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FIRING LINE: Fare is fair?

adminSeptember 29, 2026September 29, 202606 mins

FIRING LINE: Fare is fair? By Robert B. Roque Jr. l September 29, 2026 Monday came, and so did the shock inside pasa-mo-bayad ko rows in jeepneys, e-jeeps, and buses as public transport fares jumped across the board! For ordinary jeepneys, fare is up from P13 to P14 for the first four kilometers; modern jeepneys…

Saudi Arabia Issues Urgent Global Warning: Gulf Security Critical Amid Iranian, Houthi Aggression

adminSeptember 29, 2026September 29, 202609 mins

Saudi Arabia Issues Urgent Global Warning: Gulf Security Critical Amid Iranian, Houthi Aggression By TheNATIONWEEK.com News Desk | September 29, 2026 NEW YORK – Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, delivered a powerful address to the UN General Assembly on Saturday, September 26, 2026, condemning “flagrant” Iranian and Houthi aggressions and issuing a…

UN Expands Blacklist of Companies Operating in Israeli Settlements

adminSeptember 28, 2026September 28, 202605 mins

UN Expands Blacklist of Companies Operating in Israeli Settlements By TheNATIONWEEK.com News Desk | September 28, 2026 GENEVA, Switzerland – The United Nations human rights office has significantly expanded its highly contentious database of companies with ties to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, adding 61 new firms and bringing the total to over 200….

FROM THE FRINGES: Retrospection, September 2026

adminSeptember 25, 2026September 25, 2026018 mins

FROM THE FRINGES: Retrospection, September 2026 By Jerome Aning | September 25, 2026 As part of our arrangement with this news website’s publisher, the fourth column of every month will be a retrospection of the three previous columns, devoting space for updates, addenda, and epilogues, as well as feedback or comments from readers, clarifications, and…

FIRING LINE: Second chances, second thoughts

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FIRING LINE: Second chances, second thoughts By Robert B. Roque Jr. l September 24, 2026 Good news, perhaps, for those who made mistakes and deserve a societal review like the first-time offender trapped in the turtle-paced legal system; the parent who — out of poverty — broke the law to put food on the table…

FIRING LINE: Drones and criminal ideas

adminSeptember 22, 2026September 22, 202607 mins

FIRING LINE: Drones and criminal ideas By Robert B. Roque Jr. | September 22, 2026 By now, more people reading the news know who Park Wang-yeol is, because of a widely circulated story that he was supposed to escape the Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm in Mindoro by clinging to a $74,000 drone. The 47-year-old…

Duterte Impeachment: Vote Threshold Debate Sparks Public Distrust Over Political Motives

Bing JabadanSeptember 21, 2026September 21, 202605 mins

Duterte Impeachment: Vote Threshold Debate Sparks Public Distrust Over Political Motives By Bing Jabadan – TheNATIONWEEK.com | September 21, 2026 MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Senate’s intricate debate over the voting threshold for Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment has intensified public skepticism, with millions of Filipinos increasingly viewing the proceedings as a politically engineered maneuver…

Immigration Officer Earns P500,000 Daily in Human Trafficking Operations at NAIA Arrested

Bing JabadanSeptember 18, 2026September 21, 202603 mins

Immigration Officer Earns P500,000 Daily in Human Trafficking Operations at NAIA Arrested By Bing Jabadan – TheNATIONWEEK.com | September 18, 2027 MANILA, Philippines – An immigration officer at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on September 12, 2026, for alleged involvement in a human trafficking…

FROM THE FRINGES: Tourism and Statistics

adminSeptember 18, 2026September 18, 2026015 mins

FROM THE FRINGES: Tourism and Statistics By Jerome Aning | September 18, 2026 September is Tourism Month in the Philippines, celebrated by the Department of Tourism (DOT), its regional offices and attached agencies, as well as local government units, and the country’s tourism industry sector. There is actually no formal government issuance designating a month for…

FIRING LINE: Power consumers catch a break

adminSeptember 17, 2026September 17, 202606 mins

FIRING LINE: Power consumers catch a break By Robert B. Roque Jr. | September 17, 2026 It’s happening. The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has turned on its good side and scrapped value-added tax (VAT) on the system loss charge stacked into every Filipino’s electricity bill. Either by political will or survival, the promise President…

From the Fringes: A cooling off period for the PH-CN socmed feud

NAIA Surpasses Undas Forecast: 1.29 Million Passengers, 4.4% Increase

Philippines Faces Record Inflation as October Rate Reaches 7.8%

Supreme Court Dismisses Romualdez Petition in Flood Control Plunder Case

Palestinians Seek US Policy Shift Amid Justice Concerns

AirAsia Philippines Fuels Surge in Long-Haul Exploration: Almaty Traffic Soars 1,000%

FIRING LINE: Fare is fair?

Saudi Arabia Issues Urgent Global Warning: Gulf Security Critical Amid Iranian, Houthi Aggression

UN Expands Blacklist of Companies Operating in Israeli Settlements

FROM THE FRINGES: Retrospection, September 2026

FIRING LINE: Second chances, second thoughts

FIRING LINE: Drones and criminal ideas

Duterte Impeachment: Vote Threshold Debate Sparks Public Distrust Over Political Motives

Immigration Officer Earns P500,000 Daily in Human Trafficking Operations at NAIA Arrested

FROM THE FRINGES: Tourism and Statistics

FIRING LINE: Power consumers catch a break