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No, Thank You to EU: Where Does the PH Stand on Human Rights?


  THE RELATIVELY brief history of PH-EU relations has been a good one, with clear benefits for the two partners in many ways. In recent years, the 28-member bloc has become the country’s largest foreign investor and a generous source of official development aid (ODA), most of which goes...

Looking Into Rice Importation


  IN THE PHILIPPINES, few things are more important than rice, the supply and the cost of this basic food staple, which if not included in a meal, most Filipinos feel as though they had not eaten. The Philippines is the ninth largest producer of rice in the world but...

Probing Philippines-China Business Relations


  PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte has been in office less than a year, but he has already gone on 20 trips abroad, eight of which were state visits, six were official, one was a working visit and others were to attend forums and summits. Each time he returns, Malacañang trumpets...

Militarizing the Cabinet?


  PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte has appointed several military men, retired and incumbent, to key positions in his administration. Several of his predecessors, including the late President Cory Aquino, had done the same thing. Should the practice be cause for concern? GMA-7 reporter Sandra Aguinaldo asked precisely this question on 24...

‘Spoiled and Rotten Information’: Debunking PNA’s Fake News


  THE ADMINISTRATION of President Rodrigo Duterte has developed the habit of admonishing the media for reporting “fake news”— reports which are either critical of the administration, particularly its bloody war on drugs, or those lacking “creative imagination” to decipher the President’s candid and at times rather incendiary remarks....

Reporting “Glut” in Negros Energy Supply


  WHILE SEVERAL provinces in the country have been hit by rotational power outages, Negros has an oversupply of renewable energy, totaling almost thrice the less-than-300 MW it needs. Negros derives its power supply from solar energy plants that produce 323.5 megawatts (MW), biomass plants which account for 56.3...

Countering the Restrictive Definition of EJKs


TWO ONLINE publications have refuted a statement made by Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano before the United Nations Human Rights Council  (UNHRC) in defense of the Duterte administation’s war on drugs. The former senator  had accused the media and critics of President Rodrigo Duterte of tarnishing the administration’s image...

Misleading Headline


  STORIES ABOUT peace talks and related matters must not only be accurate. Reports must also be careful not to inflame emotions. This also applies to the headlines, as, in this age of digital media, there are many who limit newsreading only to the headlines, clicking no further to...

Cross-checking the Numbers


  AFTER THE much-publicized confirmation hearings, the Commission on Appointments (CA) rejected the nomination of Gina Lopez as Environment Secretary on May 3. Lopez was the second to be rejected by the appointment body, following Perfecto Yasay Jr. Although done via secret voting in an executive session, the CA...

Duterte and the ICC: Online Takes Time to Explain and Explore


  IT’S ALWAYS difficult to report on a court case as this usually involves legal terms. For non-lawyer journalists, it poses a challenge. Judicial systems involve complex processes and require terms that change according to countries and jurisdictions. What more a special court like the International Criminal Court (ICC)?...

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