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In today's episode, Christian Esguerra takes a look back at the 2012 Scarborough shoal standoff, which is often mentioned by President Rodrigo Duterte in his criticism against critics of his administration's handling on the problem in the West Philippine Sea. That standoff saw the withdrawal of Philippine vessels, but China remained. He speaks with a former ambassador of the Philippines in Washing...

Here are the news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In today's episode, Christian Esguerra talks about the implications of President Rodrigo Duterte's statements criticizing the Philippines' aribtral victory over China in 2016. He described the Hague ruling as just a piece of paper that can be thrown in the waste basket. Duterte also challenged to a debate Former Supreme Court Senior Associate Antonio Carpio who promptly accepted his challenge. Wha...

Here's a quick round up of the news you need to know.

Here are the news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In today's episode, Christian Esguerra discusses the weaknesses in the Philippine health regulatory framework in light of the distribution of an unauthorized anti-parasitic drug as treatment against COVID-19, or even for prophylaxis. This, also in light of President Rodrigo Duterte's inoculation with a China-made vaccine yet to receive an emergency use authorization from the Philippine Food and Dr...

Here's a quick round up of the news you need to know.

Here are the news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In today's episode, Christian Esguerra speaks with veteran journalists as today marks the first year since ABS-CBN was shut down as promised by President Rodrigo Duterte by the National Telecommunications Commission. Afterwards, the House Committee refused to give ABS-CBN a new broadcast franchise upon the instigation of President Duterte. This move led to thousands of employees to lose jobs. How...

Here are the news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In today's episode, Christian Esguerra talks about the statement, the strongest to date even by his own standards, coming from Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. toward China. He told Beijing to "get the f out" of the West Philippine Sea. But a few hours after that, President Rodrigo Duterte seemed to have walked back on that strong statement coming from his own foreign secretary and...

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Here are the news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In today's episode, Christian Esguerra speaks with the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines this World Press Freedom Day about its initiative to help out fellow journalists in need during the pandemic. Journalists are facing two basic problems during the pandemic lockdowns-- 1 is economic like the rest of the Philippines and the world, and 2 is the struggle for press freedom that began...

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Listen to news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe.

Here are the news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In today's episode, Christian Esguerra talks about the truth on the claim that Lapu-Lapu, widely considered as the first hero of the Philippines, was actually from Sulu in Mindanao, not Cebu. This claim was even made more prominent in a recent speech by Senator Bong Go on the 500th anniversary of the battle of Mactan. He talks with a Cebuano historian to try to correct all the erroneous claims abo...

Listen to news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe.

Here are the news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here's a quick round up of the news you need to know

Listen to news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe.

Here are the news making the headlines in the Philippines and across the globe on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In today's episode, Christian Esguerra talks about the Ombudsman's dismissal of a complaint against members of the Manila Police who kept prisoners in squalid conditions. This was discovered in 2017. They were kept in a very small space hidden behind a bookshelf. What many thought was an open and shut case turned out to have more complications, at least as far as the ombudsman was concerned.

Tony Velasquez and Karen Davila deliver the top stories of the day in ANC's flagship newscast The World Tonight.