choose among 18 parties vying for 12 senatorial seats, as well as a staggering 134 parties battling for 59 party-list seats in the House of Representatives.

    #Halalan2019, #Paul Hutchcroft

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Palace denies VERA Files’ FOI request on Duterte’s health; official statement, medical records ‘not on file’

    By MEEKO ANGELA CAMBA  |  Feb 09, 2019 10:29 AM

    The FOI process was riddled with technicalities and vague explanations.

    Duterte health, FOI, Harry Roque, SWS survey

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Human rights an issue in new US funding support to the Philippines

    By Charmaine C. Deogracias  |  Feb 08, 2019 4:46 AM

    The Philippines will receive U.S. funding assistance under the newly-signed Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) that aims to promote Washington’s security and other interests in the Indo-Pacific region, but no funds will be given in support of the government’s anti-narcotics campaign unless certain human rights standards are satisfied.

    Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA)

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    Categories Earth Files Editor's Pick News

    Eruption, Lahar, and Resilience

    By Johnna Villaviray Giolagon  |  Feb 05, 2019 12:46 PM

    Come Feb. 10, when the townsfolk of Bacolor go to the San Guillermo Parish Church for their fiesta celebration, they will enter the worship place through the upper windows, as what they have been doing the past 28 years since Mt. Pinatubo erupted and altered their lives in ways they never imagined.

    earthfiles, EJN

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    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte counts Catholic saints, revises his number twice

    By VERA FILES  |  Jan 25, 2019 12:19 PM

    President Rodrigo Duterte has a penchant for citing unsupported figures and then revising them using, again, unsupported data.

    Catholic saints, Duterte

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    No children protection units in most gov’t hospitals despite DOH order

    By Marishka M. Cabrera  |  Jan 21, 2019 9:41 PM

    There are 94 Women and Children Protection Units (WCPUs) and Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) Desks spread across the country, according to the Department of Health (DOH) website.

    Child Protection

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Lack of psychologists in gov’t hospitals hampers healing of abused children

    By Marishka M. Cabrera  |  Jan 21, 2019 5:05 AM

    Ella (not her real name) was brought to the child protection unit of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) after a jeepney driver raped her when she was five years old. She was abused inside the jeepney where she and her family slept at night. A neighbor caught her abuser in the act.

    child abuse

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    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Viral ‘national’ surveys of Senate bets on Facebook lack basis

    By VERA FILES  |  Jan 14, 2019 5:01 PM

    They lack the standards that researchers worldwide consider to be “mandatory requirements” in publishing professional survey results.

    Election surveys, Glenn Chong, SWS

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    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Ads reveal links between websites producing fake news

    By Celine Isabelle Samson  |  Dec 30, 2018 8:35 PM

    We looked into this network and established three things.

    Aquino, Duterte, fake news, Google

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