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After years of muddling through the Philippines’ “justice” system, some progress in the crackdown on pork barrel politics has finally been made. Janet Lim Napoles now reportedly faces “jail time of 12 to 18 years for each count of malversation” after the Sandiganbayan ruled “Napoles, [former Cagayan de Oro representative Constantino Jaraula], and three others…
It’s not often that I take interest in business news. But someone drew my attention to the fracas involving retail giant SM’s investment arm, which has the potential to blow up into something more. The great Amir Al Bahr wrote a while back about how China Bank’s DOSRI loans problems were sort of shrugged off…
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According to ABS-CBN News “correspondent” Chiara Zambrano, Philippine universities are “fighting back”. In a “joint statement”, the administrations of the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), the University of Santo Tomas (UST), and Far Eastern University (FEU) asserted that their respective institutions “neither promote nor condone recruitment activities of the New…
Aren’t all Filipinos subject to laws regarding obstruction of police investigations? This means any “accord” that gives special treatment to officials of the University of the Philippines (UP) by giving them power to deny police access to their jurisdiction is unlawful by nature. Philippine law is quite clear about what constitutes obstruction of justice. Presidential…
What makes students of the University of the Philippines so special that they get to study in an exclusive sanctuary against state security forces that no other student bodies in the Philippines enjoy? The fact is, all Filipino students and all jurisdictions that are subject to Philippine law already protected by the Bill of Rights…
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Do the communists speak for the majority of members of the University of the Philippines (UP) student body? Do they represent the voice of the average Filipino student who only wants to pursue her studies in peace and in safety? This is the question Filipinos need to ask seeing that rhetoric that aims to create…
Finally the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be able to do its job rooting out the scourge of communist terrorism at one of its key sources of recruitment — the University of the Philippines (UP). This development was shared in a tweet issued by the campus newspaper of the UP, the Philippine Collegian…
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Only fair, right? The basis of Twitter recently shutting down the account of United States president Donald Trump is “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” that it presumably exposes the American public to. Twitter references its policy on the nature of such behaviour and the actions it holds prerogative to take on…