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In Defense Of Order: Martires Right About...

THE ARTICLE “Good Riddance to the Ombudsman Who Enabled Corruption” portrays Ombudsman Samuel Martires as an official who hid...

Environmental Excellence Award

CLARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is honored to receive the Environmental Excellence Award (Large Company Category) from the Metro Angeles Chamber...

State Agents Spying On Student Activists

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

P1.2B Wasted Over BPE Postponement 

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

Gov’t Spots Identity Theft Via Eye Scanning

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

Junior’s Formula: Purge Crooks To Restore Order

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

Gov’t oversight expanded to PPP projects

TO BETTER AVOID anomalies in project costs, releases and implementation, the government has expanded the threshold of oversight by...

No Forex For Pinoy Tourists In Norway 

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

Anti-Poor: LEDAC Agenda Only For A Few

THE PRIORITY AGENDA lined up by the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council for the 20th Congress is unsuited for...

Casa Alegria: Where Peace Meets the Sky

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...

Tasting Tomorrow

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...

Look Ma, She Gives Birth To A Movie Projector

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...

Once More With Feelings, Politics And Showbiz Complement Each Other

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...

Cloud Haven

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....

THE PH INSIDER HOUR

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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Free Burial, But Not Much For The Sick?

AN OUNCE OF prevention is with all certainty better than  cure — except in cases when the cure is also prevention. In what looks more like a law that is way beyond morbid, if not totally disparaging, Malacanang boasted of a new law embarking on free funeral services for those...

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Notarized Notoriety

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EDITORIAL

Never Ending Saga

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...

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Casa Alegria: Where Peace Meets the Sky

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...

Tasting Tomorrow

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...

Infra Projects Just For Espina’s Roving Premier? 

THE MAN OF the hour — Secretary Vince Dizon — has suddenly found unlikely whistleblowers in his search for infrastructure irregularities across the archipelago. In...

Lean COA Team Drafts Reforms To Deter Graft

UNDERMANNED COMMISSION ON Audit (COA) after finding itself in a fix from one of its commissioners, drafted measures and collaborated with other agencies to...

Flagged, Dragged

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

Good Enough, Ain’t Enough

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

Wet Season May Last Until February 2026

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

Environmental Excellence Award

CLARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is honored to receive the Environmental Excellence Award (Large Company Category) from the Metro Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc....

Ongchuan’s Transformative Leadership 

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...

Notarized Notoriety

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

Look Ma, She Gives Birth To A Movie Projector

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...

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

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...