Restart of Gov’t-NDF Peace Talks Must Address the Human Element

Restart of Gov’t-NDF Peace Talks Must Address the Human Element

Aside from “the serious socioeconomic and environmental issues, and the foreign security threats facing the country,” is there room in the peace talks framework to address the fratricidal war’s human costs and the need to repair the tattered social fabric?

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Marcos’ Year of Hits and Misses

Marcos’ Year of Hits and Misses

If 2023 was a year of hits and misses for the Marcos administration, it stands to reason that it should approach 2024 and the years beyond with even greater resolve to do better.

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Defying Goliath in the West Philippine Sea

Defying Goliath in the West Philippine Sea

A civilian supply mission braves harassment by Chinese navy ships and successfully delivers Christmas cheer to civilians and government personnel on islands in the West Philippine Sea.

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PH Runs a Cycle of Crisis-Induced OFW Aid

PH Runs a Cycle of Crisis-Induced OFW Aid

The cycle of crisis-induced assistance to affected OFWs never stops. The Philippines migration stakeholders have been running it for three decades.

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[Partner] “Remember Pearl Harbor… and the Philippines!”

[Partner] “Remember Pearl Harbor… and the Philippines!”

While Dec. 7, 1941 is a much celebrated national memorial on the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, much less is known or remembered about the Japanese attack on the Philippines on Dec. 8, 1941.

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A Stouthearted Peace-Builder

A Stouthearted Peace-Builder

Meet Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, the first female chief negotiator in the world to sign a final peace accord with a rebel group.

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Raping Sugarland

Raping Sugarland

How dictator Marcos and his cronies robbed sugar growers blind.

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The Stories Behind The Million-Dollar Donation

The Stories Behind The Million-Dollar Donation

Speaker Romualdez has neither confirmed nor denied the reported $1 million donation, which amounts to around 10% of his declared total net worth as of 2016.

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Why My Success Is Philippine Society’s Failure

Why My Success Is Philippine Society’s Failure

A new graduate who worked his way through college argues that rather than seeing his achievement and those of so many others as successes, they should be seen as systemic failures.

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Lingering Doubts About the 2022 Philippine Presidential Election

Lingering Doubts About the 2022 Philippine Presidential Election

Was the election of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. last year achieved through digital manipulation?

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