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What Worked and What Didn’t Work in the Aquino Administration (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from “What Worked and What Didn’t Work in the Aquino Administration Part 1 “ What did not work in the Aquino Administration Criminality and security The Aquino administration was marred by...
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How Far Will Duterte’s Administration Go in the Crackdown on Drugs?
“Yung mga kasama ko noon, humihitit ng shabu bago bumiyahe,” said Rodel (not his real name), a driver of a popular personal driving service app. He has opened up the topic to me, his passenger, and it...
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On Duterte: shocked but not awed
Today everybody love Rodrigo Duterte when only yesterday they lined up to have the honor of cutting off his tongue and throwing it down the sewers where, they said, it belongs. And so the rush to...
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Federalism: Is this the biggest change to happen under Duterte’s Watch?
“Change is coming.” This is the slogan of President-elect Rodrigo Roa Duterte. In the recently concluded 2016 Philippine Presidential Elections, Filipinos, along with the rest of the world, witnessed...
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The President and social media
The news media came out with a pooled editorial where Blog Watch is also a signatory and wished “the incoming administration success in all its endeavors. As journalists and as citizens, we commit not...
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12 nuggets of wisdom from President Duterte’s speech (Part 1 of 2)
The Davao Eagle has just landed in Malacañang. It seems surreal but it’s true. The newly-installed President of the Republic of the Philippines, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, has just been enthroned in his new...
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12 nuggets of wisdom from President Duterte’s speech (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part 1: Twelve (12) nuggets of wisdom from President Duterte’s speech “But the change, if it is to be permanent and significant, must start with us and in us.” I have written this right...
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Beating illegal drugs through education in the Duterte presidency
According to President Rodrigo Duterte, we are at the brink of becoming a narco-political state. This was his warning to the country as soon as he was sworn in to the top position of the country. He...
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Duterte reveals that the war on drugs is bigger and badder than we thought
And we thought we knew how big our drug problem was. READ: Beating illegal drugs through education in the Duterte presidency In a press conference held yesterday in Malacanang Palace, President Rodrigo...
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The West Philippine Sea Dispute: Is it really over or just the beginning?
It is a mum victory for the Philippines. Yesterday, at 5PM PST, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, Netherlands has awarded to the Philippines its claims on the contested islands in the...
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