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‘Vietnam set to become biggest expansionist power in South China Sea’

The Manila Times 28 Aug 2025
We don’t need to make China an enemy to resolve our disputes with it in the South China Sea ... Similarly, Vietnam has also done so, only in the past decade ... Marcos Sr ... Occupy ... Marcos Sr ... Senate. What a country ... Aquino III ... DK1 ... Facebook. Rigoberto Tiglao.
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Marcos shamelessly tries to spin flood-control mega mess

The Manila Times 26 Aug 2025
THIS is a textbook case for study if you’re a student — or practitioner — of propaganda. Shameless, though, on the part of President Marcos Jr. and his PR people ... Kennon ... PR ... And fourth, the obvious ... Facebook. Rigoberto Tiglao. X. Twitter.
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Marcos must go: A ghost presidency must end

The Manila Times 24 Aug 2025
HERE’S the brutal reality. The flood-control scandal involving ghost and defective projects allocated tens of billions of pesos has inarguably demonstrated that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr ... We have a ghost presidency. ... Carina ... Rigoberto Tiglao. X.
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The Economist: ‘Dutertes resurgent’

The Manila Times 21 Aug 2025
FIRST published 182 years ago, the London-based The Economist has built up a track record as the voice of the West’s ruling class, now mostly with the neoliberal, globalist and centrist ideological stance ... Following is ... Marcos ... Rigoberto Tiglao. X.
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Is the Ombudsman post now the fallback plan to take out Sara?

The Manila Times 19 Aug 2025
I WAS surprised — no, shocked — when the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) released the list of applicants for the Ombudsman position and it included Anna Liza G. Logan ... Weaponize the Office of the Ombudsman ... Immunity ... Leaked ... Rigoberto Tiglao. X.
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Brawner grossly ignorant of how we lost Panatag in 2012

The Manila Times 17 Aug 2025
First of two parts. ARMED Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr ... If Brawner can provide proof that he is right, and I am wrong, I will immediately stop writing as a columnist in this paper ... Campbell ... PNoy ... EEZ ... 20, 2025 ... Rigoberto Tiglao. X.
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Southeast Asian nations tilting toward China

The Manila Times 14 Aug 2025
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has strengthened our vassalage to the United States, implying that it would even join the superpower in defending Taiwan against China when it claims it violently as part of its territory ... Data ... Timespans ... Rigoberto Tiglao.
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Marcos Jr. is grossly, dangerously ignorant of issues involving China

The Manila Times 12 Aug 2025
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s understanding of our relations with China is close to zero ... First, he is ignorant about the Taiwan issue ... But that would not necessarily drag us into the conflict ... Strike ... Province ... * ... Vietnam ... Rigoberto Tiglao. X.
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How the hell could Romualdez fool so many people?

The Manila Times 10 Aug 2025
Senate President Francis Escudero — an ally of President Marcos — tore down this fabrication during the Senate voting that affirmed the Supreme Court ruling that the impeachment was illegal with one rhetorical question ... Rigoberto Tiglao. X.
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Blunderer Romualdez should blame himself, not the Supreme Court

The Manila Times 08 Aug 2025
IT’s a total debacle for the Marcos-Romualdez plot to stop through impeachment Vice President Sara Duterte’s winning the presidency in 2024 ... Romualdez and his gang’s complaint was the fourth in two months ... WPS ... Order ... Rigoberto Tiglao.
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Has Romualdez gone mad?

The Manila Times 05 Aug 2025
First of two parts ... First, in a video released by his office on Aug ... This is the first time ever for the House of Representatives to be a petitioner in the Supreme Court, a co-equal but separate branch of government ... Duterte ... Facebook. Rigoberto Tiglao. X.
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The primordial crime of bribery of the impeachment

The Manila Times 03 Aug 2025
the brazen bribery of congressmen to secure their signatures on that constitutionally infirm complaint. Let’s start with the elephant in the room. On July 29, 2025, Navotas Rep ... The math alone is mind-boggling ... Romualdez ... Reckoning ... Rigoberto Tiglao.
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Marcos ally exposes Romualdez’s hijacking of budget

The Manila Times 31 Jul 2025
NAVOTAS Rep ... Mystery solved ... But when Tiangco took to the plenary earlier this week, leveling explosive allegations against Speaker Romualdez, he did just that ... This is not what our Constitution intended. This is not democracy.” ... Rigoberto Tiglao.
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SC ruling paves the way for a Sara presidency in 2028

The Manila Times 29 Jul 2025
While Speaker Martin Romualdez still retained his speakership, the pollical landscape has drastically changed ... Respondent ... Sara is incontrovertibly the shoo-in for the highest post of the land in 2028 ... Her closest competitor? Sen ... Rigoberto Tiglao.
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Listen to Trump: ‘Get along with China and we won’t be angry’

The Manila Times 27 Jul 2025
Instead, Trump told him in front of the White House media on July 23, 10.52 minutes into the 35-minute event. “I don’t mind if he deals with China, because we’re getting along with China very well ... President. As Sen ... Rigoberto Tiglao. X.
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