A penchant for payback
Filipinos are big on being loyal and acknowledging debts of gratitude. It’s our strong suit, but it could also be ...
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Here come the butterflies
AT LEAST 50 newly elected congressmen from the Liberal Party have expressed interest to cross over to the Partido Demokratiko ...
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The wrong message
Just last week, under the glow of victory, the people around Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said they envisioned a ...
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A sturdy economy
President-in-waiting Rodrigo Duterte, like his predecessor President Benigno Aquino III, is inheriting a sturdy economy. Duterte will have the luck ...
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An early gaffe
It was heartening, what Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said during his press conference Monday that he would not entertain ...
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Comelec assurances insufficient
ALLEGATIONS of election irregularities are easy to dismiss when they come from a losing candidate, but when university professors with ...
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Dictated by the weather
The past several months were tough—and we don’t mean in politics. The El Niño phenomenon wrought so much suffering on ...
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A place for women
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is not known for his high regard of women. In fact, he is notorious for ...
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What we expect of Duterte
The Aquino administration has highlighted the solid economic growth of the Philippines during the recent campaign period. Many in the ...
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Freeing information
When then-candidate Benigno Aquino III was courting the support of voters in 2010, one of the things he promised was ...
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