President Rodrigo Duterte drew flak on Monday after his controversial onstage kiss with an overseas Filipina worker while on an official visit to South Korea.
For the militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), the response made by Solicitor General Jose Calida to the petition to scrap the Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law is a gesture of hypocrisy.
The recent arrest of a women rights worker in Caraga region is another misogynistic move of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) with the aim of silencing women who refuse to cower in fear in the face of the continuing imposition of martial law in Mindanao.
The removal of former Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno from his office through a quo warranto filed by the Office of the Solicitor General poses a serious threat to the judicial independence in the country.
The Alliance of Concerned Teachers party list slammed the shortage of personnel and classrooms as same old woes confront the 23 million students, teachers and administrators as the school year 2018-2019 opens this June 4.