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Robert Siy, a transport economist, said that "redundancy" in public transport, which in this case means having both the EDSA busway and the MRT-3, is good and benefits passengers, especially with "occasional breakdowns of the MRT-3."
Read more: data-dict.com/busway/
NEW: Since 2021, the EDSA busway has become an integral part of public transportation in Metro Manila where horrendous traffic is a daily struggle.
Here's how the project changed commuting in the Metro.
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Since 1988, Congress has enacted laws that moved barangay & SK election dates at least seven times.
Those postponements, in turn, resulted in local officials holding their posts for as much as 42 months (3.5 years) longer than their original term.
More: data-dict.com/bsk-elections/
ALT A chart showing the terms of office of barangay officials in the Philippines since 1995 and the extensions of those terms due to election delays.
The impeachment is a numbers game.
These are the numbers that you need to know that may determine the outcome of Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial.
See the thread.
Not only have legislators moved elections, they have also revised the terms of office of barangay and SK officials numerous times.
Hence, in practice, terms are hardly ever fixed.
Read more: data-dict.com/bsk-elections/
ALT A lollipop chart showing the years when terms of office of barangay and SK officials in the Philippines had been revised, including a proposal in 2026 to bring it to five years from the current four.
NEW: Congress has a penchant for postponing barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, while also supposedly "fixing" the terms of office of barangay officials.
Data show the irony however. Nothing is really fixed.
data-dict.com/bsk-elections/
Not all inmates are like former House Speaker Ferdinand Romualdez, who is in hospital detention.
In a 2026 peer-reviewed study, it was found that 12% of inmates in a Philippine jail are hypertensive, while 3% have diabetes. A smaller number also have both and remain jailed.
ALT A bar chart showing the share of inmates in a Philippine jail who reported having an existing disease.
Flood control projects didn't prevent flooding during monsoon rains. See more on our latest story. Link in our page. #floodcontrol #FloodControlProject #Habagat
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NEW: We mapped the flooding due to monsoon rains last week in Luzon. We found that some of those flooded areas were locations where flood control projects were supposedly completed from 2022 to 2025.
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MAPS SHOW HEAVY FLOODING IN LUZON DUE TO HABAGAT RAINS
Data from the Philippine Science Agency showed the flooding caused by monsoon rains in select regions in Luzon.
A spate of school violence involving students stabbing or shooting people over the past three months has fanned alarm in the Philippines.
ALT A locator map of shooting and stabbing incidents in schools in the Philippines from June to August 2026.
Malacanang suspended face-to-face classes on Aug. 18 in select areas due to monsoon rains.
Last year, over half of preschool to senior high school students did not go to school when Malacanang canceled classes, mostly in Luzon, during rains in July.
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Monsoon rains and typhoons have commonly disrupted classes in the Philippines. From Jan. to Sept. last year, our analysis showed rains caused 29 days of class suspensions to college level, affecting over 458,000 students.
Read: data-dict.com/class-suspensi…
Classes have been suspended in recent days because of monsoon rains.
It follows a trend. From June to Sept. 2025, the first few months of the current school year, over 20% of in-person classes were called off.
Read more in our earlier analysis:
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NEW: The State of the Nation Address (SONA) traditionally has a positive tone, but not always. Public sentiment to the president appears to influence it.
#SONA2026
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NEW: The Philippines is now an upper middle income economy, hailed as a signal to foreign investors to bet on the country.
However, data show our new income classification is likely to be more a determinant of aid, not foreign investments.
More: data-dict.com/upper-middle-i…
8 in 10 (80%) House members voted to impeach Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, the highest share of lawmakers in recent record of impeaching a public official.
The Constitution requires a share of 1 in 3 (33%), a goal that has been easily met in previous impeachments.
ALT A summary of past and current impeachments and how they progressed in Philippine Congress.
Government debt is again on national agenda these days.
Here's our earlier explainer on how to read government debt data and why increasing liabilities in peso terms is not necessarily bad per se (barring other things, of course).
From July 2025
prinzmagtulis.com/ph-debt/
As the House of Representatives prepares to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte (again), here's a look at past impeachment experiences of the Philippines from an earlier piece. 🧵
ALT A set of photos of Philippine officials who got impeached: Chief Justice Renato Corona, President Joseph Estrada, Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, and Comelec chair Andres Bautista.