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[OPINION] ICC: Complementarity, not exhaustion of remedies
Some legal analysts contend that I should have exhausted legal remedies in the Philippines before I went to the ICC. They faulted me for failing to exhaust domestic legal remedies. Some even...
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[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] The Senate’s debt to history
A ghost from the recent past comes to haunt the Senate as it faces a challenge to its jurisdiction over Maria Lourdes Sereno.As an impeached chief justice, Sereno, by normal operation of law, stands...
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[EDITORIAL] #AnimatED: Unti-unti, sinasakal na si Juan ng bagong buwis
Nasa 30% ka ba ng pinakamahirap sa Pilipinas? Ikaw ang pangunahing tatamaan ng hagupit ng mataas na presyo ng krudo at pagkain.Ang inflation ay ang bilis ng pagmahal ng presyo ng batayang produkto....
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5 Philippine locations we would hate to see as celebrity prenup backdrops
Much has already been said about Billy Crawford and Colleen Garcia's scandalous shoot in Ethiopia – from issues of cultural appropriation (it is), to debates over whether netizens were just being...
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[OPINYON] Tarpo ng tropa mong trapo
Comelec lang naman yata ang naniniwalang 90 araw ang panahon ng kampanya para maging senador, 45 araw para sa lokal na posisyon, at 10 araw pababa para sa opisyal ng barangay. Ang buong sambayanang...
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[OPINION | Dash of SAS] Expiring women don’t get angry, they get busy
I suppose I should be angry at Harry Roque’s comment about “expiring women”.Sixteen years ago when I first became a single mother after walking out of my marriage, most of what I heard from people were...
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[OPINION] Part 2: Markets vs. Duterte: Are blanket bans a good idea?
In a previous piece, we explored President Rodrigo Duterte’s tendency to threaten, harass, and extort the private sector, especially big business.Here we explore yet another aspect of Duterte’s...
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[OPINION] Debunking Sotto's election fraud claims
On March 6, Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III gave a privilege speech, accusing the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Smartmatic of electoral fraud, which he claims would constitute “a case of...
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[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] A horrific cleanup job
How do we clean up after Duterte?It may seem premature to deal with that question since there's no telling when he will leave power. But it's precisely because he is power mad, and because we're surely...
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[OPINION] The day I became a rebel
"I always wanted to be part of a small rebellion."That line from Steven Spielberg's The Post brought me back in time, when I was in elementary. Weeks before our graduation, one of my teachers gave me a...
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[EDITORIAL] #AnimatED: Committing abuse just made easier
It didn’t come like a thief in the night, this new law signed by President Rodrigo Duterte in March that gives subpoena powers to the chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the top two...
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[OPINION] Misogyny is bad for all Filipinos
There is great dismay in Philippine feminist circles these days. It seems a week doesn’t pass when some government official and especially the President makes some appallingly misogynistic...
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[OPINION] Aftershocks in the Supreme Court
“In a highly politicized context as in the Philippines, appointment to the office of the Chief Justice based on seniority is a tradition that minimizes the jockeying for appointment within and outside...
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[OPINION] Divorce and the religious response
The tide has shifted.In a matter of years public opinion has changed in favor of legalizing divorce. In 2005 only 43% of adult Filipinos agreed that separated couples should be allowed to divorce. At...
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Basagan ng Trip with Leloy Claudio: 5 times nationalism goes overboard
MANILA, Philippines – We always thought unalloyed nationalism was ideal, but historian Leloy Claudio shatters the misconceptions and lists down 5 ways can be a bad thing.He walks us through the...
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The glaring double standard in Duterte’s Boracay shutdown
Boracay Island is now ground zero for tensions between the Duterte government and the private sector. On the one hand, President Duterte wants to shut down the “cesspool” that is Boracay Island for up...
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[OPINION] Challenges in deploying Filipino household service workers to China
In July 2017, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) revealed that there was a possibility for China to hire Filipino household service workers (HSWs) with a high salary of up to P100,000 per...
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[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] Conspiracy by quo warranto
As weighty as it sounds, the legal phrase "quo warranto" is easy enough to grasp in its basic sense: It's a court proceeding undertaken to resolve a challenge to a government official's fitness to keep...
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Should you blindly follow those Holy Week traditions?
It is Holy Week. God made these days holy – but not by His pains and sufferings. Pain alone cannot save us. God made these days holy by pouring much love into the sufferings He endured. Only love can...
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[OPINION] Climate change and PH seas: Unlocking blue carbon solutions
It was 2014 when I first set foot on an island community called Nasingin in Bohol. Nestled just below Banacon island, Nasingin is home to at least 2,400 people. The whole community stretches 1.7...
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