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On Bulacan Int'l Aiport, Duterte Finance Secretary's personal interests...
Massive congestion in NAIA during the August 2018 Xiamen Air Incident, where a plane skidded off the runway, causing the cancellations of numerous flights as NAIA effectively lone runway is...
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RIGHT OF REPLY: DoTr's response to TP article on Bulacan Airport
In the spirit of fairness and because ThinkingPinoy acknowledges everyone's Right of Reply, reproduced verbatim et in toto below is the Department of Transportation's response to the 05 June 2019...
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Several pleasant surprises that kinda restored my Faith in Humanity
Here's a rare feel-good ThinkingPinoyarticle. 😂😂😂I attended the 20th Anniversary of Children's Joy Foundation, Inc. (CJFI), a shelter for children whose parents, in one way or another, cannot take care...
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After Statement on Bikoy: Caloocan Bishop David either a hypocrite or a liar?
Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David's statement denying complicity in the now-discredited Bikoy Videos show glaring inconsistencies, suggesting that the bishop is either a hypocrite or a liar... or is...
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ex-DFA Sec. del Rosario, China, the Fishermen, the Incident and Reed Bank's Oil
If I were in Albert del Rosario's shoes...It’s public knowledge that President Duterte himself admitted that it’ll be difficult to exploit oil and gas resources in the South China Sea because of...
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Speaker Cayetano's "Dolphy Situation": a super typhoon's brewing in the House?
The entire thing started with the bloody speakership race involving Marinduque’s Lord Allan Velasco, Leyte’s Martin Romualdez, and Taguig’s Alan Peter Cayetano. For two straight months, media bombarded...
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#TPonMB: What, exactly, is a ‘legitimate journalist’?
As I write my first column piece, I think it’s best to introduce myself first.[NOTE: This piece was first published in the Manila Bulletin on 03 August 2019].My name is Rey Joseph Nieto, best known as...
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#TPonMB: Health Sec. Duque, let’s respect FDA’s independence
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque recently announced that he’ll consult with the UP-PGH Dengvaxia Task Force regarding the possible reintroduction of the controversial anti-dengue...
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#TPonMB: Policy suggestions to prevent the recruitment of Filipino youth into...
Several parents of senior high school students testified in a series of Senate hearings that leftist groups believed to fronts for the communist insurgent New People’s Army (NPA) are recruiting their...
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#TPonMB: Duterte Youth’s Cardema vs Comelec’s Guanzon
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been witness to the word war between former National Youth Commission and Duterte Youth party-list nominee Ronald Cardema and Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon,...
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#TPonMB: Personal advocacies and the ABCD of politics
The relative political calm in the months after the May, 2019, elections has come to an end: sentence reductions for convicted felons, the SOGIE bill, South China Sea tensions, Death Penalty’s revival,...
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#TPonMB: Perception in politics is as important as Reality
Politics is a game of Perception where what’s really taking place may be different from what the public thinks is happening, and anyone who enters the political arena should know this by heart. A...
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EXTRA P1.6-B HOUSE BUDGET: CAYETANO’S NEGATIVE PREGNANT DEFENSE VS "FAKE NEWS"
Let's thoroughly dissect the House budget issue and Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano's excruciatingly problematic defense. Nililihis ang istorya e. Akala siguro e makalulusot.On 20 Sept 2019, House Accounts...
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I SAW "SPEAKER NA TAPAT" CAYETANO'S 2020 HOUSE BUDGET. HMM, MAY TERM SHARING...
Sabi ni Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano sa profile pic niya noong Marso, siya ay magiging isang "Speaker na Tapat".Well, tingnan nga natin ang proposed 2020 budget niya.Note: Sinulat ko 'to in...
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#2019SEAGames: Fact-checking Marlon Ramos' Inquirer exposé vs BCDA
Inquirer reporter Marlon Ramos, on the 02 December 2019 article “Deal to construct P13-B gov’t complex, sports hub at New Clark City questioned”, said that based on “documents,” Bases Conversion and...
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ABS-CBN’s Franchise Renewal: Will Lopezes make ultimate sacrifice to save...
Most of us are already familiar and have a working understanding of the ABS-CBN franchise renewal issue, but to give you a refresher, here’s the basic issue.Every free-to-air TV or radio station is...
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UP Naming Binarat? UP gets only ₱22/sqm monthly from UP-Ayala Technohub
The University of the Philippines System’s 2018 Commission on Audit Report [1] states that UP has two Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects with Ayala Land: the UP-Ayala Technohub along...
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Rufino-Prieto firms cannibalizing the financially ailing Philippine Daily...
Documents show Philippine Daily Inquirer’s majority owners, the Rufino-Prieto Clan, are using their other family-owned companies to cannibalize what little is left of the newspaper company’s assets, at...
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In the service of the Filipino? How ABS-CBN's Lopezes used mass media since...
Davao businessman Dennis Uy recently asked President Rodrigo Duterte for a sovereign guarantee[1] to cover a Php 700 million loan for Uy’s Chelsea Logistics[2]. Eyebrows rose, of course, including...
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#DrilonOnCNN: A case for firing “fact-checker” Vera Files
Vera Files' latest fact-checking stunt on the issue of Senator Franklin Drilon's CNN interview should be a ground for its expulsion from its "fact-checker"-ship.Vera Files is among Facebook’s...
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