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CNN PH ‘strongly objects’ to its being red-tagged by PCOO Usec Badoy
By: Consuelo Marquez – Reporter /INQUIRER.net / 12:53 AM November 15, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — CNN Philippines “strongly objects to the misplaced and baseless allusion” of Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) to its alleged links to organizations that are “known fronts” of the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New…
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‘Worse than Ondoy’
In a year of one landmark crisis after another, typhoon season in the Philippines in 2020 bids fair to be as hard and unprecedented. Seven weather disturbances have affected the country in only a month, three of which developed into severe storms with catastrophic results on the population. “Ulysses,” the latest monster storm, killed at…
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Cagayan reeling from worst flooding, says governor; online cries for help surge
By: Kimberlie Quitasol, Villamor Visaya Jr., Yolanda Sotelo – @inquirerdotnet Inquirer Northern Luzon /November 14, 2020 CAGAYAN – Governor Manuel Mamba on Saturday described the massive flooding that inundated large parts of the province province and nearby areas as the “worst in memory.” In a radio interview, Mamba said Cagayan was “blindsided” by the floods…
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(Opinion) Absentee leadership in times of crisis
Nov 14, 2020, John Molo A day after Typhoon Ulysses battered the country, the nation reacted with surprise at what was happening in Cagayan Valley. Cagayanons were desperately flooding social media with cries for help as the evening of Friday, November 13 came. Online reports cited water coming from dams that were bursting. A harrowing…
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Farcical witness
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / November 07, 2020 Where do they find these people? Not for the first time under this administration, another dubious character has stepped up to the public stage to testify against a perceived enemy or enemies of the state. This time around, that dubious character is one Jeffrey “Ka Eric” Celiz,…
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Citizen Trump will face legal woes
Reuters / November 08, 2020 WASHINGTON — Since taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump has been besieged by civil lawsuits and criminal investigations of his inner circle. With Democrat Joe Biden capturing the presidency on Saturday, according to all major U.S. television networks, Trump’s legal woes are likely to deepen because in January…
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Joe Biden elected 46th US president
Reuters / November 08, 2020 WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden captured the US presidency on Saturday, several major television networks said, as voters narrowly rebuffed Republican incumbent Donald Trump’s tumultuous leadership and embraced Biden’s promise to fight the coronavirus pandemic and fix the economy in a divided nation. When the former vice president enters the…
