Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, April 13, said Malacañang should stop tolerating China’s “duplicitous strategy” and bullying by ditching its “special friendship” with Beijing in favor of protecting the country’s assets in the West Philippine Sea and it’s over-all sovereignty.
Published April 4, 2021, 12:18 AM
This year’s Easter observance is muted and subdued by the sobering realities brought on by COVID-19. An unprecedented surge has transformed the NCR+ bubble area from a hotspot into a cauldron of infection with more than 80 per cent of new cases. The trauma of the initial outbreak a year ago has hit home anew: painful isolation and confinement of the ailing and the dying; fast-tracked cremation and burial of those who have fallen.
Easter Sunday is the scheduled last day of the hard lockdown, yet few would venture a more optimistic outlook on the way forward.
The 56 million COVID-19 vaccine doses are expected to arrive in May through the COVAX facility. Meanwhile, Manny Villar's company negotiated with AstraZeneca
MANILA: Hundreds of local militants from Daesh-inspired groups in the southern Philippines are considering giving up their weapons to live everyday lives, even as the government continues to register gains in its anti-terror programs, Al Hajj Murad Ebrahim, chief minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), said on Friday.
“We are trying to open dialogue with them, convincing them to join us, the government,” Murad told reporters at the annual forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP).
Since its inception two years ago, the BARMM government has overseen the decommissioning of thousands of fighters from the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF).
Callamard: New US admin may still tone down stance on PH human rights
Jan 30, 2021 9:27 PM PHT
United Nations Special Rapporteur for summary executions Agnes Callamard said that even under a new president the US may still tone down its position on human rights problems in the Philippines to maintain its place in the global play for power. The US may be prepared to tone down its scrutiny over the human rights record of the country so as to keep the Philippines within its field of influence. While China – which has never really cared about the human rights record of any country – may in fact embolden the country s human rights violation for the same purpose which is to bring the Philippines within its field of influence, Callamard said at a virtual forum held by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) on Friday, January 29.