Author: Harry Roque

Again, my deepest gratitude to Mr. Fernandez and the rest of the team for allowing me to write for the Tribune.

In 2022, Japan was our third largest export trading partner, accounting for 14 percent of our total exports.

We must never allow our territory to become a launch pad for an offensive attack against another state.

In strict adherence to the complementarity principle, the ICC is not a court of first instance but a court of last resort.

The High Court ruling should only apply to De Lima’s case if the latter has been incarcerated for nine years in a normal cell for women and without any VIP treatment.

In my view, red-tagging is truth-telling in the context of our longstanding communist insurgency problem.

Given our current political climate, any attempt to overthrow the Marcos-Duterte administration would fizzle out right in the planning stage.

Since a ‘perfect’ government system is non-existent, there have been hiccups and bumps in the administration’s first five months

The bigger question is whether the importation would result in stable market pricing.

I have consistently urged communist insurgents to eschew the armed struggle in favor of the alternative parliamentary struggle.