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SEN. Risa Hontiveros has pushed for the creation of a specialty hospital for senior citizens to ensure that they receive quality and age-appropriate health care. The senator filed Senate Bill (SB) ...
SHOULD Filipino Catholics — four-fifths of the nation — be more vocal and active in politics? For two upcoming events in the Archdiocese of Manila — a July 26 archdiocesan meeting on Church ...
The drama began with a plate of ‘humba’, but the true cause of the shouting match was a bitter power struggle for control.
Napoles, long associated with the multibillion-peso pork barrel scam, has been sentenced again by the Sandiganbayan. She received a combined 55 years in prison for misusing ₱7.55 million in Priority ...
A FEW months ago, things looked grim for Sara Duterte, the vice-president of the Philippines. The country’s House of ...
WHEN Vice President Sara Duterte told overseas Filipino workers in Kuwait on Aug. 15 that Philippine education was still ...
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Is the Filipino worth dying for?

Tomorrow, Aug. 21, 2025, some of us will commemorate the murder or assassination of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. on the apron of the Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983.
A novel Philippine Commission on Elections resolution targeting discriminatory campaign behaviour is an important step in turning sexism from a political weapon into a political cost.