Imelda Marcos’ conviction for several counts of graft by a Philippine court and sentencing her to imprisonment for multiple years, forfeiting her bail, and ordering the issuance – not the arrest – of a warrant of arrest, was so surreal.
A progressive labor group here blamed President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncement tagging their group as a communist front for the intensified attacks against workers and their unions in Compostella Valley province.
The Southern Philippines Medical Center announced on Monday an increase of their testing capacity for COVID-19 cases with the addition of two Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) machines and one automated extractor.
“The absence of mass testing, isolation, and contact tracing describes the Duterte administration’s lack of concrete plan. The idea of shifting to modified lockdown and passing the fate of millions of Filipinos to the private sector demonstrates how government is fighting the COVID-19 with blindfolds on.” The post ‘Government is fighting the COVID-19 with blindfolds…
Days after a veteran journalist was abducted and held incommunicado in Mindanao, the IFJ in an urgent motion also called on the Philippine government to take “concrete and credible steps and actions to resolve the killing of Filipino media workers and prevent further attacks.”
MANILA, Philippines With a historic gold, two silvers, and one bronze, the Philippines edges Indonesia for the distinction as the top performing Southeast Asian country in the Tokyo Olympics The Philippines wrapped up its Tokyo Olympics campaign as the top performing Southeast Asian nation following its biggest medal haul in the history of the Games….