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….
By: Jane Bautista, Meg Adonis – Philippine Daily Inquirer / August 04, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Claire Ann Milan, 43, works as a hair stylist at a salon where she earns just enough to buy food and other daily needs for her household. Ronaldo Morales is a 49-year-old machinist at a car shop in Valenzuela…
By: Christia Marie Ramos – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /August 03, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Leila de Lima is seeking a Senate investigation into the government contracts awarded to the firms owned by family members of Senator Bong Go. In filing Senate Resolution No. 809, De Lima said the upper chamber should look into the circumstances…
By: Kurt Dela Peña – Content Researcher Writer/INQUIRER.net / August 03, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—”We were excellent.” This was how presidential spokesperson Harry Roque described the Duterte administration’s COVID-19 response last March, a year after the pandemic reached Philippine shores initially through two Chinese tourists from Wuhan, a Chinese city where SARS Cov2, the virus that…
The Statesman/Asia News Network / August 02, 2021 NEW DELHI — The third wave of Covid-19 lashing countries across the world is creating fertile breeding grounds for extra infectious and probably vaccine-resistant new variants, scientists warn. The World Health Organization has announced an 80 percent average increase over the past four weeks in five of…
by E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Philippines Studies Center, Washington DC, USA Less augury than symptom, the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic betokens a profound crisis of the neoliberal capitalist global order. Over four million people worldwide have died, 609 thousand in the U.S., 539 in Brazil, and 413 in India (as of July 15, 2021). Variants are…
Beverly L. Jenkins, June 29, 2020, InspireMore When we’re forced to make a split-second decision, our true colors are often on full display. Ivan Fernandez Anaya showed his character on a race track in Navarra, Spain, and in the process he wound up showing the world what true sportsmanship looks like! Ivan is a long-distance…
Aug 1, 2021, Rambo Talabong MANILA, Philippines (1st UPDATE) Three of the senators had earlier been banned by Duterte from entering the Philippines after they sponsored a US travel ban on Filipino officials linked to the detention of Senator Leila de Lima Democratic senators from the United States urged the Biden government to condemn the…