LONDON, United Kingdom Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell will cut between 7,000 and 9,000 positions by the end of 2022 Sep 30, 2020, Agence France-Presse Royal Dutch Shell will axe up to 9,000 jobs or more than 10% of its global workforce, the energy giant said on Wednesday, September 30, as the coronavirus pandemic slams…
September 26, 2019 WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – On September 21, Malaya Movement DMV and BAYAN USA-DMV, together with several progressive FIlipino organizations, community members, and allies, held a vigil in front of the US Capitol to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the Philippines, paying a candle-lit tribute to…
Hotspots, Published September 25, 2020 by Tonyo Cruz Many have practically given up on the perceived stupidity in social media and even of fellow Filipinos. Sometimes I can’t blame them for thinking that way. But the latest announcement of Facebook against “coordinated inauthentic behavior” should be helpful in clarifying the real problem. Facebook says “coordinated…
Human rights “abuses” cited By: Cathrine Gonzales – Reporter / @cgonzalesINQ, INQUIRER.net /September 24, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — A bill seeking to suspend the United States’ provision of security assistance to the Philippines until the Philippine government has made “certain reforms to the military and police forces” has been introduced in the US Congress. The…
September 21, 2020, Rappler.com Two Filipino remittance firms have sent more than $1 billion in “suspicious” funds to shell companies, while some of the country’s biggest banks helped facilitate the transactions for years without knowing where the money came from, a report by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) revealed. Transactions made by Philrem…
By: Tina G. Santos – Reporter/ Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 21, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Several Catholic bishops on Sunday urged Filipinos not to forget the lessons of martial law, which was declared by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos 48 years ago, amid charges that the Marcoses are bent on revising history to erode its…
By: Patricia Denise M. Chiu – Reporter, Philippine Daily Inquirer / 04:45 AM September 19, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The European Parliament threatened to revoke the Philippines’ trading privileges with the European Union if it will not implement international conventions on human rights and urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to continue its inquiry into…
By Neil Jerome Morales and Karen Lema, Reuters, September 17, 2020 MANILA (Reuters) – A new Philippine telecoms firm with Chinese state investment on Thursday described as “truly misplaced” concerns that communications equipment it will install at military camps will be used for spying. The Philippine government last week allowed DITO Telecommunity Corp, a joint…