We spoke to residents of Ilocos Norte, the northern PH political stronghold of Pres Marcos and the site of 2 key Balikatan military drills last week. They fear being caught in the crossfire of the US-China rift and hope the Marcoses would protect them should tensions boil over.
Kung binabastos nang ganito ang kasamahan mong reporter, tumindig ka, tanungin mo uli yung tanong na ayaw sagutin. Silence means complicity. Industriya natin ang inaatake dito. Ano yun, magsasalita ka na lang pag nangyari na sa’yo? Journalist tawag mo sa sarili mo tapos duwag ka?
WATCH: In his first presscon after the presumptive win of his boss, Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., Vic Rodriguez ignores questions on how the incoming chief diplomat can travel to the United States with a standing contempt order there.
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Noynoy Aquino wasn't perfect, but his anti-corruption drive helped revive the Philippine economy. We were able to criticize his policies without the fear that the state would come after us. Thank you for your service, PNoy. Rest in peace.
JUST IN: Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray endorses VP Leni Robredo for president and running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan for vice president. She joins Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach and Miss International 2016 Kylie Versoza in backing Robredo.
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Our politicians, Cabinet secretaries, and even their families are getting prioritized in testing for COVID-19. So what’s really the DOH policy here? Isn’t there a triage to be followed? So mas priority ba ang makapangyarihan dito kaysa ordinaryong Pilipino?
Sen. Bong Go confirms to
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that President Duterte’s daughter, Kitty, and partner, Honeylet, were tested for COVID-19 yesterday. No results yet. File photo courtesy: Honeylet Avanceña via
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Only Net25, SMNI, and GMA7 were invited to the press conference of the presumptive president. State-run PTV4 not even there. Preview of what’s to come for the critical press by June 30.
Pilipinas, game knb?
It has truly been an honor to tell the stories inspired by the “pink revolution” of the 2022 elections. Thanks to VP Leni and Sen Kiko for treating journalists with respect. Definitely learned a lot in this coverage and earned friends for life. Tuloy-tuloy lang tayo. 💪🏻
FACT: Been covering VP Leni Robredo’s presidential campaign since she declared her candidacy. NEVER did she say there would be chaos if she loses this race.
Her male rivals fell into that trap of a question ‘no?
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Duterte’s ego is so small that he would threaten our medical frontliners just because they told him our healthcare system is on the brink of collapse. Mr. President, they spoke up not to spite you, but to HELP YOU address this pandemic. Grow up.
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WATCH: Aerial shots of that 306,000-strong "Kakampink" crowd for the Leni-Kiko tandem in Naga City, Camarines Sur tonight. Not surprising, as Bicolanos are expected to pull out all the stops for the sole Bicolana in the 2022 presidential race. 🎥 VP Leni Media Bureau
So, prices of food and fuel are soaring, people are hardly getting by without decent pay, farmers are still struggling to sell their harvest, there’s a spike in COVID-19 cases– and your pet bill is renaming an airport? Really, in this economy?!
BREAKING: Iglesia ni Cristo endorses Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte, INC announces via Net 25. INC, known for its bloc-voting practice, had 2.6 million members as of 2015 according to latest PSA data
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FACT CHECK: In his latest tirade against VP Leni Robredo, President Rodrigo Duterte falsely claimed she had questioned his absence when Typhoon Ulysses devasted parts of the country. The VP did NOT say this. The President seems to be parroting lines by anti-Robredo trolls.
Another Robredo will be attending Harvard University after Dr. Tricia Robredo, daughter of VP Leni Robredo, gets admitted to its Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery program. Her older sister Aika tweets a copy of the admission letter
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3 weeks before the May polls, presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo’s campaign team changes their symbol from a pink rose to a flower bearing the colors of the Philippine flag, and the campaign colors of Robredo and running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan.
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Jessica Soho asking the really tough questions tonight. Hindi naman na ko nagulat. She is THE Jessica Soho for a reason, idol ng maraming journalists katulad ko. Matinik magtanong. Kudos also to the GMA team behind these presidential interviews. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
JUST IN: As of 8:30 pm, “Kakampink” crowd in presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo’s hometown Naga City is at 306,000, says the Incident Management Team.
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📷 Naga City Govt FB page
We’re covering the launch of former VP Leni Robredo’s Angat Buhay NGO, which she eyes to become the “biggest volunteer movement” in the Philippines.
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The government would rather shut down ABS-CBN instead of getting its act together to fix the COVID-19 crisis. It was during Ferdinand Marcos' Martial Law when ABS-CBN was last ordered to close down. Dictators really are afraid of the truth.
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LOOK: Drone shots of the 76,000-strong “Kakampink” crowd in Dagupan City, Pangasinan during the Robredo-Pangilinan tandem’s grand rally. That’s more than double the size of the crowd when frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr held rally in Bayambang. 📷 Jimmy Dasal
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Josephine was a HS classmate. She used to spend every morning before class teaching us how to solve hard math problems. She was kind and always stood for what she believed in. That the military continues to defile her memory like this even after her killing should make us angry.
Parlade said that if Liza Soberano continued to support Gabriela, she would die like activist Josephine "Jo" Lapira, the 22-year-old student from UP Manila who was killed in a clash between government troops and suspected members of NPA in Batangas.
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'PAY THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF TAXES ON TIME'
President Bongbong Marcos addressed the public at the kickoff of the national tax campaign at PICC in Pasay City on Tuesday, February 7.
Would these male presidential bets – all of whom got single digits in the last Pulse Asia survey – even hold this press con if they had lost their campaign machinery to a man, and not a woman like VP Leni Robredo? Macho politics at its finest.
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VP Leni Robredo smiling as she listens to the spiels of her daughters; Aika, Tricia & Jillian moments before they go onstage; Sen Kiko Pangilinan w/ his family just before his final speech on the campaign; Robredo waving to the behemoth crowd of 780,000 “Kakampinks”
LOOK: Another huge turnout for presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo and her running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan during their grand rally in Butuan City. 📷 Jimmy Dasal/Team Kiko Pangilinan
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LOOK: Superstar Ariana Grande shares an aerial video of the over 90,000 Kakampinks singing her song “Break Free” during the grand rally of the Leni-Kiko tandem, a full street bursting out in song as if they were in a concert, not a political rally.
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You know what Maria Ressa's guilty verdict means? You could still be held liable for libel for an online article posted BEFORE the Cybercrime Law was enacted. The Duterte gov't's message to its critics is clear: toe the line or you're next. But we will not be cowed.
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Emotional moment for Pangilinan, as farmers from San Nicolas, Pampanga surprise him onstage. If politicians won’t raise his hands on this campaign trail, then these farmers will. Touched by the gesture, Pangilinan can’t help but cry. He still calls Robredo to join him in front.
LOOK: Aerial shots of the crowd that gathered for presidential bet and VP Leni Robredo and her running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan at Southwestern
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As her term as VP ends, Leni Robredo is back as a regular citizen again. She changes her official Facebook page name from “VP Leni Robredo” to “Atty Leni Robredo.” She plans to work again as an alternative lawyer with Saligan while juggling work in Angat Buhay NGO
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One last hurrah for VP Leni Robredo: The lone female presidential contender is set to hold a pasasalamat gathering with her supporters at the Liwasang Aurora in Quezon City Circle on Fri, May 13, at 5 pm.
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How does President Duterte want the police and military to deal with violators of the COVID-19 lockdown? "Shoot them dead," he says. The virus kills, but our government is more deadly.
It truly is the end. Outgoing VP Leni Robredo’s portrait is now placed beside those of past VPs.
Today is Robredo’s final day at the QC Reception House, which served as the HQ of the Office of the Vice President these past 6 years. 🎥 Apple Mae Vallarta
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Lorenzo Legarda Leviste, son of Loren Legarda, writes a scathing piece condeming his own mother for running under the ticket of the dictator’s son. It’s rare for children of well-entrenched politicians to openly defy their parents this way. Just tells you high the stakes are now.
Loren Legarda's son, Lorenzo, says his mother's decision to run under the Uniteam senatorial slate "spits in the faces" of those whose lives were "destroyed by the Marcoses and the Dutertes."
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VP Leni Robredo now live on Facebook to share the many gifts, paintings, illustrations, even religious images that her supporters have given to her during the campaign period. She says most were handed to her during sorties and rallies. She plans to archive them.
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And after six years, this is it: Leni Robredo, the 14th vice president of the Philippines, leaves her office for the last time. Her security detail gives her their send-off. Her staff claps as the van begins moving. Robredo waves goodbye to them for the last time as a sitting VP.
One more thing I observed while covering the Cavite rally: That huge crowd WAITED for Robredo, even if she was late due to traffic. They really wanted to hear her speak. All throughout the night, they were chanting confidently, "Hindi kami bayad!"
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Zoe Gabriel, a Filipina teen in Singapore, is a real class act. Got a lot of hate online for describing the Charles and Keith bag her dad gifted her as luxury, but she handled it like a pro. This girl was raised well.
Sobering reminder from Tricia Robredo, daughter of presidential bet VP Leni Robredo: Don’t want to be the one who spoils the party but let’s address the elephant in the room: our rallies have been the absolute best but the situation on the ground is very different.
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WATCH:
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called out Roque for cutting off reporters as they ask questions, but the spokesperson denied, saying it was a problem on telecoms.
Was it?
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says, “It’s just funny the telecoms seem to fail every time you say we’ve asked too many questions.”
Supporters of presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo and running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan now gathering at the Bellarmine Field of the Ateneo de Manila University for the tandem’s thanksgiving gathering today.
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Robredo arrives at QC City Hall and is welcomed by Mayor Joy Belmonte, who leads the country’s most vote-rich city with over 1.4 M registered voters.
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VP Leni Robredo's Bayanihan E-Konsulta, the free teleconsultation service her office launched amid the pandemic, is set to end its operations on May 31.
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The main stage of the Tarlac City Plazuela for the Uniteam event fronts the monument of the late Senator Ninoy Aquino, but he has been covered by a tent so that he is not seen from the stage.
WATCH: Some 45,000 Kakampinks attend the grand rally of presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo and her running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan in Malolos, Bulacan.
Will tens of thousands of attendees become the new staple at Leni-Kiko rallies?
🎥 Team Kiko Pangilinan
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Child marriage is now a CRIME in the Philippines. Anyone facilitating or solemnizing child marriages could end up in jail.
Great news. Regardless of culture and tradition, child marriages rob young girls and boys of their dreams. It's about time this is criminalized in the PH.
“Walang Solid North!” is the rallying cry of supporters of presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo tonight in Echague, Isabela, part of the so-called Solid North provinces commanded by the Marcoses. Huge crowd of Kakampinks in Marcos country📷 Jimmy Dasal/Team Kiko
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Look who’s here at the
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office: presidential candidate and VP Leni Robredo, who’s next to be interviewed by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa for our upcoming presidential interviews.
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Malacañang really insisted on airing this pre-taped address of the President past 1 am... just so he could tell LGUs to “stand down and abide by the directives of the IATF.” Looks like someone’s allergic to good governance. 🤔
Robredo arrives at the cathedral together with her daughters Aika and Tricia. Mass attendees clap their hands loudly upon their arrival. Jillian unable to join today as she has an exam. Robredo stands up and briefly waves to the crowd.
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LOOK: The Robredos pose for a photo on Jillian’s graduation day at New York University. Jillian is graduating from NYU with a double degree in mathematics and economics. 📷 Tricia Robredo’s Twitter
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WATCH: Speaking in Hiligaynon in his home turf Roxas City, ex-DILG chief Mar Roxas endorses his former running mate VP Leni Robredo for president, asks his kasimanwas to give their full support to Robredo.
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WATCH: In Olongapo City, the host tells the crowd as presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo stands on stage: “Si Len-Len, ang kape nya, matapang! Kaya kang ipaglaban!” The crowd cheers. 📷: Robredo campaign team
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What makes the PhilHealth corruption scandal – just the latest in a string of controversies – so vile is that these people are stealing money from sick and poor Filipinos. Pinagkakakitaan ang mga walang laban.
Today is my final workday with Rappler. I’m grateful for the lifelong friends I met and for the editors who made me the journalist I am today. This wasn’t an easy decision to make.
6 days before the May 9 elections, presidential bet VP Leni Robredo releases video to reiterate her comprehensive economic recovery plan and to give a pep talk to her “Kakampinks” in the crucial homestretch of the campaign.
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Some quarters are purposely taking out of context a part of my FB Live interview with presidential bet VP Leni Robredo, where I asked her what’s her fave book. Contrary to what’s being spread, she ANSWERED my Q. She said it’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee.
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WATCH: After the Mass, Robredo was escorted by the priests to the back of the cathedral. Outside, her supporters started singing “Rosas” together with this choir.
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VP Leni Robredo now on the way to US with her daughters Aika, Tricia, and Jillian for the latter’s grad in New York University. They booked economy seats and had a 5-hour layover before reaching the US. Robredo also pokes fun at Tricia for sleeping at the airport.
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WATCH: In Muntinlupa City, VP Leni Robredo finally meets tricycle driver Ronald Carigo, who went viral last month for his heartfelt explanation on why he is voting Robredo for president. Video: Mav Flores - Team Leni Robredo
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WATCH: Here is a bird's eye view of the thousands of Kakampinks who flocked to the Quezon Memorial Circle for the "Pink Sunday" rally of presidential bet Leni Robredo and her running mate Senator Kiko Pangilinan.
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Video from Team Kiko Pangilinan
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Minutes before her term as VP officially ends, Leni Robredo dedicates a Facebook post to thank her close-in staff, aide de camp, security officers, drivers who worked for the past 6 years. She names each of them and thanks them one by one.
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Cracks emerging in Solid North: As of 7 pm, local police say some 60,000 “Kakampinks” are joining the grand rally of presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo and her running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan tonight in Dagupan City, Pangasinan.
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Robredo finally arrives here at General Trias Sports Complex, to the delight of Kakampinks. Managed to go near Robredo briefly, asked if she got caught in Cavite traffic. She says yes. She and her staff needed to hitch rides on motorcycles to get here.
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“Maid in Malacañang” clearly out to make up lies and to further distort history. Hindi lang ito fiction; ito ay kasinungalingang ipalalabas para lalong mapaniwala ang mga Pilipino sa myth-making ng mga Marcos, para tuluyang makalimutan ng sambayanan ang kalupitan nung Martial Law
Kandidato pa lang ‘yan sa lagay na ‘yan. Paano kung nakaupo na? This is a glimpse of how the Marcos administration would deal with critical press.
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“Kakampinks” in Pampanga are making a stand tonight for presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo and running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan. As of 6 pm, they are 100,000-strong in San Fernando City, say local organizers, police, rescue team.
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Today was a particularly difficult day.
I just want to say thank you to everyone who reached out to check how we were doing, to those who offered to help, to those who spoke up and stood with us. Nakakataba ng puso. Maraming salamat.
Lalaban lang tayo. Tuloy-tuloy lang. 🥹
DOJ Secretary Boying Remulla once supported restoring the death penalty for drug convicts. Will he maintain the same position now that his own son was arrested for drug possession?
VP Leni Robredo releases a copy of the 8-page letter she wrote to Pres Spox Harry Roque specifying her comprehensive suggestions on how the gov't can improve its COVID-19 response, including an online portal where public can monitor loans taken out by govt.
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Always the stage mom to her daughters, VP Leni Robredo shares an IG Stories post of her ironing the toga of her youngest daughter Jillian, who is set to graduate from New York University. Robredo is in the US with her 3 daughters for a much-needed vacation.
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So to those who have been asking these past days how VP Leni is, her ongoing FB Live is a good answer to your question. She’s strong, she’s okay, and she’s the pillar of strength for many of her supporters, staff, allies who are still grappling with the election results.
LOOK: The Ateneo de Manila University will confer upon former VP Leni Robredo the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, honoris causa during the grad ceremony on Aug 27, where she'll be commencement speaker too.
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Nobel laureate & Rappler CEO Maria Ressa holds back tears as she celebrates her court victory today. “Today, facts win, truth wins, justice wins,” adds her acquittal isn’t just for Rappler “but for every Filipino who has ever been unjustly accused.”
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Reaffirming the shutdown order against Rappler is one of the Duterte government’s final acts before its term ends by noon tomorrow. Not immediately executory, so it’s business as usual for us.
So laban lang. Magpapakatatag at ‘di magpapatinag. Tuloy-tuloy lang tayo.
Jam-packed crowd here at Iloilo Sports Complex for the grand rally of presidential candidate and VP Leni Robredo. Possibly the biggest crowd that gathered for Robredo since the official campaign period started in Feb.
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Ex-VP Leni Robredo hits the ground running even as a regular citizen. Yesterday, she siged a MOA w/ the Rotary Club of Makati, Southern Luzon State University, Quezon LGU for the construction of a dormitory for indigent students inside the school campus 📷 Robredo
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Presidential bet VP Leni Robredo challenges frontrunner, the late dictator’s son Ferdinand Marcos Jr, to a debate on the last stretch of the campaign, says she would no longer join the Comelec-KBP interviews as her volunteers have already organized rallies for her
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LOOK: Aerial shots of the Kakampink crowd that came for presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo & running mate Sen Kiko Pangilinan during their ongoing grand rally in Zamboanga City. Crowd is 27k-strong as of 7 pm, says Zamboanga City Planning Office 📷 Jimmy Dasal
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Vice President Leni Robredo is set to attend the Misa ng Pagkakaisa at Pasasalamat at the Naga Metropolitan Cathedral, where she will also take the opportunity to thank Nagueños who helped campaign for her in the 2022 elections.
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The office of presidential bet and VP Leni Robredo confirms that former Eraserheads frontman Ely Buendia will be among the celebrities to perform during Robredo's grand rally at Iloilo Sports Complex tomorrow night.
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