May 19, 2021 Dwight de Leon MANILA, Philippines (1st UPDATE) The government’s anti-communist insurgency task force says concerned citizens first alerted them about a photo of Patricia Non with a raised fist In another attempt to question the background of Maginhawa Community Pantry’s Patricia Non, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict…
By: Frances Mangosing – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /May 18, 202 MANILA, Philippines—Retired military and police officers are urging the country’s leaders to unite and set aside differences on China’s continuing aggression in the West Philippine Sea. In a statement, Advocates for National Interest (ANI), chaired by retired general Edilberto Adan, said Philippine leaders should set aside…
Agence France-Presse/May 16, 2021 LONDON — Tens of thousands of protesters marched in support of Palestinians on Saturday in major European cities including London, Berlin, Madrid and Paris, as the worst violence in years raged between Israel and militants in Gaza. In London, several thousand protesters carrying placards reading “Stop Bombing Gaza” and chanting “Free…
By: Nestle Semilla – Reporter / Inquirer Visayas /May 14, 2021 CEBU CITY—The Central Visayas police has freed seven persons arrested last February on suspicion that they were recruiting lumad minors and training them as “child warriors” of communist rebel movement. The detainees, known as Bakwit School 7, were released around 6 p.m. on Friday…
Jonathan de Santos (Philstar.com) – May 13, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Anti-Terrorism Council has designated 19 supposed members of the communist party’s Central Committee as terrorists, a move that will allow the Anti-Money Laundering Council to look into and freeze assets believed to be used to fund terrorism. The lists of designated persons were…
By Erwin Colcol for Reportr , Esquire Philippines, May 6, 2021 Arm yourself before the campaign season. Nothing says election season in the Philippines like the trickle of opinion polls. Since the 1992 presidential vote, the first since the restoration of democracy six months prior, it has correctly gauged who is most likely to win. Critics…
In London, Filipino migrants marched from the Philippine embassy to Trafalgar Square to protest the government crackdown on critics as well as the administration’s failed response to the pandemic. The migrants also condemned racism in the UK and called for the protection for undocumented migrants. The group Filipino Domestic Workers Association, together with Europe chapters…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / May 07, 2021 National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose stirred up a massive hornet’s nest among the public and his fellow writers when, in his May 3, 2021 column in another daily, he baldly declared: “It may turn out that for all his vulgar language, Rodrigo Roa Duterte may…