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Pol Spectrum | The Office of the Vice President (OVP) under Sara Duterte received the highest audit rating from the Commission on Audit (COA) for the third consecutive year, with state auditors issuing an unmodified opinion on its 2024 financial statements. Read more:…

Pol Spectrum | Article IX-B, Section 2(1) of the 1987 Philippine Constitution provides that "All public school teachers are part of the 'career service' under the Civil Service Commission (CSC)". Read more: thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/a…

Pol Spectrum | Sen. Jinggoy Estrada expressed his intention to scrap the Senior High School program from the Philippine education system, saying that the program failed its goals. Read more: thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/a…

Prime Insight | June 19, 2025, marks the 100th day that Former President Duterte has been illegally detained through state kidnapping at the International Criminal Court (ICC) detention center. Duterte (80 years old) has formally requested interim release from ICC detention on…

Prime Insight | Long before European maps drew sharp lines across the oceans, the ancestors of modern Filipinos sailed across an interconnected maritime world. As part of the vast Austronesian expansion, they traded, migrated, intermarried, and interacted with Southeast Asian…

Pol Spectrum | Two weeks after the Senate remanded the articles of impeachment filed against Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives, Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero said that "The impeachment court can do whatever it wants to do, based on the voting.…

Prime Insight | A 20% percent withholding tax on interest earned from savings as part of the recent implementation of Republic Act No. 12214, also known as the "Ease of Paying Taxes Act," marks a significant shift in the country’s tax policy. Read more: thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/a…

Tuway Travels | The state of Israel is now the new hegemon in West Asia, replacing the United States. It dictates the rules of war and peace. The once powerful Syria, ruled by Bashar Al-Assad, and Lebanon under Hezbollah are vilified and humiliated in the international community…

Pol Spectrum | The Trump administration is considering expanding President Trump’s new travel ban to as many as 36 additional countries, most of which are in Africa. Read more: thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/a…

Tuway Travels | In his lecture on the “Historical Logic and Current Landscape of the Belt and Road Initiative, Professor Huang Maoxing, Vice President of Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, narrated the historical timeline of China’s interaction with the world from the ancient…

Tuway Travels | The Republic Act No. 11054, otherwise known as Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), mandates institutional strengthening and good governance in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Read more: thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/a…

Prime Insight | As the global order shifts from unipolarity to multipolarity, a quiet but profound transformation is unfolding across Asia. Asian countries are increasingly aligning with BRICS, not out of pro-China or anti-Western sentiment, but rather as a nuanced and strategic…

Pol Spectrum | The Constitution establishes a system of separation of powers to prevent the concentration of power in any one branch of government. This principle aims to create a balance, ensuring that each branch has the authority to check and balance the actions of the others.…

Tuway Travels | In his masterpiece, “Globalization's Challenge to the Islamic Ummah”, Riaz Hassan argued that the ‘Ummah became a transformative concept as it changed the identities of Arab tribes to Muslim (believers of Islam) – then, different groups of Muslims were transformed…

Prime Insight | As the 17th BRICS Summit convenes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6–7, 2025, the evolving composition and growing appeal of the bloc underscore a significant shift in the global geopolitical and economic order. The recent inclusion of Vietnam as a BRICS partner…

Pol Spectrum | Numbers really don't lie on the part of Vice President Sara Duterte, as the latest Tangere non-commissioned survey shows that VP Sara is the early front-runner for the 2028 presidential race. Read more: thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/a…

Tuway Travels | In my book, “Islam, the West and the World: The Shifting Sands of Global Politics from Prophetic Era to Post-American World,” I laid down the signs that the existing multipolar world order effectively began in 2017 when the unipolar architecture collapsed. Read…

Pragmatic Approach | Three years into his presidency, popular support for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (PBBM) fell precipitously halfway through his term. According to the PAHAYAG Survey, his trust rating decreased from 58% to 14%, and his approval rating decreased from 62%…

Pol Spectrum | Hours after US President Donald Trump's announcement that Iran and Israel had agreed on a "complete and total ceasefire" after the so-called 12-Day War, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi released a statement that it had not come to a “final decision” on a…

Tuway Travels | As we close the Zul Hajji (Hijri month of Pilgrimage) month, another Muharam (new year) is coming in the Islamic world with Gazans still suffering from the Genocide. Read more: thelobbyist.biz/perspectives/a…