What’s the real score with overworked Filipinos? We’re taking a closer look. Last week Senator Grace Poe cited data from the Philippine Statistics Authority
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Duterte creates inter-agency body for war on drugs
The 18-member committee, headed by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, is divided into 4 clusters: enforcement, justice, advocacy, and rehabilitation MANILA, Philippines – President
HRW: PH risks being lumped with North Korea, Syria
Would you really want to be mentioned in the same breath as North Korea and Syria? A Human Rights Watch (HRW) official posed this
Lonely at the top; on moral stamina
A FRIEND who attended last weekend’s Philippine Military Academy (PMA) rites where Digong spoke, found it weird that he would talk on a solemn
Impunity in PH? Ramos says ‘it’s starting to be like that’
MANILA, Philippines – Former president Fidel V. Ramos told Rappler that there is an emerging culture of impunity in the Philippines because of the
UP in the time of Duterte: ‘Observe, speak up for the truth’
MANILA, Philippines – With all that is happening in the country today, outgoing University of the Philippines (UP) president Alfredo Pascual said the country’s
‘Opinions’ in Amnesty Int’l report ‘obviously not the norm’ – PNP
The Philippine national Police (PNP) on Wednesday, February 1, said it has always “observed and upheld human rights” as it slammed an Amnesty International
Rich, not poor, to bear brunt of oil, automobile tax – DOF
The Department of Finance (DOF) defended its proposed tax reform package from critics who say aspects of it, such as the higher oil and
Bishop on killings: Filipinos ‘quiet like in time of Hitler’
‘Let us boldly reject merciless ways of dealing with the most miserable, including our drug addicts,’ Bishop Teodoro Bacani says at the Mercy Congress
Is federalism the silver bullet?
If federalism is to bring fundamental change, then the dynasties and the oligarchs should face greater competition Shortly after the fall of the Marcos
