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TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images The Philippines is close to accepting loans from China that are 1,100% more expensive than ones from Japan. The country’s chief economist said it will accept the loan as it needs “more friends,” as relations between the two countries warm after years of territorial disputes in the South China Sea. The loan […]
Thomson Reuters Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte told security personnel not to participate in any probes against his bloody war on drugs. In 2016, the Philippines government formally invited the UN rights rapporteur Agnes Callamard to investigate Duterte’s controversial killings. Duterte back peddled in 2017, and said he would only cooperate if a probe was not led by Callamard. […]
The US envoy in Manila has been summoned in anger and the Phillipines’ embassy in the US told to give an “accurate picture” of their country to US intelligence, after a report flagged the Filipino leader as a threat to democracy. Last week, the US intelligence community, in their Worldwide Threat Assessment report, listed President […]
AT 8:30PM the tide turned for the Boomers. After an hour of play against the Philippines the Australians finally felt at “home” when the John Farnham classic “You’re the Voice” blasted through the speakers at Margaret Court Arena. Before the half-time sing-a-long the Aussies had been booed and jeered mercilessly by the Gilas Pilipinas’ boisterous […]
Thomson Reuters The US is cautiously optimistic about Philippine President rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs after seeing a decline in extrajudicial killings. The US has shifted away millions in dollars in support for law enforcement for the Philippines since the bloody anti-drug campaign started in 2016. Nearly 4,000 have been killed in shoot-outs with the […]
Paula Bronstein/Getty Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte dismissed human rights activists as “just a noisey bunch” in a conversation with Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose country is going through a crisis with 655,000 stateless Muslims fleeing to escape persecution. Human rights groups also strongly condem Duterte’s drug war which has killed a suspected 3,900. […]
The Mount Mayon volcano has begun spewing lava, ash and black fumes into the air just after Philippines authorities raised the alert to level 4, advising people to stay away from the eight kilometer danger zone. Mayon, the country’s most active volcano, began stirring last week, forcing some 40,000 residents in the central province of […]
The Philippines has raised the alert level for the Mount Mayon volcano to level 3, which is considered “critical.” The country’s volcanologists have warned a hazardous eruption is now possible “within weeks or even within days.” The volcano has been spewing ash into the atmosphere for the past two days and showed a bright crater […]
The Mayon volcano in the Philippines has spewed ash several times over the weekend, forcing authorities to evacuate two villages in its vicinity and raise the threat level, warning of potential “hazardous magmatic eruptions.” “The public is strongly advised to be vigilant and desist from entering the six kilometer (3.7 mile) radius Permanent Danger Zone […]
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