Developing Nuclear weapons is not the way to proceed on sea row-defense chief Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Saturday said developing the Philippines’ nuclear arsenal is not the way to enforce the victory it has over China in an international tribunal.
Philippine presses for non-tariff barriers at ASEAN meeting. Ph raised the need to review and eliminate trade-inhibiting non-tariff barriers (NTBs) at a recent meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) ministers, the trade department said. EU FTA talks take back seat to GSP + Audit TALKS for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the Philippines and the European Union (EU) have taken a back seat to monitoring of the country’s commitments under a preferential trade arrangement it bagged from the bloc in December 2014, according to a source from the European Commission (EC). Brexit will not affect PH The…
Philippines edges back into US Alliance as New friend China stirs anger Philippines is edging further back into a once strained alliance with the United States as China, a friend of three years, keeps challenging Manila’s maritime claims and offers less aid than many Filipinos had hoped. Canada’s garbage in the Philippines The country has filed several diplomatic protests with Canada over tonnes of refuse shipped to the Philippines between 2013 and 2014
DND, AFP renew calls for defense treaty review in Balikatan 2019 In front of the United States ambassador and hundreds of American troopers, the Philippines’ Department of National Defense (DND) renewed its call for the review of the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) between the long-allied countries. US and Philippine forces come together for the Opening Ceremony of Balikatan 2019 U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Y. Kim, Department of National Defense Undersecretary Cardozo M. Luna, and leadership from the U.S. armed forces, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and Australian Defence Force (ADF) participated in the opening ceremony yesterday…
Choice, Voice and Agency of Women Migrant Workers: Safe and Fair – Philippines Media Launch and Public Forum A media launch and public forum on Ending VAW and Discrimination, and Empowering Women OFWs: The Safe and Fair Program and Key Strategies of Philippine Stakeholders was held last 11 April 2019 at the Rigodon Ballroom of the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City. 2019 declared as ILO Centenary in the Philippines The Philippines declared 2019 as the ILO Centenary and reaffirmed its full support to, and cooperation with the ILO’s mandate of promoting peace and social justice.
International, Local groups cite Canada’s violations of Basel Convention for dumping trash in PH Environmental group EcoWaste Coalition said a new legal opinion said that Canada violated an international treaty with reference to the thousands of tons of garbage shipped to the Philippines in 2013 and 2014 and is continuing to act illegally now by not taking back the wastes A greener Philippines with Green Tax Green Tax also termed as ecotax, environmental tax, carbon tax and pollution tax is levied on consumers or industries that directly or indirectly inflict damage to the environment. Revenues collected through Green Tax are…
Jayvee Arbonida del Rosario (Student)
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What is to wake? As days blur by and memory fails, so too does the line between dream and reality fade. One is as ephemeral as the other. Perhaps, it is in this realm of warped time and lost futures, of muted joys and terrors, where things make more sense.
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Bagamat matagal at paulit-ulit na tayong naghihigpit at lumuluwag sa mga kwarantin na ipinapatupad sa ating bansa, iisa lang ang nababakas sa mga buhay ng mga Pilipino araw-araw, pagsulong at pagtataguyod sa pamilya sa kabila ng pagsubok na sinasagupa araw-araw.
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– Tanong ng Pilipinong lumalaban.
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The fury, the fire, the glory of endings and beginnings,
the bone melting pain of it all
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