VERA Files
Sabi ng MTRCB, walang sapat na basehan para i-ban ang Barbie movie dahil hindi naman ipinakikita dito ang “nine-dash line” claim ng China.
The MTRCB said, there is no sufficient basis to ban the Barbie movie because China’s “nine-dash line” claim is not shown here.
A video posted on YouTube used an old clip and claimed to show the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) driving away a Vietnamese fishing vessel in Palawan. This is false. Shown in the video were Indonesian authorities confronting a Vietnamese vessel illegally fishing in the Natuna Sea in 2020. Posted on May 9, the one-minute and […]
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 has a high demand for dragon fruit). Eh [but] they can only plant dragon fruit three or four times, three or four months of the […]
Ang dragon fruit ba ay isang magandang alternatibong pananim sa palay? Maaari bang i-export ang prutas sa Taiwan?
Press freedom in the Philippines does not fare better than Singapore and Malaysia, according to the Paris-based World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders.
Iginiit na “hindi patas” ang ginawa ng Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ng United Nations na ipahayag ang kanilang mga alalahanin sa mga ulat ng mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa bansa, kabilang ang pagkakapatay sa mamamahayag na si Percy Lapid, maling iginiit ni Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri na ang Pilipinas ay may “napakamalayang media” kumpara sa mga bansang tulad ng Malaysia, Singapore at Vietnam.
The Ho Chi Minh Center for Disease Control has given more information about the child’s hospitalization.
“Fake news are created by humans. Thus, only humans can recognize and solve this issue.” This motto appears on the website of Southeast Asia’s newest fact checker – the government-run Vietnam Anti-Fake News Center.
A Vietnamese academic pierced whatever illusion about the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea being worked out between ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and China and being coordinated by the Philippines.