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‘Roly-poly’ digs ROTC, gigs, debating teacher
IN THE SUMMER of 1977, four young students graduating from the Ateneo de Manila high school applied for the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program, hoping to become Air Force cadet officers...
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La vida de La Bamba: Cheap films, frat, fun
EVERY Thursday afternoon two scores ago, a pack of students from the University of the Philippines in Diliman would jump on a bus and roar off to the cheap restaurants of Cubao or Quiapo. On Fridays,...
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‘Scary brilliant’ guy, zero social, love life
HIS LAW SCHOOL study buddies spew out superlatives when asked for proof that Gilberto Cojuangco Teodoro Jr., candidate for president of the administration Lakas-Kampi party, is true “Galing at Talino.”...
View ArticleThe College Lives of the Presidential Candidates
Our latest offering is a series of stories about the gigs, gimmicks and exploits in college of three candidates for president — the Liberal Party’s Benigno C. Aquino III, the Nacionalista Party’s...
View ArticlePolls big business for showbiz endorsers
THIS HAS become one star-studded election season, but few are under the delusion that artistas have suddenly been seized by profound political or social consciousness. Also see: Showbiz endorsers rule...
View ArticleShowbiz endorsers rule in Philippine elections
IT IS the lawyer who knows the law, it is the fisherman who knows how to fish, and it is the architect who knows how to design buildings. So why should voters rely on celebrities in choosing whom to...
View ArticleThe elections as fiesta
SimpleViewer Gallery Id cannot be found. BARANGAY ADDITION HILLS, MANDALUYONG CITY – It’s a historical moment in the country’s electoral history that also turned into a mammoth fiesta for local...
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Joke the vote, pun the bets
Barring last-minute surprises in the election count, the Noynoy-Nognog tandem will lead the next casting at Malacañang Palace in the next six years, according to funny-boned Filipinos. Nognog,...
View ArticleJaywalking EDSA
“Yung EDSA ’86 ba, kailan naganap?” “Hindi ko po talaga alam, sir.” The PCIJ asks young people what they know about the 1986 People Power revolution.
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Tiempo Muerto for Negros, Tiempo Suerte for Filipinos?
PAGLANSANG KAY HESUS The nailing of Christ to the cross is re-enacted during the Kalbaryo or the Calvary of Christ in the central Negros city of La Carlota. The start of the Holy Week also signals the...
View ArticleCOA’s Heidi Mendoza nominated as UN Usec-Gen for Oversight
HEIDI MENDOZA, commissioner of the Philippines’s Commission on Audit, has been nominated to a senior position in the United Nations. In a press advisory released from New York oct. 5, the UN said...
View ArticleIn 9 wks, drug war tally: 192 killed, 8,110 arrested, 35K ‘surrendered’
THE WAR on drugs in the last nine weeks — or even before Rodrigo R. Duterte took his oath as president a fortnight ago on June 30 — has yielded ever bigger numbers of casualties, arrests, and...
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Lascañas pens tell-all journal: Duterte rule ‘a Divine Trap’
HE HAD repeatedly denied the existence of the so-called Davao Death Squad or DDS at a Senate hearing just four months ago. Yet last week, retired Senior Police Officer 3 Arturo Bariquit Lascañas...
View ArticleSlow & quick action, open & opaque agencies
SUPER QUICK or interminably slow action, a few or all documents, and clear or vague policies and lines of authority — a mix of good and bad practices marked the conduct of state agencies and personnel...
View Article183 denied, 166 granted, 154 pending
MORE THAN three months after the Freedom of Information (FOI) Executive Order took effect on Nov. 25, 2016, requests for data from state agencies have been coming in, but not at the volume expected by...
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Affidavits of 4 CHR witnesses affirm Lascañas details on DDS
EIGHT YEARS before retired SPO3 Arturo Lascañas admitted to participating in killings done by the Davao Death Squad (DDS), supposedly on the orders of then Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte, four...
View ArticleArturo Lascañas, for the record
HE LOOKED calm and collected even as he lay one serious allegation after another against the highest official of the land, and even after saying that he expected to be killed because of all that he has...
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A PCIJ tribute to Filipino workers
PCIJ’s MoneyPolitics Online MORE THAN a century ago, Filipino workers marched down what is now known as Claro M. Recto Street in Manila to assert and claim their rights. The Congreso Obrero de...
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The PH parties to Duterte’s China deals
By Kenneth Cardenas* Fellow, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— AVLB Asia Pacific Conglomerate, Inc. AVLB Asia Pacific is...
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Manila, Beijing dating again: ‘Who is the screwer, screwed?’
Last of Two Parts THEY CALL it “Dutertenomics.” Its tagline: “Build, build, build.” Its boast: “The golden age of Philippine infrastructure.” Its estimated bill: PhP8.4 trillion, to be sourced from...
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