CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Crackdown on corruption? Few reports question Duterte’s “mega task force”

ADMITTING THAT corruption persists under his term, President Rodrigo Duterte on October 27 instructed the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of corruption “in the entire government.” Speaking in... Read more

ABS-CBN News YouTube channels back online hours after shutdown

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — ABS-CBN News and ANC (ABS-CBN News Channel) YouTube channels are back online a few hours after they were suspended by YouTube. The video streaming platform suspended the... Read more

More terror from anti-terrorism law’s IRR

WITH 37 PETITIONS filed before the Supreme Court questioning its constitutionality, the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)has become one of the most contested laws in recent history. After it was signed... Read more

Disaster response lacking in anti-COVID-19 measures

AS THE country braces itself for the landfall of Typhoon Rolly, the 18th tropical cyclone to hit the country this year, the government seems at a loss about how... Read more

Beyond the “drama”: Reports spotlight human rights violations in Baby River’s burial

THE “CRUEL and inhumane” treatment of a jailed activist during the burial of her three-month-old daughter made international headlines last week. Baby River was the daughter of Reina Mae... Read more

Vicente “Vic” Tirol, 75

CMFR MOURNS the passing of veteran journalist, publisher and dear friend Vicente “Vic” Tirol last October 19. He was 75. A UP Journalism graduate, Tirol began his career in... Read more

Huge drop in drug user numbers? OneNews.ph disputes DDB’s claim

EVEN WITH the COVID-19 crisis, the Duterte administration has continued to fix its attention on the “drug” problem, the object of his centerpiece policy campaign from the very start... Read more

Vic Tirol: In very fond memory

by Vergel O. Santos VIC TIROL and I belonged in the same generation of journalists. We knew the press when its freedom burned properly fiercely, when it was killed... Read more

Cayetano, Velasco, and Sara Duterte

SPEAKER ALAN Peter Cayetano (1st Dist., Taguig City) finally tendered his irrevocable resignation and conceded the fight for speakership after an election that gave Rep. Lord Allan Velasco the... Read more

Roque’s publicity stunt diverts media attention from tourism issues

THE EIGHT months of strict lockdowns severely affected the country’s tourism sector with an estimated PHP190 billion in lost revenues. The restart is being done in phases. Only two... Read more