Reuters/March 07, 2021 BEIRUT — There is almost nothing Raquel Barrion doesn’t know about the two Lebanese children she has looked after since they were babies. But one day, the Filipina domestic worker decided to find out how much they knew about her. Barrion, 39, was pleasantly surprised when – by means of a light-hearted…
Mar 7, 2021 Rappler.com MANILA, Philippines (3rd UPDATE) Human Rights Watch says the operations ‘appear to be part of a coordinated plan by the authorities to raid, arrest, and even kill activists in their homes and offices’ Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced the crackdown on activists in the Calabarzon region, where 9 were killed and…
By: Daphne Galvez – Reporter /INQUIRER.net / March 03, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A bill at the House of Representatives seeking to allow the presumption of guilt of drug suspects is an “alarming knee-jerk reaction” to the shootout between the police and drug enforcement agents, Amnesty International (AI) said in a statement issued on Wednesday….
EDITORIAL Philippine Daily Inquirer / March 03, 2021 Can it be that the administration is now seeing the horror of President Duterte’s war on drugs? The video message of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Feb. 24 to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) suggested as much, appearing to prove that the Philippines’ legal and…
By: Christia Marie Ramos – Reporter / INQUIRER.net / March 01, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has called the attention of the United States Department of State as well as several American senators on the rise of anti-Asian attacks there. Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Romualdez said he sent a note verbale to…
Mar 1, 2021, Sofia Tomacruz MANILA, Philippines (3rd UPDATE) Dr. Gerardo Legaspi, director of the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, is the first to get the vaccine Editor’s Note: The nurse who administered the first shot to Dr Gerardo Legaspi is Charleuck Santos, not Sherlock Cruz. Cruz was the name provided by the Philippine…
By Mario Alvaro Limos Anita Magsaysay-Ho became the first woman to ever win the grand prize in the prestigious Art Association of the Philippines competition in 1952. According to curator and historian Lisa Guerrero Nakpil, her winning entry, “The Cooks,” quickly set off a publicized contest to own it as both influential newspaper columnists and rich…
By: Daphne Galvez – Reporter/INQUIRER.net / February 28, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines received its first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines on Sunday, with the arrival of 600,000 doses of the vaccine made by China-based drugmaker Sinovac Biotech. The military aircraft from China carrying the Sinovac vaccine doses donated by the government of China touched…