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Category: News

  • Categories Editor's Pick News THE ICC PROBE Duterte's Drug war

    ICC resumes full-blown investigation into Duterte administration’s drug war

    By IVEL JOHN M. SANTOS  |  Jan 27, 2023 9:02 AM

    The International Criminal Court will resume the investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in the war on drugs of the Duterte administration more than a year since it was suspended. […]


  • Categories Arts & Culture News

    Revisiting: The artistry of Abdulmari Asia Imao

    By R.C. Ladrido  |  Jan 23, 2023 8:40 PM

    The month of January 2023 marks Abdulmari Asia Imao’s 87th birth anniversary. He remains the first and only Muslim Filipino National Artist in Sculptor, 2006.


  • Rep. Edsel Lagman with advocates to help teen moms
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    State’s helping hand needed to break teenage pregnancy crisis

    By Tatiana Maligro  |  Jan 16, 2023 10:26 PM

    Rep. Edcel Lagman: No child should have to grow up overnight to take care of another human being.

    adolescent birth rates, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Bills, Edcel Lagman, Medical Action Group, sexual and reproductive health, teenage pregnancy

  • Human Rights Watch
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    HRW: Human rights situation in the Philippines ‘hardly changed’ under Marcos administration

    By Ivel John M. Santos  |  Jan 12, 2023 11:00 AM

    Attacks and abuses on human rights of Filipinos further proliferated in 2022 despite a new administration under President Ferdinand Marcos, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch (HRW).

    Human rights, Human Rights Watch, Marcos Jr. administration

  • Categories News

    SC declares unconstitutional a joint exploration deal by PH, China and Vietnam in the South China Sea 

    By Ellen Tordesillas  |  Jan 10, 2023 11:47 PM

    The Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional today a 2005 agreement on joint exploration by the Philippines, China, and Vietnam of an area in the disputed South China Sea.

    JMSU, South China Sea

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    Experts: Filipinos will only prioritize territorial integrity as national concern based on ‘signals’ from the government

    By Ivel John M. Santos  |  Jan 05, 2023 6:13 PM

    As leader of the nation, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. must place the defense of Philippine territory against foreign intrusion at the forefront of his administration to make it a top national concern by the public who are more worried about high prices, low wages, and unemployment.


  • Categories Earth Files News

    Experts weigh on creation of Department of Water to mitigate water scarcity

    By Siegfred Aldous Lacerna and Ann Gabrielle Domingo*  |  Jan 02, 2023 7:47 PM

    Staying past the bedtime hours so they can fill their jugs with water to make it through the next day is nothing new for 22-year old Lynex Joy Biquio, her family, and her neighbors in Quirino, Cagayan Valley.

    Dept. of Water

  • Christmas Lights at Tagbilaran City Hall (Jane Yap)
    Categories Earth Files News

    Typhoon Odette Survivors in Bohol Celebrate New Lease on Life

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Dec 28, 2022 6:11 PM

    Boholanos celebrate the Christmas season with vigor a year after Typhoon Odette robbed them of holiday joy.

    Bohol, Tagbilaran City, typhoon, Typhoon Odette

  • RepASEAN infographic: Tourist Arrivals in Siargao
    Categories Arts & Culture Earth Files Editor's Pick News

    A year after Odette, Siargao folk put the pieces of life back together

    By J-Ann Avila*, Reporting ASEAN  |  Dec 15, 2022 9:55 AM

    Siargao resident affected by 2021 typhoon Odette: We are doing better right now because we already recovered. There are many tourists again and it’s like we are going back to normal days.

    Project NOAH, Siargao, typhoon, Typhoon Odette

  • Atty Gilbert Andres with petitioners
    Categories News

    Pastors, church lay leader in outreach work seek protection against military personnel

    By Blanch Ancla  |  Nov 28, 2022 10:42 PM

    Fearing for their lives and security, two pastors and a lay leader of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) accused of being members of the New People’s Army (NPA) filed a petition for a writ of amparo before the Supreme Court on Monday against soldiers assigned to the 59th Infantry “Protector” Battalion in Bataan.

    red-tagging, UCCP, United Church of Christ in the Philippine

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