Politics and Current Affairs

Month June 2021

‘Reality is he’s gone’: Noynoy Aquino mourned in sudden death

It was too soon, too sudden because just like that, PNoy is gone “We would have wanted so much more for our brother,” said Kris Aquino, the youngest and most famous of the Aquino legacy clan, 7:15 pm, Thursday, June… Continue Reading →

China vows support for Asean COVID-19 response by providing vaccines

MANILA, Philippines — China has vowed to continue supporting Asean countries, especially on the COVID-19 response as they assured to provide vaccines to member-states, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported.

PH vaccines: Adding more money to pay for hidden price tags

MANILA, Philippines—Almost three months into the country’s vaccination program, an additional P25 billion in appropriation is being sought from Congress by Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado to fund the Philippines’ coronavirus vaccine procurement.

EXPLAINER: A new department for OFWs, migrant Filipinos: What is it?

MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte took his support for legislation creating a new department for overseas Filipinos further by certifying it as urgent on Monday (May 31).

PNP: Quarantine checkpoints to stay

MANILA, Philippines — Regional and provincial checkpoints will remain to strictly monitor people crossing borders, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said yesterday as the government prepares for a possible easing of quarantine restrictions this week.

Indigenous leaders killed in Philippines were ‘red-tagged’ over dam opposition

Recent police raids on Indigenous villages that led to the death of nine community leaders followed opposition to ongoing construction of two controversial dam projects that Indigenous groups argue are destroying their ancestral domains.

Potential bets start advertising on Facebook as 2022 campaign shifts to social media

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and many local politicians are top ad spenders on Facebook a year before the polls. The Commission on Elections is drafting rules to govern online campaigning.

Here’s why and how the PNP burns marijuana that it confiscates

MANILA, Philippines — Under the Duterte administration, even cops have grown fond of blazing it. Literally, that is. 

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