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Marichu A. Villanueva
Marichu A. Villanueva
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Feeling the people’s pain
by Marichu A. Villanueva - May 19, 2025 - 12:00am
The just concluded national and local elections are said to be the referendum for the incumbent administration half-way through its six-year term of office.
Random manual recount of votes
by Marichu A. Villanueva - May 16, 2025 - 12:00am
“May mga malikot ang isip, many are likely to speculate that there’s cheating going on,” the NAMFREL chief rued.
Comelec’s K.K.K. battlecry
by Marichu A. Villanueva - May 14, 2025 - 12:00am
Since the 1987 Constitution got ratified, we hold elections in the Philippines every three years.
For the Motherland
by Marichu A. Villanueva - May 12, 2025 - 12:00am
The weather is forecast to be warm and humid as 68.4 million Filipino voters troop today to polling precincts all over the country. 
Cyberwar vs online election threats
by Marichu A. Villanueva - May 9, 2025 - 12:00am
This new breed of election threats comes from the so-called “dark web” in the cyberworld.
Apples and oranges, or lemons?
by Marichu A. Villanueva - May 7, 2025 - 12:00am
Don’t compare apples and oranges.
It’s now her turn
by Marichu A. Villanueva - May 5, 2025 - 12:00am
For the past several months, Vice President Sara Duterte went through bitterly fought congressional hearings on her alleged misuse of public funds.
Vote for the Philippines
by Marichu A. Villanueva - May 2, 2025 - 12:00am
 “What I’m doing is not just for election purposes. I have called China out since 2022,” Tolentino rebutted.  
PCO house cleaning stirs up dust
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 30, 2025 - 12:00am
The Presidential Communications Office house cleaning initiatives stirred a hornet’s nest among present members of media called the Malacañang Press Corps.
Hullabaloo over P20 per kilo rice
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 28, 2025 - 12:00am
Taking place in the last stretch of the election campaign period, a plan to sell rice at P20 per kilo in the markets went a-boiling.
As election issues
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 25, 2025 - 12:00am
But where is the confidence of VP Sara coming from that she could possibly get off unscathed from the impeachment case?
Foreign poll observers for what?
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 23, 2025 - 12:00am
In three weeks, we shall be having our national and local elections on May 12.
Prayer for travel travails
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 21, 2025 - 12:00am
For our largely Catholic country, the long weekend that ended our Lenten observance has always been associated with the holiday travel rush.
Tariff war rages on TikTok
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 16, 2025 - 12:00am
Browsing online for the latest news here and abroad usually starts my day as I prepare for the daily grind of work at the editorial desk.
‘Teacher Jun’
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 14, 2025 - 12:00am
As part of the education cum information campaign of the government, a hardbound comic book was launched last February at the National Library.
Fixing weaknesses in the laws
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 11, 2025 - 12:00am
Unfortunately, such substandard quality of steel bars is also existing everywhere in the Philippines.
Fast and furious innovations
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 9, 2025 - 12:00am
We just got back from a literally whirlwind trip to Japan over the weekend.
The ‘Trump card’
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 7, 2025 - 12:00am
Unfortunately, the sentiments of our OFWs are being mis-labelled as “pro-Duterte” protest rallies.
Bully pulpits vs fake news
by Marichu A. Villanueva - April 2, 2025 - 12:00am
With the proliferation and the speed by which “fake news” spreads, we could only thank its purveyors and peddlers in social media for driving the people back to mainstream media.
On April Fools’ Day
by Marichu A. Villanueva - March 31, 2025 - 12:00am
The timing could be off, or just coincidental. The Supreme Court originally set tomorrow the oral arguments on the petitions against the alleged illegal “insertions” in the 2025 budget law.
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