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MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Saturday backed the request of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to suspend the rearrest of convicts who were freed under the controversial Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Remembering how the Philippines attained its freedom from its foreign colonizers is a historical narrative of love, sacrifice and even, betrayal. Indeed, our ancestors fought hard for the freedom that we now enjoy. Sadly, in…
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — 121 years have passed since the declaration of the Philippine independence, but many continue to strive for freedom against social problems like poverty, illegal drugs and road congestion. “While our ancestors fought for…
CEBU CITY, Philippines –British Ambassador Daniel Pruce has shared his government’s campaign to promote freedom of the press. “This campaign is not anti-government: It is not anti-business. It is not anti any single individual or political party,” …
Cebu City, Philippines – Pering Abasa is one of the many flower vendors at the Freedom Park along Magallanes Street in Cebu City. For the past 25 years, she, along with many other flower vendors in the…
Consider Duterte and Trump. They are purveyors of authoritarianism. And yet, they have achieved and will achieve very little that is of any historical significance in their terms. The world has changed in a way we are…
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines ranked 73rd out of 162 countries in the Human Freedom Index (HFI), a study by Canada’s Fraser Institute, Germany’s Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, and the Cato Institute in the United States…
We need in the national legislature senators and congressmen who would defend press freedom. Lest the public forget, their participation in our democratic experiment is enabled by an unfettered mass media. Unfortunately, the press in the Philippines…
The new set officers of the Cebu Federation of Beat Journalists (CFBJ) took their oath during their general assembly on Wednesday (September 19). Mitchelle Palaubsanon took over Elias Baquero as president of the federation. Baquero served as…
Objectivity to the truth and religious adherence to the ethical standards of journalism are the keys to bringing the essential and truthful information to the public. So was the answer that has brought Cebu Daily News its…
To feel safe and secure in one’s home, community and wherever one might be is a universal want, irrespective of race, gender or class. Our Constitution’s Preamble is unequivocal in declaring the reason for its being: “to…
It is well that we celebrated yesterday the 120th year of Philippine independence without excessive optimism or dogmatism about the concept. While we accept that our nation-statehood began in 1898, the notion of our independence should be…
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