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Environmental Excellence Award

The PH Insider Coverage Team -
CLARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is honored to receive the Environmental Excellence Award (Large Company Category) from the Metro Angeles Chamber...
Metro

State Agents Spying On Student Activists

Jai Duena -
WHAT WAS SUPPOSEDLY a peaceful yet meaningful protest against systemic corruption turned into a golden opportunity for alleged state...
Feature

P1.2B Wasted Over BPE Postponement 

Fernan Angeles -
THE COMMISSION ON Elections (Comelec) can no longer afford another postponement of the Bangsamoro Parliamentary Elections (BPE) amid the...
Tech

Gov’t Spots Identity Theft Via Eye Scanning

Jai Duena -
DESPITE THE ENACTMENT of laws primarily designed to protect Filipinos from digital pirates, the Philippines has remained vulnerable to...
Politics

Junior’s Formula: Purge Crooks To Restore Order

admin -
WITH ALL CERTAINTY, the flood control scandal has grown beyond control for which the government suffered a significant drop...
Business

Gov’t oversight expanded to PPP projects

Rose de la Cruz -
TO BETTER AVOID anomalies in project costs, releases and implementation, the government has expanded the threshold of oversight by...
On The Road

No Forex For Pinoy Tourists In Norway 

Rose de la Cruz -
FROM HOW IT looks, Norwegian businesses engaged in foreign exchange (forex) don’t seem keen on the idea of trading...
Feature

Anti-Poor: LEDAC Agenda Only For A Few

Rose de la Cruz -
THE PRIORITY AGENDA lined up by the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council for the 20th Congress is unsuited for...
Business

MVP’s Maynilad Keen On Villar’s PrimeWater

Fernan Angeles -
BUSINESS TYCOON Manny V. Pangilinan doesn’t seem to be bothered with the problems hounding Villar-owned PrimeWater Infrastructure Corporation, even...

Lifestyle News

Entertainment

Casa Alegria: Where Peace Meets the Sky

Cheryl Luis True -
PERCHED HIGH ON a steep hill with a front-row view of the world-famous Taal Lake and Volcano, Casa Alegria is more than just a stay—it’s a...
Entertainment

Tasting Tomorrow

Cheryl Luis True -
IN A QUIET town nestled in Iloilo’s 3rd District, a flavorful revolution is taking shape. The Slow Food Community in Bingawan is proving that sustainability can taste...
Entertainment

Look Ma, She Gives Birth To A Movie Projector

Boy Villasanta -
MAKING THE IMPLAUSIBLE plausible. As long as one is gifted at defying tradition, rule, logic etc. logically, why not? That's the wonder of cinema no matter...
Entertainment

Once More With Feelings, Politics And Showbiz Complement Each Other

Boy Villasanta -
WHO SAYS ENTERTAINMENT and politics are strange bedfellows? They aren't. Showbiz and governance are complementary with each other. Or more to it, they are one and the...
Entertainment

Cloud Haven

Cheryl Luis True -
I THOUGHT I was just visiting a mountain barangay. But Aningalan, San Remegio—the so-called Little Baguio of Panay—turned out to be something else entirely....
Entertainment

THE PH INSIDER HOUR

Maribel Asis J. -
Watch Atty. Reyzandro Unay and co-hosts broadcaster Ox Ballado and Atty. Eugene Riego from 8 to 9 every Friday at D8TV. This digital-terrestrial television...
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EDITORS' PICK

Restoring The Iconic Manila Post Office 

Ernesto Reyes -
TWO YEARS AND four months after a vicious fire gutted down an iconic structure at the heart of Manila, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) renewed its commitment to restore the century-old building referred to as the Manila Central Post Office. According to DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon, the...

COLUMNS

Notarized Notoriety

Tracy Cabrera -
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.                      ...

The Day My Body Betrayed Me (and My Eyelids...

Gwenn Canlas -
YOU EVER LOOK in the mirror and think, “Wow, I look exhausted,” except you’re not? You slept eight hours, downed two espressos, and still...

Limitless Chaos

Boni Macaranas -
AFTER THE REVELATION of the Discayas’ billions of profits, theacquisition of more than 30 luxury cars and P7.1 tax evasion, given their business of...

Develop, Implement An Anti-Corruption Program

Raymund Narag -
THE POINT OF awakening has come. At long last, the Filipino people have seen corruption not as an abstract evil, not as a distant...

Ecological Conversion Called Anew

Erlie Lopez -
IN THE OPENING of the “Raising Hope for Climate Justice”international conference in Rome on October 1 marking the 10thanniversary of the landmark encyclical Laudato...

Closing Resorts In Marikina Watershed Is Best

Rose de la Cruz -
A WATERSHED LIKE that in Marikina– which not only supplies us with potable water but also shields us and our water resources from silts...

Walk Your Talk, Boying

Fernan Angeles -
EVEN BEFORE HE was appointed as Ombudsman, then Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla managed to make an impression on the members of the Judicial Bar...

Anger Unplugged: The Real Reason Voices Rise

Vivien Mangalindan -
YOU KNOW THAT moment when someone’s face turns red, their voice shoots up, and suddenly the air feels heavy? And there it is —...

What To Expect From Ombudsman Remulla

Rose de la Cruz -
THE APPOINTMENT OF Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla to the Office of Ombudsman is a cause of fear for many who opposed him politically and...
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EDITORIAL

Never Ending Saga

Luchie Aclan Arguelles -
DESPITE THE CREATION of an independent commission tasked to dig deeper into the anomalous infrastructure projects, the government’s so-called advocacy against corruption has yet...

NEWS MAGAZINE

October 1 – 15, 2025 Edition

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National

Flagged, Dragged

Angel F. Jose -
FROM HOW IT looks, another political appointee under the previous administration will be made face the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) for the construction...
National

Good Enough, Ain’t Enough

Angel F. Jose -
MONTHS AFTER BEING dropped from the greylist of countries notoriously famous for money laundering and terrorism financing, the Philippines seemed on its way back...
National

Wet Season May Last Until February 2026

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THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM on floods brought about by the rainy days — and the government’s failure to come up with “existent” flood control projects,...
National

Environmental Excellence Award

The PH Insider Coverage Team -
CLARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is honored to receive the Environmental Excellence Award (Large Company Category) from the Metro Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc....
Provincial

Ongchuan’s Transformative Leadership 

Tracy Cabrera -
AWAY FROM THE ignoble performance of high-ranking officials in government and even lawmakers in both Houses of Congress now embroiled in the flood control...
Column

Notarized Notoriety

Tracy Cabrera -
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.                      ...
Entertainment

Look Ma, She Gives Birth To A Movie Projector

Boy Villasanta -
MAKING THE IMPLAUSIBLE plausible. As long as one is gifted at defying tradition, rule, logic etc. logically, why not? That's the wonder of cinema no matter...
Column

The Day My Body Betrayed Me (and My Eyelids Told the Story)

Gwenn Canlas -
YOU EVER LOOK in the mirror and think, “Wow, I look exhausted,” except you’re not? You slept eight hours, downed two espressos, and still...
Column

Limitless Chaos

Boni Macaranas -
AFTER THE REVELATION of the Discayas’ billions of profits, theacquisition of more than 30 luxury cars and P7.1 tax evasion, given their business of...
Column

Develop, Implement An Anti-Corruption Program

Raymund Narag -
THE POINT OF awakening has come. At long last, the Filipino people have seen corruption not as an abstract evil, not as a distant...
Column

Ecological Conversion Called Anew

Erlie Lopez -
IN THE OPENING of the “Raising Hope for Climate Justice”international conference in Rome on October 1 marking the 10thanniversary of the landmark encyclical Laudato...
Column

Closing Resorts In Marikina Watershed Is Best

Rose de la Cruz -
A WATERSHED LIKE that in Marikina– which not only supplies us with potable water but also shields us and our water resources from silts...
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