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  • Banner collage photo of voting in the Philippine election Lisa Marie David REUTERS photo and a stock image of a Philippine election ballot

    A better way is possible: How to make voting in Philippine elections more accessible and stress-free to voters

    With voting for the 2025 mid-term elections is done and dusted, Filipinos anticipate to see the winning candidates for every race. Before initial results
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  • Banner collage photo of stock image of Philippine voting Halalan and campaign posters along a street in Manila.

    Where did we go wrong with the party-list system?

    After the fall of the Marcos Sr. dictatorship, efforts were made to prevent the Philippines from sliding back into plutocratic or oligarchic rule once
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    The Philippines 
  • Banner collage photo of protesters at a candlelight vigil for victims of extrajudicial killings and former president Rodrigo Duterte.

    Rodrigo Duterte was afforded something his victims were not — due process

    What transpired on 11 March 2025 was something few thought possible. Former president Rodrigo Duterte was finally arrested by the Interpol on charges of
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    Investigate Duterte The Philippines 
  • Banner collage photo of the International Criminal Court in The Hague Netherlands and a photo of former president Rodrigo Duterte

    Why Rodrigo Duterte needs to face justice

    Since lawyer Jude Sabio filed a complaint against then-Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for alleged crimes against humanity in 2017, the International Criminal Court (ICC)
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    Investigate Duterte The Philippines 
  • Banner collage photo of a POGO in Las Piñas City and CCTV footage of Chinese national killing another Chinese in Makati City.

    We must fumigate what’s left of POGO cockroaches in the Philippines

    The kidnapping of a Chinese teenager last week in Taguig City added to a long list of recent crimes targeting foreigners in the Philippines.
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Banner collage photo of voting in the Philippine election Lisa Marie David REUTERS photo and a stock image of a Philippine election ballot

A better way is possible: How to make voting in Philippine elections more accessible and stress-free to voters

May 13, 2025 Louie Encabo 0
Banner collage photo of stock image of Philippine voting Halalan and campaign posters along a street in Manila.

Where did we go wrong with the party-list system?

April 8, 2025 Louie Encabo Comments Off on Where did we go wrong with the party-list system?
Banner collage photo of protesters at a candlelight vigil for victims of extrajudicial killings and former president Rodrigo Duterte.

Rodrigo Duterte was afforded something his victims were not — due process

March 15, 2025 Louie Encabo Comments Off on Rodrigo Duterte was afforded something his victims were not — due process

Investigate DuterteView All

Banner collage photo of protesters at a candlelight vigil for victims of extrajudicial killings and former president Rodrigo Duterte.
Investigate Duterte The Philippines 

Rodrigo Duterte was afforded something his victims were not — due process

March 15, 2025 Louie Encabo Comments Off on Rodrigo Duterte was afforded something his victims were not — due process
Banner collage photo of the International Criminal Court in The Hague Netherlands and a photo of former president Rodrigo Duterte
Investigate Duterte The Philippines 

Why Rodrigo Duterte needs to face justice

March 10, 2025 Louie Encabo Comments Off on Why Rodrigo Duterte needs to face justice
Banner collage photo Inday Sara Duterte and Rodrigo Duterte and a stock image of the Philippine Army headquarters.
Investigate Duterte The Philippines 

The Duterte crime family and their supporters must be arrested for inciting to sedition

November 27, 2024 Louie Encabo Comments Off on The Duterte crime family and their supporters must be arrested for inciting to sedition
Banner collage photo of Department of Justice Philippines building and former president Rodrigo Duterte at the QuadComm hearing.
Investigate Duterte The Philippines 

Enough with the Congressional hearings, it’s time to bring Rodrigo Duterte to the Dept of Justice

November 16, 2024 Louie Encabo Comments Off on Enough with the Congressional hearings, it’s time to bring Rodrigo Duterte to the Dept of Justice

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Banner collage photo of Shane Jones and Kermadec Islands New Zealand

The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary meant relinquishing our own marine resources, now the Government has scrapped it

March 28, 2024 Eric Lomas Comments Off on The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary meant relinquishing our own marine resources, now the Government has scrapped it
John Tamihere Māori Television Whakaata Māori Te Pāti Māori Shane Taurima Winston Peters Royal Commission of Inquiry into Media Bias

Māori Television controversy proves Winston Peters is right about media bias

December 9, 2023 Eric Lomas Comments Off on Māori Television controversy proves Winston Peters is right about media bias
New Zealand Election 2023 post-mortem collage photo stock photo ballot box and The Beehive with NZ flag and Tino Rangatiratanga flag in the foreground.

Election 2023: A referendum on co-governance and law and order

October 19, 2023 Louie Encabo Comments Off on Election 2023: A referendum on co-governance and law and order

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The key points from Al Jazeera’s documentary on Chinese spy She Zhijiang and CCP espionage in Southeast Asia

The key points from Al Jazeera’s documentary on Chinese spy She Zhijiang and CCP espionage in Southeast Asia

September 30, 2024 Louie Encabo Comments Off on The key points from Al Jazeera’s documentary on Chinese spy She Zhijiang and CCP espionage in Southeast Asia
Banner photo collage of Karapatan Philippines protest against aerial bombings and Lumad bakwit evacuees.

International Humanitarian Law: Why even wars have rules

May 19, 2024 Louie Encabo Comments Off on International Humanitarian Law: Why even wars have rules
Labour union movement International Workers Day workers rights

Today, we thank the unions

May 1, 2023 Louie Encabo 1
Rodrigo Duterte government killings NDFP peace consultants killings in the Philippines
The Philippines 
May 31, 2021May 31, 2021

What does it say about a government that kills peace consultants?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1011 Views extrajudicial killings, featured, national democratic front of the philippines, red tagging, Reynaldo Bocala, rodrigo duterte, Rustico Luna Tan

For thousands of years, diplomats and emissaries have been given special status that ensures them immunity from prosecution and a safe passage. The concept

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Gilbert Teodoro 2022 elections
The Philippines 
May 25, 2021May 25, 2021

Election 2022: Will we see the return of Gibo Teodoro?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1172 Views 1Sambayanan, 2022 philippine presidential elections, featured, gilbert teodoro, gloria macapagal-arroyo, Lakas-Kampi CMD, rodrigo duterte

Less than twelve months before the 2022 presidential elections, potential candidates are shaping up. If the polls were to be taken seriously, the Duterte

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PDEA vs PNP shootout Rodrigo Duterte Ever Gotesco Mall
The Philippines 
February 28, 2021

Lacking intelligence

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1110 Views confidential funds, featured, intelligence funds, pdea, philippine national police, rodrigo duterte, war on drugs

When reports emerged last week that members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) were engaged in a shootout with unidentified armed men in Quezon

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Delfin Lorenzana Armed Forces of the Philippines Red-Tagging University of the Philippines
The Philippines 
January 30, 2021January 31, 2021

The recklessness of the AFP’s red-tagging

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1274 Views armed forces of the philippines, delfin lorenzana, featured, red tagging, university of the philippines

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has officially apologised for accusing several alumni of the University of the Philippines (UP) of being involved

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Harry Roque Rodrigo Duterte Sinovac vaccine
The Philippines 
January 13, 2021

No, Harry Roque – our reluctance to use the Sinovac vaccine isn’t due to “colonial mentality”

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1399 Views covid-19 philippines, COVID-19 vaccine, harry roque, rodrigo duterte, sinovac vaccine

As the Duterte administration faces scrutiny for seemingly favouring the Chinese-made Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque hit back at critics by accusing

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The Philippines 
January 10, 2021

Reviving the death penalty will only worsen injustice in the Philippines

Posted By: Louie Encabo 2196 Views death penalty, featured, imelda marcos, jonel nuezca, police brutality, ronald dela rosa

A prevalence of serious crimes has renewed calls to reinstate the death penalty in the country. The nation was up in arms over the

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COVID-19 vaccine Presidential Security Group Rodrigo Duterte
The Philippines 
January 6, 2021

Above the law

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1404 Views armed forces of the philippines, covid-19 philippines, COVID-19 vaccine, featured, presidential security group, rodrigo duterte, sinovac vaccine

In the latest development of the “VIP vaccinations” controversy, President Rodrigo Duterte has effectively told the nation that he and his soldiers are above

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The Philippines 
December 29, 2020December 29, 2020

The “VIP vaccinations” scandal prove there is one rule for the ruling class, another for everyone else

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1217 Views covid-19 pandemic, covid-19 philippines, COVID-19 vaccine, featured, rodrigo duterte, sinovac vaccine

In its campaign against COVID-19, the Duterte administration adopted the slogan, “We Heal as One”, emphasizing the need for national unity amidst the global

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CPP NPA NDF lightning rally protest
The Philippines 
December 26, 2020December 26, 2020

A reminder that CPP membership isn’t illegal anymore

Posted By: Louie Encabo 2200 Views anti-subversion law, communist party of the philippines, featured, new people's army, red tagging, rodrigo duterte

December 26 marks the founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), an underground revolutionary organisation that has now existed for 52

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Jee Ick-Joo Winston Ragos Philippine National Police brutality impunity Rodrigo Duterte
The Philippines 
December 23, 2020

Crime in the PNP: A systemic problem, not a series of isolated incidents

Posted By: Louie Encabo 1946 Views featured, frank gregorio, jee ick joo, jonel nuezca, philippine national police, police brutality, sonya gregorio, winston ragos

Amidst the public uproar over the cold-blooded killing of a 52-year old woman and her son by an off-duty police officer, Philippine National Police

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