Teka Teka

The NTF-ELCAC has been unable to give a satisfactory accounting of how it spent its money in 2021. Now it faces a huge budget cut from the Senate, and might even be abolished altogether. What can America's many wars teach us about the true cost of conflict?

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For months, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte kept denying she was considering running for a national post in the 2022 election. At the 11th hour, she changed her mind to heed the “relentless call” from her supporters. But did she ever really change her mind, or was this part of the plan all along?

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20 months after the first lockdown, cinemas have finally reopened. Do you still remember what it's like to sit in a big, dark, cold room with strangers? Is it safe to go back in now?

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The Philippines has suffered 10 consecutive weeks of oil price hikes. It's become such a heated topic that the presidential candidates have jumped into the fray. Their populist rhetoric of suspending fuel excise taxes--is that really the answer? 

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Anti-covid pill manufacturer, Merck, and the Medicines Patent Pool have entered a licencing agreement to offer international access for molnupiravir. What does this mean for low to middle income countries? And, can anti-covid pills be used to replace vaccines? Dr. DJ Bandoy explains in this episode.

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Dennis Uy now owns 90% of the Malampaya gas field. Why did the government allow his company, which has no experience in exploration, to take over? And why, if the reserves are depleting soon, is he willing to go deep in debt to buy it?

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For years, the Ampatuans had gotten away with all kinds of atrocities. Not just land-grabbing and corruption, but even abductions, torture, sexual assault, bombings, and murder by chainsaw. But their crime on November 23, 2009 was just too gruesome to be covered up. Now they had to deal with something they weren't used to—being held accountable.

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There's more than one Cynthia in the tragic and infuriating tale of the Maguindanao massacre. And the other Cynthia was there from the time the crime was planned to the time the perpetrators were trying to cover it up.

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When armed men stopped the convoy of journalists and members of the Mangudadatu clan, they stripped their captives of their belongings. But lawyer Cynthia Oquendo-Ayon managed to hold on to her phone. It would be her lifeline—or so she thought.

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“Isn't this enough telephone wires?” was one of the things Trese art director Jojo Aguilar was asked by his non-Filipino colleagues while they were working on the Netflix adaptation. His response: the more telephone wires, the more authentic! Here's how a global production team brought Manila's cityscape to life for the world to see.

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