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    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Problems rocking the salt industry?

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 26, 2023 6:31 PM

    Sen. Cynthia Villar, who chairs the committee, said Republic Act No. 8172, known as the Act for Salt Iodization Nationwide (ASIN), has become a “deterrent” to the development of the industry that produced 300,000 metric tons of salt in 1994, a year before ASIN became law.

    Agriculture, asin, Cynthia Villar, farmer, iodized salt

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Understanding the risks of orbital debris to Filipinos

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 20, 2023 1:54 PM

    In two weeks, the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) issued two advisories warning the public of the potential risks of falling debris from two space rockets launched by China.  On Jan. […]

    China, debris, NASA, Philippine Space Agency, space

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Is the Philippine debt still ‘manageable’?

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 17, 2023 2:44 PM

    The COVID-19 pandemic forced the government to borrow at the historic level of P3.2 trillion to manage the unprecedented health and economic crises that included providing stimulus packages for small […]

    Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, borrowing, Bureau of the Treasury, COVID-19, debt, Department of Finance, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, GDP, loan, Pandemic, Philippines

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Disparity in body count of drug war victims explained

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 13, 2022 2:32 PM

    The Marcos administration has revamped the government’s anti-drug campaign in a bid to focus on demand reduction and rehabilitation of users, as opposed to the all-out war that led to the death of thousands of Filipinos in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.

    Dahas, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., Human Rights Watch, illegal drugs, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Philippine National Police, Rodolfo Azurin Jr., Rodrigo Duterte, War on drugs

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The Maharlika Investment Fund explained

    By vera files fact check  |  Dec 09, 2022 6:21 PM

    What is the Maharlika Investment Fund? Why is it facing so much backlash?

    Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., GSIS, Land Bank of the Philippines, Maharlika Investment Fund, Maharlika Wealth Fund, Martin Romualdez, Sandro Marcos, Sovereign Welfare Fund, SSS

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: What’s in the proposed heterosexual bill? How is it different from the SOGIESC Equality bill?

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 09, 2022 3:30 PM

    What’s in the proposed heterosexual bill and how is it different from the SOGIESC Equality bill?

    Bienvenido Abante Jr., Equality, gender, gender identity, heterosexual, LGBTQIA, Risa Hontiveros, sexual orientation, SOGIE

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Can dragon fruit serve as an alternate crop for rice?

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 08, 2022 1:50 PM

    Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos said recently that farmers can earn more by planting dragon fruit alternately with rice. “’Yung Taiwan malaki ang demanda ng dragon fruit (Taiwan […]

    Agriculture, dragon fruit, farmers, Malaysia, Philippines, Sandro Marcos, taiwan, Vietnam

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds
    Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

    What are confidential and intelligence funds? For what can these be used?

    2023, commission on audit, confidential funds, Department of Budget and Management, Edcel Lagman, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, General Appropriations Act, house of representatives, intelligence funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Is having 110 million Filipinos good or bad?

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 26, 2022 1:13 PM

    In a press conference on Nov. 21, Justice Secretary Boying Remulla defended the decision of the Philippine delegation to reject the United Nations Human Rights Council’s recommendation to decriminalize abortion. […]

    8 billion, Boying Remulla, Filipino, Human rights, Philippines, Population, United Nations

  • Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: UN body’s universal periodic review of PH human rights situation explained

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 13, 2022 11:24 PM

    What is universal periodic review (UPR) of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council and its relevance to improving the human rights situation in the country? Here are five things you should know.

    bongbong marcos, Human rights, UN OHCHR, United Nations, upr

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