The 6Gs of PH elections
"Guns, goons, gold, glitter, guile, greed" If politics is defined as the art of expanding the limits of the possible, Filipino politicians may have outdone...
Read more"Guns, goons, gold, glitter, guile, greed" If politics is defined as the art of expanding the limits of the possible, Filipino politicians may have outdone...
Read more"The truth will have its day." Although 107,000 of the Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) performed flawlessly, during the early hours of voting on May 9,...
Read more"Moving forward, we need to ask questions." Now that the dust has started to settle in perhaps the country’s most hotly contested elections in recent...
Read more"We eagerly await the outcome of the elections on Monday." How do foreign analysts view the country's economic and political prospects under a new administration...
Read more"The constitutional prohibition on political dynasties is sound in principle and should be fully implemented with an enabling law." What’s wrong with it is this:...
Read more"We’re likely to see it with even greater ferocity in the years ahead, for as long as greed underpins our political system." How different are...
Read more"It appears there is no way but up." Which way will Philippines-China relations go in the next six years? If the recent hour-long telesummit between...
Read more"In the past weeks, we have seen the almost non-stop mass exodus of people from other camps." What's clear at this point in the presidential...
Read more"There is no turning back." If there are still people who insist that automated elections are unreliable because they are vulnerable to fraud, maybe we...
Read more"It is clear that the Marcos family owes the nation billions of pesos." Regardless of the arguments of the lawyer-cum-spokesman of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., it...
Read moreHanoi—Ageless runner Eric Cray, cue artist Rubilen Amit, taekwondo jin Kurt Barbosa, and a muay thai duo saved the day...
Read moreSpeaker Lord Allan Velasco on Tuesday endorsed House Majority Leader and Leyte 1st District Rep. Martin Romualdez as his successor...
Read moreWith Republic Act 11709 officially a law, only the best officers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) can...
Read moreThe Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday said it has detected local transmission of the COVID-19 Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 as...
Read morePresident Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law recognizing abandoned children found in the country or in Philippine embassies and consulates...
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