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SOS to the FATF
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 23, 2026 - 12:00am
Calling the Financial Action Task Force... please look into one of the biggest sources of money laundering in this country: election campaign finance.
The amici curiae
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 21, 2026 - 12:00am
After that awesome display of erudition by retired Supreme Court justices last Wednesday, no one seems to dare make a fearless forecast on how senators will vote on the issues for which the justices were invited...
Institutionalizing dynasties
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 18, 2026 - 12:00am
On the same day that the Supreme Court issued a rare directive to Congress, telling its co-equal branch to pass an anti-dynasty law as mandated 39 years ago by the Constitution, lawmakers rushed the passage of a...
Red flags in the BARMM vote
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 16, 2026 - 12:00am
In Maluso, Basilan, over 16,000 ballots – about half of the entire voting population in the town – were found to have been pre-shaded.
Medical gobbledygook
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Now, that wasn’t so hard, was it?
Who’s the looter?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 11, 2026 - 12:00am
On the eve of the birth anniversary of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the nation learned that his widow Imelda had been acquitted by the Supreme Court on the seven counts of graft for which she was convicted by a lower court...
VIP refuge
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 9, 2026 - 12:00am
What amazing serendipity.
Out on bail
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 7, 2026 - 12:00am
Just for the optics, some folks thought Vice President Sara Duterte would have allowed herself to be arrested and detained over the weekend, waiting for Monday to post bail for the grave threats case.
Don’t get mad, get even
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 4, 2026 - 12:00am
Someone I know nearly got trapped last Monday when massive flooding turned the North Luzon Expressway into a giant parking lot.
Dangerous ‘resilience’
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 2, 2026 - 12:00am
Call it divine intervention.
Water detention
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 31, 2026 - 12:00am
Despite the nearly P2 trillion in our hard-earned taxes spent on flood control projects over the past 15 years, Metro Manila and neighboring provinces were again inundated over the weekend by torrential monsoon...
Porn for minors
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 28, 2026 - 12:00am
Have you checked out what your young child has been watching lately on Facebook?
Filipino ube
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 26, 2026 - 12:00am
There are so few sources of good news these days. One of them is Alex Eala. Another is ube.
The tides of wrath
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 24, 2026 - 12:00am
With floods stubbornly refusing to recede in several areas, and patchwork flood control structures destroyed by floods, local officials have taken to blaming high tide, soil erosion and extreme rainfall.
Armed and dangerous
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 21, 2026 - 12:00am
In a tragic reminder that the nation is awash with guns, the head of the Enforcement and Security Services of the Bureau of Customs district office in Zamboanga left his two guns – one a service firearm –...
Trillions down the drain
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 19, 2026 - 12:00am
With the continuing heavy monsoon rains and flooding, there are people who worry about where to get the money to patch up roofs that are leaking and repair floors and furniture that have been damaged.
Sea of garbage
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 17, 2026 - 12:00am
We keep landing in the news for all the wrong reasons.
Business as usual?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 14, 2026 - 12:00am
A newly rehabilitated portion of EDSA developed potholes after just a few days of intermittent heavy downpour.
Destroying a lake
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 12, 2026 - 12:00am
Pre-COVID, I used to enjoy the scenic drive through Circumferential Road 6. From Lower Bicutan in Taguig to the talipapa at the border of Pasig and Taytay, Rizal, there were good views of Laguna de Bay.
Another OPM?
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 10, 2026 - 12:00am
Gross domestic product growth continues to decelerate, slowing to just 2.3 percent year-on-year, the lowest outside the pandemic years since 2009.
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