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Last week, Iceland led the United Nations Human Rights Commission in drafting a resolution that calls for concrete actions, which could also include UN investigation, into the alleged drug war in the Philippines.The move ruffled many feathers, particularly those of Senator Vicente ...

Beware: Sharing other people’s photos online could be considered sexual harassment, according to the Safe Spaces Act, a new law in the Philippines. The law prohibits catcalling, wolf whistling, and unwanted sexual advances, but also defines the prohibited acts online.Many thought that ...

Born and raised in San Juan City, Francis Zamora III was exposed early on to local politics. His father, Ronaldo “Ronnie” Zamora, congressman of the lone district of San Juan, was first elected as a Parliament member of the Interim Batasaan Pambansa ...

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Global Rights Index is an annual report that lists the best countries to work in, based on the country’s promotion of workers’ welfare. For three consecutive years, the Philippines has been named one of the world’s ...

Jobellyn Barbasa serves as chef de cuisine, the highest position in the kitchen of Escolta at the Peninsula Manila. Barbasa joined the culilnary industry in 2012, and quickly rose through the ranks.“When I started at Escolta Restaurant, it was very difficult because I ...

It is a long held belief here in the shebeen that, thanks to those clever Chinese climate hoaxsters, the next world wars are going to be fought not over oil, but over water. This is especially true in places like India, which ...

In an incredible twist of irony during National Heritage Month, the Supreme Court of the Philippines on Sunday, May 26, 2019, upheld a decision it made in October 2018 declaring Filipino and Panitikan (Literature) as non-core subjects in college, meaning they are ...

We’ve all encountered protest art at least once: the unsubtle writing on the wall calling for an end to imperialism, an effigy of the President being burned or maimed during a protest, or songs and stories about the harsh realities of society. ...

The Philippines may see the end of contractual employment, more commonly known as "Endo."Endo, which refers to the end of contract of employment, is a legal loophole sometimes used by companies in order to cut costs. In this practice, workers are terminated ...

In the entire course of Philippine politics, very few Filipino statesmen have held office. That is because a politician is the opposite of a statesman: a politician preserves political capital for survival, while a statesman expends political capital to uphold principles. A politician ...

This year’s elections are one of the most contentious in the history of the Automated Election System. Massive reports of electoral fraud by citizens and poll watchdog groups, documented cases of blatant red-tagging and black propaganda by state forces, rampant vote-buying, and violence in the ...

In the recent midterm elections, five members of the Ejercito-Estrada clan ran for public office. All five of them lost, marking the end of the 50-year political run of one of the Philippines’ most prominent political families.The Estradas began their public career ...

According to someone who spoke Latin a very long time ago, “ignorantia legis neminem excusat,” which means, ignorance of the law excuses no one—lest we get arrested. To avoid this, we combed through some of the COMELEC’s voluminous rules and regulations regarding ...

Ping Lacson, Philippine senator and inadvertent politics critic by way of Twitter, has summed up our feelings over the upcoming elections via a tweet. Lacson wished good candidates good luck and the bad candidates to lose."To all the decent, well-intentioned, honest, selfless, disciplined, ...

Grace Poe’s story is the stuff of fairy tales… and teleseryes.As an infant, Grace was abandoned in a church in Jaro, Iloilo, where she was discovered by Chayong, a prayerful woman who worked as a housemaid. Grace lived with Chayong and her ...

If you’re reading this, you’re part of the relatively small portion of the electorate who knows who Chel Diokno is.Step outside your comfort zone, and you’ll find that most of the tarpaulins and posters that blanket public walls belong to administration bets ...

Nancy Binay has remained pretty much below the radar for most of the last six years she’s been in the Senate. The few times she’s been the center of attention was unintentional on her part, as armchair warriors bashed her sartorial style, more ...

It is an early morning schedule with re-electionist Juan Edgardo Angara, more popularly known as Sonny Angara. He walks into his father’s house looking and sounding like he could benefit from more hours of sleep and rest. Weeks of campaigning, hopping from ...

As the 2019 senatorial elections loom ever closer, the issue of partisanship has taken center stage. Two major slates have emerged: the administration’s Hugpong ng Pagbabago and the Liberal Party’s Otso Diretso. Other opposition bets have appeared as well: the Makabayan bloc ...

Senatorial candidate Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa made headlines last month when he said he has no more time for debates. Days later, another headline quoted the former chief of police saying people attend political sorties to be entertained and not to listen to issues. He ...