This is a depressing editorial for us to write and publish, following our editorial the other day, which welcomed the World Bank prognosis that the Philippines will continue to be the fastest-growing economy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

But this must be done. We have a responsibility as a news organization to report both the good and the bad.

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