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Orlando Mercado

Reporter · PH

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Sep 28, 2026
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Sep 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Orlando Mercado

    Mary Jane Veloso is free, but who fears the law? (opens the original)

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    MARY Jane Veloso is finally free. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s absolute pardon, granted just last week, allowed her to leave prison after nearly 16 years of incarceration. Her reunion with her family is an ending the public once feared she would never see. However, the case began with 2.6 kilograms of heroin found in her suitcase at an Indonesian airport. But the question remains: What happened to the people who arranged for that suitcase to travel with her — the ones who are the real perpet

  2. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Orlando Mercado

    When sanity goes on trial (opens the original)

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    IT can be exhausting, if not frustrating, to keep in lockstep with developments in the Middle East. Somewhat more uplifting is the tit-for-tat in the tariff war between the United States and Canada. Then there’s news of Alex Eala’s battles on the tennis court that gives me a natural high nowadays, something I’m definitely not alone in. But the former police reporter in me has also been following a different kind of American story: the saga of Lindsay Clancy and postpartum psychosis. On Jan. 24,

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