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Published May 7, 2021, 1:34 PM With barely a year left into the Duterte Administration, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. is demanding an explanation as to who ordered the Philippine Navy ship to withdraw from the Scarborough Shoal (Panatag Shoal) standoff with Chinese vessels in the summer of 2012. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (File photo via PNA) In a tweet on Friday, Locsin said he does not believe that the United States asked the Philippines to pull out its ship from the Scarborough Shoal and instead suggested that it was “purely a Filipino government decision...

SunStar (Photo from Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas) (Photo from Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas) (Photo from Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas) (Photo from Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas) + May 07, 2021 The newly upgraded airport will transform Calbayog City and Samar province as the new transportation hub in Eastern Visayas and will help boost the region’s economy, Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Secretary Michael Dino said during the inauguration of the airport. The Calbayog Airport und...

'End quiet diplomacy': Groups urge Canada to act vs abuse under Duterte May 6, 2021 4:10 PM PHT Human rights groups on Wednesday, May 5, urged the Canadian government to take necessary action against the "epidemic of rights violations" under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Speaking before a Canadian parliamentary hearing, Karapatan secretary-general Cristina Palabay emphasized that the Duterte government's anti-terrorism framework is damaging democracy in the country. "It is driving and enhancing state terror and framed in a way that quells political dissent and any of its perceived ene...

#CourageOn coalition to Duterte gov't: No excuse for abuse during pandemic May 6, 2021 7:30 AM PHT The coronavirus pandemic is not an excuse for the Duterte government to violate human rights of Filipinos, a coalition said on Wednesday, May 5. “#CourageON: No lockdown on rights” coalition, composed of human rights groups and organizations, condemned the widespread attacks and abuse seen in the Philippines amid a health crisis. " Hindi niyo maaaring alisin ang karapatan nating magtanong, mag-usisa, at humingi ng kasagutan sa mga nangyayari sa mga panahong ito," writer-director Bibeth Ort...

Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) went. They shared screenshots of these on the subreddit r/Philippines where the link in the messages directs them to a fan page of Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles. Yolanda is considered one of the world’s strongest cyclones in terms of wind speeds at landfall recorded in history with 190 mph winds. It made landfall on Nov. 8, 2013 and caused widespread destruction and deaths in the island of Leyte and nearby provinces. In a Reddit post on May 4, one user shared a side-by-side screenshot of a text message with a link and the Facebook page where the link lea...