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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte flip-flops on missing APEC dinner and photo shoot

Duterte flip-flops on missing APEC dinner and photo shoot from VERA Files on Vimeo. AFTER missing the U.S.-Asean meeting last September, President Rodrigo Duterte once again skipped a scheduled meeting with other world leaders. Duterte was a no-show at the gala dinner and the traditional leaders’ photo shoot during the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec)

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte flip-flops on missing APEC dinner and photo shoot

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte now wants to woo the EU?

DOES President Rodrigo Duterte now want to be part of an alliance he once found “hypocritical?” Months after launching an expletive-laden attack on the European Union (EU), Duterte seems to have shifted his tone.  STATEMENT: On Nov. 19, during his first bilateral meeting in Peru with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, whose leadership he openly admires,

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte now wants to woo the EU?

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Was Malacañang unaware of the Marcos burial?

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said he knew nothing about the clandestine burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) on Nov. 18. In a press conference on Nov. 21 in Lima, Peru, Duterte said he never bothered to ask the late president’s family for the details of the burial. STATEMENT

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Was Malacañang unaware of the Marcos burial?

Marcos burial a ‘calculated risk’ — lawyer

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AS protests rage over the Marcos burial, a human rights lawyer and anti-Martial law advocate said any attempt to overturn the Supreme Court ruling would have slim chance of succeeding.  In burying the remains of former president Ferdinand Marcos pending the finality of the SC decision, the Marcos family banked on a

Marcos burial a ‘calculated risk’ — lawyer

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte wants forgiveness after Marcos burial?

AS THE surprise burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Nov. 18 triggered massive protests on the streets, President Rodrigo Duterte sought to unify Filipinos. Upon arriving in Lima, Peru for the 24th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders’ Meeting, he said in a statement: “I would like to pray

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte wants forgiveness after Marcos burial?

Marcos burial: A day of celebration and outrage

Text by MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AND AVIGAIL OLARTE Video by LUCILLE SODIPE CLAD in white shirts and red bandanas bearing the famous peace sign, loyalists of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos clutched the shut gates of the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Nov. 18, the day of the burial. They wanted to be let in

Marcos burial: A day of celebration and outrage

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Were there really no movies about the martial law years?

STATEMENT: The clandestine burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) Friday angered many, prompting a wave of protests across the country. In response, President Rodrigo Duterte, who in his campaign days promised the interment of the deposed strongman at the LNMB, called for “forgiveness.” Currently in Lima, Peru

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Were there really no movies about the martial law years?