In celebration of World Mental Health Day 2026, #MentalHealthPH, in partnership with Y-Space at Yuchengco Museum, will host a series of campaigns titled “You Are Home: Creating Safe Spaces for Every Story” on Oct. 9–10. Each campaign is designed to encourage participants to express themselves, connect with others, and encourage conversations of mental health at...
Presidential clemency ended the sentence Mary Jane Veloso was serving in the Philippines. It did not overturn the Indonesian drug conviction, and it did not end the separate prosecution of the people she says recruited and trafficked her. When Veloso happily held up a copy of her absolute pardon at the Correctional Institution for Women...
Two properties in the Davao Region valued at nearly P10 million and registered in the name of Vice President Sara Duterte’s husband, Manases Carpio, were not declared in her statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALNs), according to two registers of deeds. Kathy Baldonado, Davao City register of deeds, and Marco Pineda, acting register...
Davao City awarded 19 contracts worth ₱33.26 million to GenCorp Industries Inc., a food corporation listed by Vice President Sara Duterte as a business interest in her statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN), according to her brother and its mayor, Sebastian Duterte. But the mayor said he only became “familiar” with GenCorp when...
Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, owned 51 registered guns valued at ₱7.2 million, including fully automatic weapons that a House prosecution witness said were “capable of bursts of fire.” “When you pull the trigger, it fires continuously,” Police Maj. Joericson Sangalang, records chief of the Philippine National Police-Firearms and Explosives...
Convicting Vice President Sara Duterte will no longer require a fixed 16-vote threshold, as the Senate impeachment court ruled on Wednesday, Sept. 23, that the constitutional two-thirds majority applies only to senators eligible to participate. The ruling, which followed a 13-1 vote with six senators not participating, overturned the 16-vote threshold set by Senate impeachment...
GenCorp Industries Inc., a food corporation listed as a business interest in Vice President Sara Duterte’s statement of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN), secured 49 government contracts worth ₱35.9 million from 2022 to 2026, a House prosecution witness told the Senate impeachment court. Three government agencies, all based in the Davao region, awarded the...
Vice President Sara Duterte maintained her roles at a food corporation as a board director and member of the compensation committee when she assumed the second-highest post in the land in 2022, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official. Gerardo del Rosario, director of the SEC Company Registration and Monitoring Department, also said...
The Senate impeachment court can still change the current voting threshold of 16 senators to convict Vice President Sara Duterte, according to three former chief justices of the Supreme Court. Hilario Davide Jr., Artemio V. Panganiban, and Reynato S. Puno said the number of votes to remove an impeached official should not be fixed at...
Could omitting corporate acquisition costs in her statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) mean Vice President Sara Duterte’s net worth, which 2025 records showed was a whopping ₱98 million, is undervalued? Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian raised this question on Tuesday, Sept. 15, after House prosecutors presented Duterte’s SALNs from 2007 to 2025 at...
