OP-ED COLUMN: FLEA MARKET OF IDEAS – Transformational leader or false messiah?
By Joel Ruiz Butuyan Rodrigo Duterte was elected as our country’s president because 16 million Filipinos pinned their hopes on
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Editorial
OP-ED COLUMN: OPINION ON PAGE ONE – Isn’t a Chinese military invasion a redundancy?
FRANCISCO S. TATAD TWO major Senate committees—those on foreign relations and on national defense and security—have decided to inquire into
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ASEANEWS EDITORIALS: OPINION & CARTOONS – ‘Expunging the record’ / ‘PEPSI PALOMA NIGHTMARE
What are we to make of a request by Senate President Vicente Sotto III to an online news site to
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ASEANEWS EDITORIALS: OPINION & CARTOONS – ‘On again, off again’
President Rodrigo Duterte has deferred peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines anew. According to a source from
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ASEANEWS EDITORIALS OPINION & CARTOONS: ‘Panatag is back in the news’
Panatag Shoal – also known locally as Bajo de Masinloc and internationally as Scarborough Shoal – was again in
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ASEANEWS EDITORIALS OPINION & CARTOONS: ‘Beleaguered peso’
Several domestic and foreign factors are eroding the value of the peso against the US currency and they may further
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ASEANEWS EDITORIAL CARTOONS ‘FISH OFFERING ISDA best!’
ASEANEWS EDITORIAL CARTOONS:. 7.1. The Daily Tribune ( WEBSITE CLOSED) . 7.2 The Manila Bulletin –A good beginning for Trump,
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MEDIA-TV BBC: ‘GRILLED’
Screengrab taken from the ‘Hard Talk’ interview with former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno by BBC journalist Stephen Sackur on
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COLUMN-OPINION: OPINION ON PAGE ONE – Have they started killing Catholic priests?
Nilo was preparing for a church service on Sunday when he was killed by unidentified gunmen [Ezra Acayan/Al Jazeera] .
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OP-ED EDITORIAL & CARTOONS: ‘Priests in the cross-hairs’
A Catholic priest being killed in this predominantly Roman Catholic country is unusual. So the murders of three priests within
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