After a group of civic leaders filed a petition asking for the cancellation of presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s certificate of candidacy (COC), a Facebook post claimed the conviction cited in the petition had already been decided upon by the Supreme Court. As of writing, the post, made on November 2 by the group Bongbong Marcos Supporters Nation 2022, has amassed 921 reactions and 415 shares.

Ang wika ang daan upang lubos nating makilala ang ating kultura bilang mga mamamayan at bilang isang lipunan. Samakatuwid, mapapansing magkaugnay ang dalawang ito sa isa’t-isa; sa pangyayaring mamatay ang wika, kasamang maglalaho ang kalakip nitong kultura.

On October 24, a Facebook post was uploaded by blogger William C. Ubagan that accused presidential aspirant and incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo of vote-buying. The post has currently garnered 18 reacts and 24 comments and 54 shares.

The camp of presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Saturday wrongly claimed he has always been honest about his special diploma from the University of Oxford. 

Despite recent complaints of exhaustion over the demands of his job and repeated threats of resignation in the past 3 years, President Rodrigo Duterte in a taped address aired last Tuesday  confirmed he would run for vice president in the 2022 National Elections.

Even as the Philippines suffers one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in Southeast Asia, skepticism over vaccine safety and efficacy lingers among some Filipinos.

The pre-colonial times are almost a blur now in the modern-day Philippines. There are many facts in our history textbooks that have been trivialized and sanitized, and among those is the gender-fluid history of the Philippines.

On the eve of May 31, Police Master Sergeant Hensie Zinampan shot and killed 52-year-old Lilybeth Valdez in Fairview, Quezon City. In a viral video taken by Valdez’s grandson, Zinampan was seen confronting Valdez and pulling her by the hair before shooting her point-blank in cold blood.

In the early hours of May 2, activist and Atenean student leader Sasah Sta. Rosa was arrested in her home in Naga City. As the chairperson of progressive youth group Anakbayan Naga City and the spokesperson of its regional formation Jovenes Anakbayan, Sta. Rosa is a staunch critic of the current administration. She is also the former department head of the Ateneo de Naga University-Supreme Student Government’s Department of People’s Rights and Welfare.

Behind many of the decisions resulting in the worsening pandemic situation is Health Secretary Francisco Duque III. Duque has undoubtedly proven himself incompetent, criminally negligent, and lacking foresight in handling the health crisis.