Pinoy-made Flash indie games preserved for posterity as browser support ends
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Filipino-made indie Flash games have been selected by the curators of BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint webgame preservation project as the end of life of Adobe Flash became effective end of 2020.
Khail Santia, one of the Filipino developers whose game was included in the preservation project, said the end of support for Flash felt “like the end of an era”.
“To us developers, Flash was more than just a piece of technology. It’s a medium of independent self-expression, a laboratory for innovation, a passion, a livelihood, and a community,” Santia said in an email.
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Declare terror law unconstitutional before it causes more harm, high court urged
By JONAS ALPASAN
MANILA – Petitioners against the Philippine terror law argued before the Supreme Court that the controversial law suffers from overbreadth and impermissible vagueness. During the oral arguments, they called on SC to declare the law unconstitutional even before it causes more harm than the evil it is supposed to fight.
“Your Honors, in the real world out there, who are the targets of this deprivation of rights? The law targets an ascertainable group of activists and perceived dissenters who have been the victims of red-tagging and terrorist tagging by the mere claim that they are “suspected persons,” lawyer and petitioner Neri Colmenares said in his opening statement.
Child car seat law implementation deferred
TRANSPORT agencies on Tuesday said they would postpone the “full” implementation of the child car seat law, which means penalties for non-compliance will not be imposed yet. “There will be no apprehensions yet. Penalties will not be imposed just year,” Transportation Assistant Secretary Goddes Hope O. Libiran said, in mixed Filipino and English, at a virtual briefing. Land Transportation Office (LTO) Assistant Secretary Edgar C. Galvante said they would have to focus first on the comprehensive information campaign about the Child Safety in Motor Vehicle Act or Republic Act No. 11229, which President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed on Feb. 22, 2019. The law, which was supposed to fully take effect on Tuesday after a year of transitory period, requires the use of child restraint systems for children who are 12 years old and below with a height of up to 4’ 11”. The decision to postpone the full implementation of the law was “in conside
PRC PARTNERS WITH SM SUPERMALLS FOR DRIVE-THRU SALIVA COLLECTING SITES
To make Saliva RT-PCR testing more accessible, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) partners with SM Supermalls (SCMC) as they open drive-thru saliva RT-PCR collection sites in SM megamall and SM Mall of Asia starting February 2, 2021.
A ceremonial signing of the memorandum of agreement was held the same day, attended by PRC Chairman and CEO Sen. Richard J. Gordon, PRC Secretary General Elizabeth Zavalla, SM Supermalls President Mr. Steven T. Tan, Senior Vice President for Operations Mr. Bien C. Mateo, and other executives from PRC and SCMC.
PRC will have its first two collection sites located in SM Megamall, Mega A bus bay at EDSA Mandaluyong, and at the 5 Ecom Open Parking in Mall of Asia, Pasay City. The said locations will only serve as specimen collection sites for the saliva RT-PCR test and these samples will be forwarded to the Red Cross laboratories for testing.
Former Vice President Jejomar Binay
A day after the termination of the accord between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND), a social media post appeared in the Facebook pages of several military units listing the names of UP graduates who have allegedly joined the New People’s Army (NPA), have been captured, or have died in encounters with government forces.
Oddly, the list included the names of established academics, lawyers, artists, journalists, former members of Congress, and senior government officials – among them a former chair of the government peace panel – who are very much alive. In separate statements, they denied the military’s claim that they had joined the NPA. They all expressed shock and concern. And they have good reason to be fearful. Of late, the release of “lists,” whether of alleged drug lords or communists, is usually followed either by arrests or killings.