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Breaking: Canadian shot dead at EDSA traffic

Canadian trader shot dead in Pasay Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:07 AM March 08, 2017 Police investigators are looking at a love triangle as a possible motive in the shooting of a Canadian national in Pasay City on Monday night. Nanthakumaran Kumarasamy, 55, a businessman, was shot while his vehicle was stuck in traffic on […]

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DE LIMA MARKS 3RD YEAR OF UNJUST DETENTION; DECRIES CONTINUED POLITICAL PERSECUTION AGAINST HER

Mortal enemies: De Lima vs. Duterte (Photo composite by Asia News Network) Press Release: February 24, 2020 Opposition Senator Leila M. de Lima today (Feb. 24) marks her third year of illegal arrest and unjust detention – a grim reminder that the Duterte regime is intolerable of dissent and perceives political opposition as a threat

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Breaking: Duterte cancels Canadian helicopter order

GROWING FLEET – Eight brand new Canadian Bell-412eP combat utility helicopters and two Italian AW-109E attack choppers were unveiled by the Philippine Air Force (PAF)in 2016 with Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin christening with champagne one of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) newest acquisitions at the Villamor Air Base grandstand in Pasay City. (John

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Study: Filipinos are most ignorant in world

Rappler: Newsbreak Why worry about Filipinos online being ‘most ignorant’? Posted: 08 Feb 2018 02:11 AM PST MANILA, Philippines – Suicide rates. Number of teenage births. Smartphone owners in the Philippines. Even belief in Heaven, Hell, and God. These were only some of the things Filipinos online were wrong about, according to Ipsos’ Perils of

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Helicopters: Is Canada helping to kill Filipinos?

President Rodrigo Duterte CANADA Government to review sale of military hardware  Just one day after signing a $233 million agreement to sell 16 helicopters to the Philippines, the Canadian government on Wednesday (February 7)ordered a review of the deal amid concerns the aircraft could be used to fight rebels, Reuters reported. Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne

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Photography: Pinay maid sa Hongkong nanalo

Joan Pabona’s black-and-white photo, ‘Sacrifice,’ shows a worker in a helmet standing among safety nets used for bamboo scaffolding. National Geographic HK photo contest runner-up A  domestic worker from the Philippines has taken the first runner-up prize in a photo contest held by National Geographic, the Asia Times reported. Joan Pabona, a 35-year-old Filipina domestic

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IRB cites climate of impunity in allowing refugee claim

Lowell Menorca with wife in a Facebook profile image. Vancouver, B.C. Iglesia ni Cristo  fugitive wins case By Ted Alcuitas The Canadian Immigration and  Refugee Board has granted INC minister Lowell Menorca refugee status citing the current climate of impunity and extrajudicial killings among the reasons in approving the claim. “When the panel considers the

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‘Revolutionary’ activist Pet Cleto dies at 72

Pet Cleto, right, with another womens activist Bernadette Ellorin, chair of USA Bayan.   Toronto,Ontario Life-long devotion to womens issues By Ted Alcuitas She was called a revolutionary woman, defender of human rights and a journalist, but to the mostly young women who followed her, she was plain ‘Tita Pet’ and to those on the

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Breaking:Duterte silences Rappler

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. (ABS/CBN) Philippines In a move reminiscent of Ferdinand Marcos’ muzzling of the press, President Rodrigo Duterte, through  the Securities and Echange Commission (SEC) today revoked the registration of Rappler, a fierce critic. The move happened just as the movie The Post was released to international audiences. The movie is about The

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Cebu’s Msgr. Camomot’s remains moved to museum

Relics. Devotees and the sisters of the Daughters of Saint Therese facilitate the installation of the wax image containing the remains of the late Archbishop Teofilo Camomot at the Domus Teofilo in Barangay Valladolid, Carcar City. (SunStar Photo/Alex Badayos) Cebu, Philippines SunStar Cebu January 04, 2018 Camomot’s relics moved to museum THE 10-hour exhumation of

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