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My exclusive By Raïssa Robles When Senator Antonio Trillanes was in detention for a capital crime, he was banned from using the Internet and mobile phone by a regional trial court judge. Trillanes appealed the ban but the government of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo successfully blocked this, as well as his request to physically attend Senate sessions. That was [...]
By Raïssa Robles President Benigno Aquino III has bit the bullet on the following issues: The passage of a Responsible Parenthood Law (otherwise known as the RH or Reproductive Health Law) that would, among others, make contraceptives freely available by the state; The indictment of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in at least one major criminal case; The indictment of [...]
By Raïssa Robles Personally, after covering so many stories on election cheating, I cannot believe that non-Senator Migz Zubiri does not know that someone very high up – most probably the one sitting in the highest office then – cheated for him to win. I’m sure he knows who he had to thank for his luck and who he [...]
by Raissa Robles Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s sins “are as clear as morning,” her predecessor Joseph “Erap” Estrada, who turns 74 today, just said. In particular, he said, the former President-turned-Congresswoman Arroyo should squarely face allegations she cheated his best friend Fernando Poe Jr. in the 2004 polls. Estrada is one political personality who makes covering Philippine politics fun. He keeps [...]
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