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LOOK: This Grade 1 student is untroubled by gender stereotypes of children’s toys. In the worksheet, students are instructed to encircle toys that are for girls and box those for boys. The choices include jumping rope, robot, motorcycle, castle, & a Barbie doll. 📸: Dianne Agura
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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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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#WeDecide
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BREAKING. Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is among the winners of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Ressa is the first woman in this year's roster of laureates.
#NobelPrize
WATCH:
@Joseph_Morong
called out Roque for cutting off reporters as they ask questions, but the spokesperson denied, saying it was a problem on telecoms.
Was it?
@piaranada
says, “It’s just funny the telecoms seem to fail every time you say we’ve asked too many questions.”
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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'I COULD NOT BELIEVE THIS WAS REAL 🥺'
LOOK: American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande reposted a video of the crowd at Vice President Leni Robredo's
#PasigLaban
rally, singing her hit song 'Break Free' on Sunday, March 20. "I love you more than words," the popstar said.
HISTORIC GOLD FOR THE PHILIPPINES! 🇵🇭🤸🏻♂️
BREAKING NEWS. Carlos Yulo captures the Philippines' second Olympic gold and first-ever medal in gymnastics as he rules the men's artistic gymnastics floor exercise final in the Paris Games.
Congratulations, Caloy! ✨
#Paris2024
Rappler learned from well-placed sources that Smart is supposedly preparing for a Christmas campaign with
#BTS
, arguably the world’s most popular and successful musical act today.
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BREAKING. The First Division of the Philippine Court of Tax Appeals acquitted Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa and Rappler Holdings Corporation of the tax evasion charges filed by the Duterte government. Story to follow
‘SHEER NUMBNESS’
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, June 7, hits Senate Majority Floor Leader Joel Villanueva’s remark that the SOGIE equality bill is not urgent.
DEVELOPING STORY
#BrandRap
: The MOA Globe has been stolen.
SM Mall of Asia management posted this official statement on their Facebook page.
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'DARK AND TRYING TIMES'
LOOK: The entire campus of De La Salle University - Dasmariñas goes dark and silent on Thursday night, June 30, following the inauguration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. 📷 De La Salle University - Dasmariñas/Facebook
LOOK: A “taho” vendor in Cavite endured heavy rains just to deliver free “taho” as Christmas gift for his loyal buyers.
“Nagbabayad po ako pero di niya kinukuha... ‘Di niya talaga kinuha kasi pamasko na raw niya,” Anita Beato, the one who shared the photos on Facebook said.
WATCH: Robredo in ambush interview after the debate on Marcos family's estate deficiency taxes:
"Naimagine mo ba, somebody aspiring to be president, napakalaki ng utang sa bayan?" | via
@newsdwight
SALAMAT, HIDILYN DIAZ! 🇵🇭🥇🏋🏻♀️
Even with her mask on, Hidilyn Diaz could not hide her emotions. Tears of joy for the Philippines' first-ever Olympic gold medalist. (Photos: Edgard Garrido/Reuters)
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#PHI
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JUST IN: “Kakampink” crowd for Robredo-Pangilinan’s miting de avance in Makati just breached 750,000 as of 8:00 pm. That’s their biggest crowd yet in this high-stakes presidential polls.
#PHVote
#WeDecide
| via
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JUST IN. In an unprecedented move, over 1,200 Filipino bishops, priests, and deacons officially endorse VP Leni Robredo and Senator Kiko Pangilinan, who are running for president and vice president, respectively. | via
@bnzmagsambol
#PHVote
#WeDecide
DOUBLE OLYMPIC GOLD FOR THE PHILIPPINES! 🇵🇭🥇🥇
BREAKING NEWS. Carlos Yulo makes history anew as he becomes the Philippines' first double Olympic gold medalist after reigning in the men's artistic gymnastics vault final in the Paris Games.
Yulo, who also won gold in floor
BTS' J-Hope performs in Times Square New York City, New York, in during the first New Year's Eve event without restrictions since the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday, December 31. 📸: Jeenah Moon/Reuters
Filipina YouTuber and singer Mika Salamanca was arrested by Honolulu officials for breaking Hawaii's mandatory 14-day self-quarantine for foreign tourists and returning residents.
Pope Francis said in February that laws criminalizing LGBTQ+ people are a sin because God loves and accompanies people with same-sex attraction.
#PrideMonth
#Pride2023
LOOK: An elementary school student from Sta. Rita, Samar uses a makeshift ballpen to do schoolwork. His teacher stated in a post that she noticed her student covering his paper even if they were not having a quiz because he was too shy to show his pen. Photo by Maricor Baculanta
A BABY DINOSAUR PRESERVED IN AN EGG 🥚
LOOK: Scientists recently discovered a perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo inside a fossilized egg.
The baby dinosaur belonged to an oviraptorosaur and should have hatched roughly 70 million years ago in southern China. 📷: Lida Xing
WATCH: In this video played during the campaign rally in Pasay, actress Kathryn Bernardo endorses Leni Robredo for president and Kiko Pangilinan for VP. Bernardo and partner Daniel Padilla also endorsed Leni for VP during the 2016 elections.
#PHVote
#WeDecide
It's official - a cancel COC case vs presumptive President Bongbong Marcos reaches Supreme Court. Ted Te group's petition for certiorari tells SC: "A candidate's putative election victory cannot cure his ineligibility. Elections are more than just a numbers game." | via
@lianbuan
Senators Bato dela Rosa and Risa Hontiveros have contrasting reactions to the Philippines’ projected P15.8-trillion debt by the end of 2024, during a Senate budget hearing on Tuesday, August 15.
House Deputy Minority Leader France Castro slams Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte for branding critics of her offices’ confidential funds as enemies of peace.
#BudgetWatch
#PeraNgBayan
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VP Leni Robredo releases statement on the anti-terror bill: Terorismo ba talaga ang tuon ng Terror Bill? O gusto lang nitong bigyan ng kapangyarihan ang estado para bansagang terorista kung sino man ang kanilang gusto? | via
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WATCH: Vice presidential aspirant Kiko Pangilinan turns emotional as he delivers his speech at a joint press briefing with Leni Robredo on Friday, October 8.
Watch Pangilinan's full speech:
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#WeDecide
OMG! Happy birthday, Karen and Lyca! 🥳
LOOK: Broadcast journalist Karen Davila and singer Lyca Gairanod recreate their viral meme as they celebrate their upcoming birthday tomorrow, November 21.
Photo from Karen Davila/Instagram
EMOTIONAL WIN. 🥊💪🏻🇵🇭
Winning moment for Filipina boxer Nesthy Petecio as she now has a chance to capture another
#gold
medal for the Philippines! Photos: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#PHI
#Boxing
Senator Risa Hontiveros to Vice President Sara Duterte: Hindi ko hinihingi ang respeto mo, VP Sara. Ang hinihingi ko sa iyo, at ng taumbayan, ay accountability. | via
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LOOK: Pinoy Big Brother shows its Kapamilya pride as Bianca Gonzalez becomes the main host of the show after Toni Gonzaga's departure following her appearance at the proclamation rally of presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos.
📸: ABS-CBN Entertainment
NEWS UPDATE: The Ateneo Martial Law Museum hits actress Toni Gonzaga over the latter's interview with former senator and defeated vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos. | via
@jairojourno
Presidential bet VP Leni Robredo hits back at trolls for claiming that her walking barefoot after standing in heels during the CNN PH debate was just a stunt, fires back with another resibo: Kahit walang election, ginagawa ko yan pag sumasakit paa ko. Heto resibo. |
@maracepeda
Former Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio blasts Vice President Sara Duterte. This comes after Duterte branded the critics of her office’s confidential fund as “enemies of peace.”
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Risa Hontiveros to Sara Duterte: 'You're not special'
"If you’re so confident about those confidential funds, then defend them publicly," said Sen. Risa Hontiveros as she hit back at VP Sara Duterte on confidential funds in the OVP and DepEd budgets.
"I WILL BE RUNNING IN THE 2022 ELECTIONS."
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno has declared his intent to run in the 2022 elections. Diokno emphasized the need to have people in power who can respond to those “crying out for justice and accountability.”
“Wala kayong utang na loob kahit kanino.”
Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto tells students that they should not thank him for their scholarship because it was the people’s money that funds their education. "Mag-aral lang kayo nang mabuti," he advised.
Rosuta Calacala, 62, passed the Bar on her first try. She entered law school at 58.
Two of her children are CPAs who financed her law school education. She is a LGU employee from Jones, Isabela and plans to help her kababayans in their province. | via
@jairojourno
'My mother is an example of how fascism takes hold, is made acceptable, normalized, facilitated, ushered in'
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More in this
#IMHO
piece by Loren Legarda's son, Lorenzo.
SUHO IN STANFORD 🏫
LOOK: EXO's Suho visited Stanford University for their Korean Studies conference on Thursday, May 19 to discuss on the Korean Wave. The idol shared his personal experience as a K-Pop idol and the global influence of Korean culture. 📸:
@SMTOWNGLOBAL
WATCH: Felix dela Torre, owner of sunken PH boat by Chinese fishing ship, says he feels like Filipinos have turned into "slaves" and "lost our rights in our own territory." | via
@ramboreports
WATCH: Drone shots of that record-breaking 780,000 “Kakampinks” who attended the miting de avance of the Robredo-Pangilinan, a massive show of force on the last day of the 2022 campaign period.
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#WeDecide
🎥: VP Leni Media Bureau | via
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‘ARTIST IN SERVICE’
Former domestic helper now renowned photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani graduated from New York University!
In her graduation post, Bacani honored her ancestors, acknowledged that she is “a product of trauma caused by a cycle of poverty.” Photos from Bacani's IG
LOOK: A member of Leody de Guzman's campaign team posed for a photo with Ferdinand Marcos Jr., while wearing a shirt with "Never Again" print.
During Martial law, 3,240 were killed, 70,000 were imprisoned, and 34,000 were tortured. | via
@jairojourno
📷 Kabataan Para Kay Leody
February’s first Sunday this year is extra special!
02-02-2020 is a rare, eight-digit palindrome date because it reads the same backwards in ALL date formats: MM-DD-YYYY, DD-MM-YYYY, and YYYY-MM-DD. It is the only one of its kind this century. 😮
JUST IN: Presidential candidate Leni Robredo will be holding her miting de avance on Saturday, May 7, at Ayala Ave cor Makati Ave in Makati City. Before that, she’ll go back to her home region Bicol for a series of grand rallies in Sorsogon, Legazpi, & Naga.
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@maracepeda
SILVER FOR THE PHILIPPINES!!!
BREAKING NEWS. Nesthy Petecio is now the first Filipina Olympic boxing medalist after winning
#SILVER
in the Tokyo Olympics women's featherweight class! CONGRATULATIONS, NESTHY! 💪🏻
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#PHI
#Boxing
BREAKING: Pasig court acquits Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and Rappler Holdings Corporation in a 5th tax evasion charge filed by the Duterte administration.
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PROTECC THEIR IDENTITY 😸
LOOK: Netizens had a laugh after Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto posted a photo of a cat being spayed/neutered. The cat’s face was blurred, in what netizens think is an attempt to protect the cat’s identity. 📷: Mayor Sotto
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who benefited the most from disinformation in the 2022 presidential polls, said on Monday, June 19, that “fake news should have no place in modern society.”
CARLO PAALAM IS A WIN AWAY FROM GOLD! 🇵🇭
BREAKING NEWS. Filipino boxer Carlo Paalam is on the verge of making history as he moves up to the gold-medal match of Tokyo Olympics men's flyweight class. LABAN, CARLO! 💪🏻
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#PHI
#Boxing
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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Skrrt! 👊😜
LOOK: Ruben Zata Rivera, a student at Tarlac Christian College, makes a parody of Mimiyuuuh’s poses for his graduation creative shots, and look, it’s ya girl Mimi indeed!
UPDATED. The sale has led National Intelligence Coodinating Agency (NICA) Director General Alex Paul Monteagudo to red-tag Adarna House, accusing the publishing company of “radicalizing” children against the government.
#NeverAgain
LOOK: A pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially major advance that could help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant. Photos by Joe Carrotta/ NYU Langone Health via Reuters
JUST IN. The International Criminal Court will move ahead with its investigation into the killings in the Philippines under former president Rodrigo Duterte. The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber approved today the request of Prosecutor Karim Khan to resume probe.
FLOOR EXERCISE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST 🇵🇭🥇
For the second straight edition, a Filipino captures an Olympic gold medal.
Carlos Yulo delivers the Philippines’ first-ever medal in Olympic gymnastics as he rules the men’s floor exercise final in the Paris Games.
#Paris2024
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FIRST UAAP MEN’S BASKETBALL TITLE SINCE 1986! 🏆🔥
BREAKING. UP ends a three-decade UAAP title drought as the Fighting Maroons dethrone the Ateneo Blue Eagles in Game 3 in overtime, 72-69, for the men’s basketball championship!
#UAAPSeason84
#UAAPFinals
WATCH: VP Leni says Mayor Isko Moreno’s position towards the family of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was one of the reasons that finally pushed her to run for president: Merong mga non-negotiables and yung mga Marcos, non-negotiable yun sa akin.
The microphone of the neophyte lawmaker from party-list group Kabataan was turned off when he tried to question the speedy passage of the proposed 2024 budget on Wednesday night, September 27.
HISTORY IS MADE ✨
BREAKING NEWS. Based on projections, Kamala Harris is poised to become the first woman, first Black, and first South Asian vice president of the United States.
#Elections2020
#USVote
#Vote
The young Pasig City mayor is the only Filipino among the awardees recognized for their tireless work 'to defend transparency, combat corruption, and ensure accountability in their own countries.'
JUST IN. Former senator Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV is foregoing a Senate comeback so he can focus on running Vice President Leni Robredo’s presidential campaign in the high-stakes 2022 elections.
#PHVote
#WeDecide
"Ma'am Leni, sa'yo na ang bato!"
LOOK: Actress Angel Locsin joins the crowd at the PasigLaban People's Rally for Vice President Leni Robredo and running mate Senator Kiko Pangilinan on Sunday, March 20. 📷: Angel Locsin/IG
#PHVote
#PHVoteRobredo
LOOK: The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report found guns of the same serial number reappearing in crime scenes of drug war killings, suggesting that Philippine police planted evidence of guns. | via
@lianbuan
WATCH: Ilocanos backing the candidacies of VP Leni Robredo and Sen Kiko Pangilinan march at the commercial center of Laoag City, Ilocos Norte to boost support for the tandem in the province.
#PHVote
#WeDecide
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@jmichaelmgsINQ
🎥 Andy Dugay
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. | via
@maracepeda
#PHVote
BEST OLYMPIC FINISH FOR OBIENA 🇵🇭💪🏼
JUST IN. EJ Obiena falls short of a prized medal in the Paris Olympics as he finishes fourth in the men's pole vault final.
Obiena fails to clear 5.95m as he misses out on becoming the Philippines' first Olympic athletics medalist since
A WIN AWAY FROM GOLD 🥊💪🏻🇵🇭
BREAKING NEWS. Philippines' Nesthy Petecio earns a spot in the gold-medal match of
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#Boxing
women's featherweight class after defeating Irma Testa of Italy in the semifinals. Congratulations!
Revenge travel? 🤔
Kabataan Representative Raoul Manuel slams President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for once again watching the F1 Grand Prix in Singapore this year.
“Two years in a row na ito nangyari [F1 attendance], and the First Lady is proud of the President’s attendance this
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. | via
@maracepeda