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If Manny Pacquiao Is Our Jar Jar Binks, What Should Happen To Him Next?

Yesterday was a whole new level of dangerous politicking, however. Pacquiao set the motion for a major Senate realignment: Liberal Party senators Frank Drilon, Kiko Pangilinan, Bam Aquino, and Risa Hontiveros are no longer Senate President Pro Tempore, chair of the Senate committee on agriculture, chair of the committee on education, and chair of the committee on health, respectively. Granted, the new alignment isn’t so bad yet, but it’s the blatant grab of power from just one specific party which makes it worse, and easier for the majority to concentrate their power.

February 28, 2017

Duterte Holding Things Is Your New Favorite Tumblr

Twitter citizen @marocharim noticed someone—he can’t remember who—wondering on the social media platform: what if Duterte is just holding an invisible handbag? After a few minutes of photo manipulation, Rodrigo Duterte Holding Things Was Born.

December 1, 2016

The 5 Scoutmag.ph Stories You Should Read From This Week (10/15/16)

If you weren’t all up on our social media accounts (which you should, @scoutmagph on IG, Twitter, and Snapchat) you missed out on our best stories this week. Here they

October 15, 2016

The Last 100 Days

By Leiron Martija It has been 100 days since Rodrigo Duterte took power. It has been 100 days of death and decay. In the span of such a short time, our country

October 10, 2016

The Five Scoutmag.ph Stories You Should Read From This Week (7/23/16)

What’s good? Didn’t catch all the good stuff that was on the site this week? Don’t worry, we’ve rounded all of what you really need to read up for you here. BONUS: Yassi Pressman

July 23, 2016

Duterte Offers Robredo A Cabinet Position In The Middle Of A Presscon

This might be the most awesome politics-related thing you’ll see this week, just in case you missed it: President Duterte finally gives in and offers Vice President Robredo a spot

July 8, 2016

Duterte Meets And Asks Robredo For Help, Ship Officially Sets Sail

After everything that’s been said and done (mostly by President Duterte to his vice president), it turns out P-Diggity does, in fact, need her help running the country after all.

July 6, 2016

A badass, pro-poor President

(READ: My god, I hate Duterte) While in Manila last November, I found myself conversing with a taxi driver who was disappointed hearing that Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte

July 1, 2016

The Duterte Inauguration Might Be Streaming On Facebook Live

So because President-elect Rody Duterte is still all-in on his war against traditional media outlets, his team is looking to Facebook to stream the event using Facebook Live. This much was

June 22, 2016

What the planets say about the first year of Duterte’s term

REGARDLESS of a new President, the Philippine economy will flourish, further reaping the fruits of the past six years. This will be obvious in service-oriented industries dealing with foreign countries such as overseas Filipino workers, business process outsourcing and the foreign investments.

June 12, 2016