Bangkok Post, 18 Oct 2020 A K-pop superstar, beauty queens and TV personalities are among a growing wave of celebrities backing Thailand’s pro-democracy movement, sending out messages of support to millions of followers on social media. Political statements are unusual from Thai celebs, whose lucrative endorsements rely on the billionaire clans that are a pillar…
Oct 18, 2020, Agence France-Presse BANGKOK, Thailand (UPDATED) Across the Chao Phraya river, nearly a thousand rallied in the western Wongwian Yai district chanting ‘Long live the people, down with dictatorship!’ Thousands of Thai pro-democracy protesters massed in multiple locations across Bangkok Saturday, October 17, defying an emergency decree banning gatherings for the third consecutive…
By: Katrina Hallare – Reporter, October 10, 2020, Philippine Daily InquiirerMANILA, Philippines — A Swiss national with Filipino blood was sworn in at the Vatican to join the Pontifical Swiss Guard, an elite military unit tasked to protect the pope. An article by CBCP News on Friday said 22-year-old Vincent Lüthi became one of the…
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 11) — Italian computer whiz Carlo Acutis is the first millennial proclaimed “Blessed”, after he was beatified by the Catholic Church Saturday in Assisi, Italy. The teenager, who devoted his life spreading the faith on the internet before dying of leukemia at the age of 15, was beatified in a…
Oct 7, 2020, Jodesz Gavilan Human rights group EcuVoice fears the government will use the programs indicated in the resolution as ‘smokescreen’ to conceal apathy and disregard toward victims while continuing to attack critics Local human rights groups on Wednesday, October 7, expressed “serious reservations” about a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution that…
Rappler.Com Oct 5, 2020, Camille Elemia MANILA, Philippines At least one fake information became the basis of an intelligence report which the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency submitted to the Senate in 2016 Since late 2018, the Philippines’ top intelligence official has been spreading fake and wrong information from pages taken down by Facebook. He justified…
PRESS RELEASE 29 September 2020 With the Duterte regime facing backlash after Facebook busted a fake news network of more than 100 social media accounts and pages linked to the police and the military, Filipino and foreign solidarity groups held a press conference on monday, 28 September 2020, to call for an end to harassments…
MANILA, Philippines The government says it will pay the central bank in full by the end of 2020 at no interest. The Monetary Board will discuss the matter. The Duterte government requested P540 billion from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), as the country takes on Southeast Asia’s worst coronavirus crisis with a massive revenue…