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FIRING LINE: Black plastics and CKD By Robert B. Roque Jr. | June 30, 2026 As health tips grow ever more visible in my social media feeds, I’m certain many of my age experience the same shock and insecurity about chronic kidney disease and food safety risks we never thought twice about. The deeper you…

FIRING LINE: The only right Beijing has By Robert B. Roque Jr. | June 25, 2026 China has banned our Defense Secretary, the well-versed Gilberto Teodoro, from setting foot on its mainland. Nothing really surprising there. Beijing’s sanctions on the tough and truth-telling Gibo extend to barring his wife and child from entering mainland China,…

FIRING LINE: Classrooms of fear By Robert B. Roque Jr. | June 23, 2026 I can’t stop thinking about it: two incidents, three days apart, both in Cavite. On June 16, a 14-year-old Grade 8 student walked into a Grade 5 classroom in General Trias — teachers were away at a meeting — and stabbed seven…

FIRING LINE: Distraction and shifting alliances By Robert B. Roque Jr. | June 18, 2026 The events of last Tuesday at an event venue on EDSA in Mandaluyong were an absolute circus — shameful! What exactly was Mike Defensor doing? Acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian killed that stunt with a simple statement saying Defensor is…