Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 21:16:14 +0000
The Duterte administration should spare all kinds of medicines from the 12-percent value-added tax (VAT) to help poor Filipinos in their medical needs, Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos on Tuesday said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:26:22 +0000
On Sept. 20, 2018, martial law victims unexpectedly found a new reason to air longtime grievances after a video appeared online showing former Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile being interviewed by the son and namesake of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 21:28:08 +0000
Inside a small theater tucked in a quiet alley in Quezon City, an audience composed mostly of millennials meets Hector, a man who makes a living spreading memes and other online clickbaits in a bid to twist or sugarcoat the martial law narrative of the Marcos regime, whose “survivors” ironically included his own mother, a victim of human rights abuses.
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The widow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos walked out of the Sandiganbayan on Friday ready to fight what could be another lengthy legal battle to overturn her graft conviction at the end of a 27-year trial after the antigraft court allowed her to post a P150,000 bail amid charges she was being given special treatment.
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Students. Labor leaders. Farmers. Members of the clergy. Teachers. Most of them were young activists in their teens, others in their 40s or 50s.
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Work on unifying the nation instead of “glorifying a dictator,” Vice President Leni Robredo on Friday said in a message to President Rodrigo Duterte, reacting to his remarks that the country was better off with a dictator “like (Ferdinand) Marcos” than with her at the helm.
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