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Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr, the son of the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., is currently leading the Philippine presidential polls ahead of a historic election this May 9 against leading opposition bet Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo. Here's what it means for the US-Philippine relations:
With over four million enrollees from 2016 to 2021, the Department of Education (DepEd) said that the Alternative Learning System (ALS) has become a very important program under the current administration. (Photo from DepEd) “We are happy that the enrollment rate of the Alternative Learning sy
SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION. A construction site of the Metro Manila Subway on Mindanao Avenue, Quezon City taken on August 18, 2021. The PHP17.75 billion contract package 104 of the first phase of the Metro Manila Subway was officially awarded to the Tokyu-Tobishima Megawide Joint Venture (TTM-JV) during a signing ceremony on Thursday (May 5, 2022). (PNA photo by Rico H. Borja) MANILA - Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade Thursday signed a contract worth PHP17.75 billion as part of the first phase of the Metro Manila Subway. The contract package, dubbed CP104 and that was awar...
By: Atty. Perry Solis Press freedom is alive and well in the Philippines despite the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) release of its annual World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) putting the country in an unenviable position of no. 147 under what it called a new methodology, down from 138 last year. According to RSF's website, the low ranking of the country was due to many factors, foremost of which is media killings, especially the Ampatuan Massacre that happened more than a decade ago in 2009. As presented by RSF, it would be easy to assume that countries with a higher ranking would have a &quo...
(PNA file photo) MANILA-Despite the new methodology used in this year's World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released on May 4, 2022, the Philippine press remains freer and "extremely vibrant" under President Rodrigo Roa Duterte compared to the previous administrations of former Presidents Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino Jr. and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. "Even with the new method used by the Paris-based RSF in determining each nation's rankings in the 2022 World Press Freedom Index, the present administration still fared way better tha...