Carmela Fonbuena
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2022 aspirants run ads worth P3.7-B before filing candidacies
Alan Peter Cayetano, who initially aspired for the presidency, was the top ad spender from January to September 2021, but this was overshadowed by the combined ads of Senate aspirant Mark Villar and members of his family. → Read More
2022 aspirants run ads worth P3.7 billion on traditional media before filing candidacies
Alan Peter Cayetano, who initially aspired for the presidency, was the top ad spender from January to September 2021. But this was overshadowed by the combined ads of Senate aspirant Mark Villar and members of his family. → Read More
Ombudsman’s draft bill to amend SALN law raises more red flags
The PCIJ obtained a copy of the Ombudsman’s proposals to amend the law requiring public officials to disclose their wealth. → Read More
Ombudsman’s draft bill to amend SALN law raises more red flags
Transparency advocates express their biggest opposition to the Ombudsman’s proposal to seek jail time for anyone who makes commentaries on the SALN. It was tantamount to censorship, they say. → Read More
The generals’ pork? Duterte eyes P16.4-B fund for anti-communist task force
If approved, the fund is seen to set the stage for a bigger war with the Left a year before the 2022 elections → Read More
Año: LGUs may declare ECQs in towns, barangays with reg'l task force approval
Without RIATF concurrence, the LGU declaration is invalid. 'National IATF may supercede anytime should circumstances call for it,' Año says → Read More
How poor is PH health system? Many hospitals not qualified to test for coronavirus
The national government didn’t immediately see the need to accredit qualified laboratories to test COVID-19 samples right after the first case was reported. There was failure to think ahead. → Read More
Life doubly harder in Marawi shelters as coronavirus grounds aid groups
Marawi residents find it hard to follow precautions against the novel coronavirus disease when relief goods are limited and water trucks are reducing trips. Local authorities say they do not have enough resources to feed the people for an extended period. They need outside help. → Read More
Hope for VFA? 'Door is not totally shut,' says PH envoy to US
'We cannot ignore a country like the US,' says Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez → Read More
Is your Marawi property gone? Check this aerial video
Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra says many residents have given consent to demolish their homes → Read More
Former commander honors Marawi siege dead
In solemn commemoration, former Marawi commander Carlito Galvez Jr runs his fingers over the names of soldiers killed in a siege → Read More
Duterte at midterm gets high grades for keeping Mindanao promise
Thanks to President Rodrigo Duterte, the new Bangsamoro region is in place and the Mindanao promise is on track. His challenge in the next 3 years is to make sure that BARMM delivers on its promises. → Read More
At least 3 soldiers killed, 8 wounded in Sulu attack
The explosion happens on the first day of the assumption of the new chief of the Western Mindanao Command → Read More
Battle-scarred Philippine general leads military command fighting terrorists
Major General Cirilito Sobejana assumes command of the military's Western Mindanao Command on Friday, June 28 → Read More
Soldiers seethe online after Erwin Tulfo threatens to slap ex-Army chief
Thousands sign a Change.org petition demanding the broadcaster to apologize to DSWD Secretary Rolando Bautista, whom Erwin Tulfo had lambasted in his radio show for declining a live interview → Read More
Frustrated Marawi evacuees still can’t go home 2 years after siege
It is two years ago since the siege that killed more than a thousand. At least 50,000 remain displaced, and the once-bustling center of trade and commerce is still buried in rubble. → Read More
Marcoses take seats in Senate, Congress, province and city
The icing on the cake for the Marcos family is Michael Marcos Keon's hairline victory over Chevylle Fariñas in the race for Laoag City mayor → Read More
Pulse Asia on voter interest: 'Mindanao is hot'
A survey of Pulse Asia shows 91% of likely voters in Mindanao are ‘truly interested’ in the 2019 elections → Read More
Maria Ressa joins 'Time 100' most influential people of 2019
Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright writes the tribute for Maria Ressa in this year's list → Read More
2 foreign fighters believed to be among 20 killed in Maguindanao clashes
The military is retrieving body parts to identify all of the fatalities in clashes between troops and suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters → Read More