CHECKPOINT. Leaders and Makabayan representatives talk to SWAT members after they were blocked on their way to investigate the situation of communities affected by aerial strikes and military operations in Mt. Banoi, Batangas. Photo by STEX Humanitarian missions in Batangas attempt to probe ‘Marawi-style’ military operations MEMBERS of Pilgrims for Peace-Southern Tagalog along with party-list…
By: Neil Arwin Mercado – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /March 11, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — More than 383,000 overseas Filipinos have been repatriated back to the Philippines since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported Thursday. During the online hearing of the House committee on overseas workers affairs, the…
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Human rights watchdog Karapatan raised alarm that jailing quarantine violators and shaming individuals infected with COVID-19 “would only worsen the impact of the pandemic even further” as the group assailed President Rodrigo Duterte’s orders for the Philippine National Police (PNP) to arrest individuals who violate quarantine protocols to “give [them] a lesson for all time”…
Feb 3, 2021, Reuters Yangon, Myanmar (UPDATED) ‘We refuse to obey any order from the illegitimate military regime who demonstrated they do not have any regards for our poor patients,’ says the protest group Staff at 70 hospitals and medical departments in 30 towns across Myanmar stopped work on Wednesday, February 3, to protest against…
Davao City Vice Mayor Sebastian Duterte said he will not attend his father’s 4th State of the Nation Address (SONA) this Monday.