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[ANALYSIS] Can Duterte ward off a coronavirus economic slump?
With the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Philippines rising nearly tenfold (5 to 49) in just 6 days, it’s clear the disease won’t go away any time soon.Data suggest there should be a lot...
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[ANALYSIS] Amid the coronavirus crisis, where have all the sin tax funds gone?
It is now accurate to say that the country is facing a crisis amid the COVID-19 outbreak. From having only 3 cases last week, it has now jumped to 33 – and counting. From the claim made by the health...
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Pahayag ni VP Leni Robredo sa nagbabagong sitwasyon ukol sa COVID-19
Gaya ng ating panata, patuloy ang pagdaloy ng makabuluhang impormasyon mula sa Tanggapan ng Pangalawang Pangulo. Patuloy ang pagkonsulta natin sa mga eksperto. Patuloy ang ating pagsubaybay sa...
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[OPINION] Pens and placards: On campus journalists as student activists
“News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.” – Katharine Graham You see, campus journalism through the years is mostly institutional advertising in Philippine universities....
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[OPINION] With the coronavirus crisis, it's business unusual
For most of us in Corporate Philippines, life goes like clockwork and often for good reasons. Being creatures of habit and natural allocators, we have most likely optimized our routines so as to allot...
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[OPINION] In defense of a Lenten lockdown
The following piece was written on March 11, a day before President Rodrigo Duterte announced that Metro Manila would be placed on lockdown to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. This country...
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[OPINYON | Wikapedia] Anak ka ng virus!
Kung talagang nag-lockdown tayo ngayon, siguradong iuugnay ito sa pagiging Friday the 13th nito.Maliban na lamang kung di ka lang lohikal kundi rasyunal na indibiduwal.Alam mong ang lahat ng bunga ay...
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[OPINION | Dash of SAS] Dear PNP, this is how you write a rape prevention ad
Dear PNP, You probably meant well when you released yet another rape prevention ad last month, but once again you missed the point. The PNP Angono station also came out with a problematic rape...
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[OPINION] Let’s not forget the poor during the coronavirus pandemic
Back in 1998, I helped conduct a study on "Elite Perceptions of Inequality and Poverty in the Philippines," which included in-depth interviews and semi-structured surveys with nearly 100 of the...
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[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] The incidental virus
The new coronavirus may be the scourge of the time – it has been declared a pandemic, after all – but trust President Duterte to have other things in mind. On the evening of his nationwide broadcast...
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[OPINION] Novel coronavirus: Shared responsibility for us all
The upheaval caused by the coronavirus– COVID-19 is all around us. And I know many are anxious, worried and confused. That’s absolutely natural.We are facing a health threat unlike any other in our...
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[OPINION] Combatting regressive lawfare: How a system gone wrong can still be...
This is the condensed version of the lecture entitled, “Weaponizing Lawfare in the Philippines,” delivered at Plenary IV: Combatting Lawfare: Strategies and Responses of the “International Forum on...
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[OPINION] Notes from a supermarket on the last day of freedom
I write this just minutes after returning from the supermarket. We had headed there to buy ingredients for dinner – just one dinner, tonight’s dinner, just enough sinigang for two – but knew full well...
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[OPINION] I’m a psychologist – here’s how I manage my worries about the...
Are you checking your social media feed for coronavirus updates– a lot? Did you buy toilet paper or rubbing alcohol more than you need? Are you wondering if you counted 20 seconds when washing your...
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[OPINION] The Pope and single-use plastics
What is more urgent and effective: go big or start small?This is one of the fundamental questions I encounter when addressing the climate crisis. Some would argue that given the need to drastically...
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[OPINION] We have to support our health workers
It’s been 9 years since I last wore my nurse’s uniform. Though I left this profession a long time ago, I feel that my instincts as a nurse have somewhat remained. This is why after learning of the...
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[ANALYSIS] The flawed economics of Duterte’s partial Metro Manila lockdown
To contain the further spread of COVID-19, on March 12 President Rodrigo Duterte put all of Metro Manila under partial lockdown (technically “community quarantine”) from March 15 to April 14....
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[OPINION] What will we tell future generations about the coronavirus?
Yesterday afternoon, I drove to Antipolo to visit my parents. With the NCR quarantine taking effect today, I won't be able to see them face-to-face for at least a month.Over an early dinner, my mom and...
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[EDITORIAL] A wounded society faces a pandemic
This morning, we woke up to humongous traffic in the entry points to Metro Manila. But the scariest part is that our rate of contagion has exponentially increased from 10 to 140 affected in just 7...
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[OPINION] Loving your country is very different from loving your government
I believe this started during the Philippines' hosting of the 2019 SEA Games, when there were many organizing mishaps – the foreign athletes' poor accommodations, the P50-million opening ceremony...
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