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WORLDHONG KONG – A Hong Kong court sentenced two pro-democracy activists to seven years in prison on Friday, September 11, after they were convicted for inciting subversion, with judges highlighting their use of the phrase “end one-party dictatorship” in their political activities. Lee Cheuk-yan, 69,…
The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte — the first Philippine public official to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives — began at 2 pm on Monday, July 6. There are four articles of impeachment against Duterte involving alleged misuse of confidential funds, unexplained…
WORLDAnthropic on Thursday, September 10, said it had disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its Claude models over the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign and efforts by Chinese AI firms it accused of trying to extract and replicate Claude’s…
WORLDMANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Audit (COA) has found that thousands of Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) beneficiaries in 2025 either received cash assistance despite submitting incomplete documents or got…
WORLDDear Class, Reminder: Please strive to be honest. Honesty is the true test of a journalist. In online assessments where I cannot check if you are cheating or not, another type of assessment is at work. It is an assessment of character , a test that only you can grade. I hope you excel. If you pass…
MANILA, Philippines – Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 98 has deferred the arraignment of Vice President Sara Duterte for her grave threats case originally scheduled on Friday, September 11. Duterte’s lawyer, Paul Lawrence Lim, said they filed a motion with the court that prompted the…
WORLDClaim: Members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) blocked 39 soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and confiscated their firearms in Lanao del Sur on September 9. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A September 9 Facebook post published by the page “Kakatoh Trending”…
WORLDWASHINGTON, USA – When Donald Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, he promised to be a “president of peace” who would stop foreign wars, not start them. Now, a quarter-century after the September 11, 2001, attacks that triggered America’s global “war on terror,” he is entangled in…
WORLDFrom the latest company re-rating adjustment upgrades for Megawide Construction Corporation (trading symbol: MWIDE), the most aggressive was from First Metro Securities Brokerage Corporation (FirstMetroSec). It assigned a bold year-end “Take-Profit” (TP) target of P7.50 per share equivalent to a…
WORLDWhy the grave threats charges were only belatedly filed is another matter altogether, but Vice President Sara Duterte and her staff were fully prepared for them. Part of the preparation, self-evidently, was a narrative strategy. According to Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla , Duterte’s…