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Published January 30, 2021, 2:01 PM DAVAO CITY – The interim Bangsamoro Parliament on Friday, January 29, passed a resolution, declaring its full support to the pending House bills seeking to extend the term of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) until 2025. At present, four bills are pending in the House of Representatives to move the elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) from 2022 to either 2025 or 2028. In a statement on Saturday, Janu...

Think there is something there. and i would hope that is the outcome, because really, we need a process, we need the detail people to go there and have a consensus on that. >> hmm. ambassador yun, there is of course no low-hanging fruit in these negotiations, in the standoff wean the u.s. and north korea, but is there lower-hanging fruit? is there a more achievable goal that president trump and chairman kim can seek to establish here if theyre interested in showing some more concrete progress? i...

A lot about the chemistry between donald trump and. between him and president. you know obviously since that the. levees to what hes really close which are relationship you know south korea is the need to improve their relations normalised village would be did north korea otherwise you know theres with them to most the problems in south korea economic problems and also where the peoples minds there you know the internal internal conflicts within south korea so it allows us great people especiall...

Another rate hike coming down the pike in december? >> there is another rate hike coming, in fact, one more in december. three more next year, as well. the market was pretty much on board that that would be how the interest rate scenario would play out. the range is now 2% to 2.25%. the market had been set up for a fairley hawkish comment or statement from the fed. the removal of that accommodative the comment or language around how to describe monetary policy means were now moving toward neutra...

Particularly because were not putting human rights on the table. because you said this is a man whos accused of crime against humanity. united nations came out with a 400-page report talking about north korea. theres no parallel in contemporary history in terms of whats going on in terms of human rights violations. the only parallel theyre talking about is nazi germany. i think when the defectors are looking at this they dont know what to make of. i know there are many defectors in south korea a...

Perhaps, intensive cultural relations, family reunification issues, issues relating to hot lines that that normalization process is going to come out well in these meetings. but i want to see some of the meet on the nuclear issue. are they going to denuclearize? are we going to see a time line and verification and unfettered access by inspectors? are we going to see ways that the missiles are not pointed at our allies or to the united states? that they stop the development of new research and te...

President might offer normalization if relations in the u.s. embassy in pyongyang, are those good ideas, are those good places to start, and if you begin there, i it g to be almost impossible to maintain the sanctionsegime, the maximum pressure against north korea? >> chris, this meeting is cart before the horse. you can make the whole negotiation a cart before the horse. the normalization process the president refer today a process should really be following the gains that we are looking to mak...

President might offer normalization if relations in the u.s. embassy in pyongyang, are those good ideas, are those good places to start, and if you begin there, isnt it going to be almost impossible to maintain the sanctions regime, the maximum pressure against north korea? >> chris, this meeting is cart before the horse. you can make the whole negotiation a cart before the horse. the normalization process the president refer today a process should really be following the gains that we are looki...

Adversaries, if you will, both spy chiefs, when he was cia director and his first mission, secret mission to north korea to meet with kim yong-chol and kim jong-un that first -- beginning to discuss the summit, and then the second meeting, of course, was only two weeks ago. i think only two weeks ago when we were seeing the arrival, two or three weeks ago, the arrival in america. the three detainees when pompeo brought them back. so now pompeo has been really carrying the ball on this. the presi...

Mysterious symptoms involving hearing loss to begin with. there are other symptoms, too, that we have learned about, they were pinpointing this as happening late last year in their residences outside the embassy in havana. this supposedly affected six people, thats what they said last week but we have learned that actually it was more like 12-18 people, definitely in the double digits, our sources say, and also, that this occurred much earlier than we previously thought, months earlier, actually...