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Global ambition
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 4, 2024 - 12:00am
Critics may dismiss as a political circus the ongoing investigations at the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Inbreeding
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - October 2, 2024 - 12:00am
With every electoral exercise, the situation gets worse.
The ‘senatoriables’
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 30, 2024 - 12:00am
A part from conducting investigations and engaging in shouting matches, what else do senators do?
Worth a thousand words
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 27, 2024 - 12:00am
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words.
When Leni meets the VP
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 25, 2024 - 12:00am
What was the bratinella thinking?
Instant gratification
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 23, 2024 - 12:00am
Some quarters are complaining that the two chambers of Congress are going overboard in conducting investigations, saying these are no longer in aid of legislation.
Unbowed
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 20, 2024 - 12:00am
All along people thought persons who face congressional proceedings take the oath as a gesture of commitment to tell the truth.
Standing with the Phl
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 18, 2024 - 12:00am
When I was still a regular visitor to China, one mark of that country’s dizzyingly rapid economic progress that I noticed was the disappearance of bicycles from the streets of Beijing, and their replacement...
Not demure, not mindful
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 16, 2024 - 12:00am
The Maharlika billionaire’s club to which Ferdinand Marcos Junior belongs can use lessons on public sensitivity in this developing country.
Bringing it on
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 13, 2024 - 12:00am
Vice presidents, according to the incumbent, are often targeted by the administration because they are perceived to be next in line for the presidency in the next elections.
Ports of exit
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 11, 2024 - 12:00am
Even under arrest in Manila, Alice Guo continues to embarrass the government.
Celebrity and notoriety
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 9, 2024 - 12:00am
Last Friday I joked that Alice Guo was on her way to the Commission on Elections – not to face her disqualification case for faking her Philippine citizenship, but to file her certificate of candidacy for the...
Enhanced
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The weather scientists are hurting.
Losing friends
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 4, 2024 - 12:00am
China became the second largest economy by opening its arms to the world and submitting itself to international rules.
‘Weather-weather’
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - September 2, 2024 - 12:00am
It looks like the chickens in the previous administration are coming home to roost.
Connecting the dots
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 30, 2024 - 12:00am
Rodrigo Duterte has always defended his brutal crackdown on the illegal drug scourge as legitimate law enforcement.
Unhinged
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 28, 2024 - 12:00am
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., already showered with an impressive amount of blessings in life, has another blessing of sorts in his presidency: his vice president.
Regulating AI
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 26, 2024 - 12:00am
Filipinos aren’t the only ones worried about the use of AI-generated deepfakes to manipulate elections. And we’re not the only ones concerned about possible Chinese interference in our elections through...
Leaving Manila
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 23, 2024 - 12:00am
They come in threes at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 3.
By their lonesome
by Ana Marie Pamintuan - August 21, 2024 - 12:00am
Last Monday, a three-year-old girl I know had her kiddie school class conducted for the first time by remote mode.
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