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Category: Editor’s Pick

  • Digongsyunaryo 25: shabulized
    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES YEARENDER: DIGONGsyonaryo

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 31, 2016 2:36 PM

    THE year 2016 gave the Philippines a new president, who brought with him to office his very own lexicon, one which we must use our “creative imagination” to fathom.

    Duterte

  • Marcos burial
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    VERA FILES YEARENDER: Despite Marcos burial at LNMB, facts about his fake heroism remain

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 30, 2016 12:26 PM

    It could have been the year a Marcos scion almost got elected the second highest official of the land. Instead, 2016 proved it had more in store for the family of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

    Libingan ng Bayani, marcos, marcos burial

  • Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES YEARENDER: Duterte’s curses and insults

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 28, 2016 12:17 PM

    It’s no longer shocking as it was months before when news of President Rodrigo Duterte taking a swipe at yet another world leader breaks out.

    Duterte, Human rights, Obama, United Nations, War on drugs

  • duterte-yearender.jpg
    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES YEARENDER: Explaining the president: He says, they say

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 23, 2016 2:12 PM

    For the Philippines, the second half of 2016 meant listening to President Rodrigo Duterte’s press conferences, often at midnight, and his curses and threats against world leaders, corrupt politicians, and drug lords.

    drug war, Duterte, United States, west philippine sea

  • Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is Aguirre correct in saying CHR should file cases against erring policemen?

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 17, 2016 7:02 PM

    Is Aguirre correct in saying CHR should file cases against erring policemen?

    fact-check, verafied, War on drugs

  • Bearing witness01.jpg
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Bearing witness: Photogs tell the story of extrajudicial killings

    By LUZ RIMBAN  |  Dec 07, 2016 12:25 PM

    The glare of a drugstore sign floods the street, shining on the lifeless body of a man sprawled on the wet concrete, a crime scene cordoned off by the usual police tape and curious bystanders who have gathered to ogle the latest victim in the government’s war against drugs.

    EJK, Human rights

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    War on drugs: What the numbers show

    By Yvonne Chua  |  Oct 08, 2016 2:23 AM

    A HUNDRED days into his presidency, Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal “war on drugs” has chalked up an official tally of 3,652 deaths.

    100 days, Duterte, Killings, War on drugs

  • Rodrigo Duterte
    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte seesaws with media

    By VERA Files  |  Sep 16, 2016 4:42 PM

    President Rodrigo Duterte on Sept. 10 told the media to go ahead and criticize him and his government’s shortcomings, saying it is their sworn duty. Not so long ago, he dared reporters to kill and stop journalism in this country.

    Boycott, Duterte, Killings, Media, NUJP

  • Categories Editor's Pick News PHL Vote 2016 Seeing through the Smoke

    Tobacco farmers yet to feel benefits of excise tax shares

    By VERA Files. Photos and video by DANIEL ABUNALES  |  May 08, 2016 11:45 AM

      Second of two parts (See Part 1: Like Arroyo, Aquino gov’t releases billions to LGUs before elections) ALCALA, Pangasinan — At the end of the newly opened section of the Tarlac-Pangasinan La Union Expressway, the one that exits at Rosales town, is a huge monstrosity of a structure, appearing empty and abandoned. It is supposed […]

    2016 elections, burley, tobacco

  • Categories Editor's Pick News PHL Vote 2016 Seeing through the Smoke

    Like Arroyo, Aquino gov’t releases billions to LGUs before elections

    By VERA Files  |  May 08, 2016 11:22 AM

    First of two parts THE Aquino government has distributed some P10 billion pesos to select local government units mostly in Northern Luzon on the eve of the 2016 elections, repeating a practice employed by the Arroyo administration which President Aquino has repeatedly called a corrupt government. The funds represent the LGUs’ share from excise taxes […]

    2016 elections, burley, tobacco

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