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ANC Soundbytes: Marcos dictatorship-era names back for 2019 polls

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 11:05 PM

Two worlds collide again as prominent political names of the Martial Law period are set to contest Senate seats in the 2019 elections. Find out who they are in this video. #ANCAlerts Read more »

Scions of Marcos tyranny opposition leaders eye Senate seats

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 16 10:55 PM

Scions of opposition leaders in the Martial Law era are competing for a Senate seat against the eldest daughter of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. Read more »

'Bakit mag-aadmit sa hindi ginawa?' Imee Marcos denies atrocities during martial law

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 16 12:06 PM

Some supporters of Diokno, the founding dean of the De La Salle University College of Law, chanted "Marcos, Hitler, Diktador, Tuta" as Marcos entered the Commission on Elections office to register her candidacy. Read more »

Grupo di kontento sa pagsuspende ng dagdag-buwis sa langis

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 15 10:07 PM

Hindi kontento ang mga militanteng grupo sa pagsuspende ng gobyerno sa dagdag-buwis sa langis para sa susunod sa taon bilang hakbang upang makaagapay ang mga konsumer sa taas-presyo ng mga bilihin.  Read more »

Popoy De Vera is now CHED chairman

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 15 07:26 PM

Malacañang has named Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Commissioner Prospero De Vera III as the agency’s chairman. Read more »

Can ethical business help secure peace in the southern Philippines?

Lee Mannion, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Oct 12 11:28 PM

LONDON- Could ethical business be the key to ending one of Southeast Asia's most intractable separatist conflicts? Read more »

Changing faces of the Supreme Court

By the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group
Posted at Oct 12 08:23 PM

By the end of President Duterte’s term on June 30, 2022, there will be 13 Duterte appointees to the Supreme Court. Read more »

'Stop the TRAIN excise tax on fuel'

Junny Roy, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 10 07:36 PM

Senator Bam Aquino, with Senator Francis Pangilinan, files a resolution to stop the excise tax on fuel under the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law, at the Senate legal office on Wednesday.  Read more »

Bangladesh sets death penalty for drug offences in draft law

Ruma Paul, Reuters
Posted at Oct 09 07:13 AM

Bangladesh's cabinet on Monday approved a draft law prescribing the death penalty for drug offences, despite widespread criticism over a narcotics crackdown in which police have shot dead more than 200 people since May.   Read more »

Senate delays passage of 'TRABAHO' bill pending review on jobs impact

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 08 11:58 PM

The Duterte administration's second tax reform package faces more delays as government agencies work to shed more light on the measure's possible effect on employment.  Read more »

OPINION: Digong’s ‘Imelda’ moment

Raissa Robles
Posted at Oct 07 11:54 PM

As Filipinos reeled from rising prices, partly brought about by the Duterte government’s TRAIN tax law, the President and his “family” secretly went to Hong Kong. Read more »

Filmmakers, artists condemn red-tagging of movie screenings

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 05 06:58 PM

Why is the government afraid of films? Read more »

ALAMIN: Mga karapatan ng mamimili sa presyo, refund

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 04 05:34 PM

Sa ilalim sa Republic Act 7394 o mas kilala bilang "Price Tag Law" nakalahad ang mga karapatan ng mga konsumer na maprotektahan laban sa pananamantala, gaano man kalaki o kaliit ang tindahan. Read more »

Palace: No reason to declare martial law nationwide

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 03 04:30 PM

MANILA - Malacañang on Wednesday insisted that there is no reason for President Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law nationwide, after AFP Chief of Staff Carlito Galvez Jr. alleged that communist rebels want Duterte to declare one. Read more »

Embattled Trump court nominee drops Harvard teaching

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 03 08:42 AM

NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has given up a teaching position at Harvard Law School, a spokesman said Tuesday, as he contends with sexual assault and harassment allegations. Read more »

Saudi woman barred from marrying musician

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 03 02:52 AM

A Saudi woman has lost a judicial battle to marry the man of her choice as a court deemed him "religiously" unfit because he plays a musical instrument, a Saudi newspaper reported Tuesday. Read more »

Fewer but deadlier conflicts in Mindanao in 2017 under martial law: study

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 02 08:32 PM

Restricted access to firearms under martial law helped reduce violent incidents in Mindanao, but the region still recorded an “unprecedented” number of deaths last year, a new study released Thursday showed. Read more »

A childhood spent during the Martial Law years

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 02 10:39 AM

What is a little girl to do when your siblings are arrested one by one as Martial Law reigns over the nation? Read more »

BIR collection, posibleng higit sa P2 trilyon dahil sa TRAIN

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 02 05:30 AM

Naniniwala ang Bureau of Internal Revenue na maabot nito ang collection target na higit P2 trilyon sa susunod na taon. Read more »

Pagpapalabas ng mga pro-Marcos video sa isang unibersidad sa Bacolod, binatikos

Martian Muyco, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 28 10:46 PM

BACOLOD CITY - Umani ng batikos ang pagpapalabas ng isang pro-Marcos documentary sa isang unibersidad sa Bacolod City. Read more »