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| 17.09.2026 | OpenAI Framework Reveals GPT-5.6 Sol Wrote Instructions to Hide Its Own Mistakes | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Sep 17 2026, 7:39 AM EDT
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| 18.08.2026 | White House Releases Research Security Strategy: Visa Cap Bars STEM Doctoral Students | By Terrence Hill
Published: Aug 18 2026, 8:43 AM EDT
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| 24.07.2026 | China Hits Philippine Fishers With Water Cannons Three Times in Five Days at Scarborough Shoal | By Collin Mercer
Published: Jul 24 2026, 11:01 AM EDT
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| 22.07.2026 | Brent Crude Tops $94 as Iran Talks Collapse and Saudi Arabia Loses Its Hormuz Workaround | By Luke McKenzie
Published: Jul 22 2026, 5:20 PM EDT
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| 21.07.2026 | EU Parliament Launches AI Hub While Lawmakers Owe No AI-Drafting Disclosure | By Earl Bensen
Published: Jul 21 2026, 4:07 PM EDT
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| 15.07.2026 | Josie Exits PAR Weakened to LPA, but Habagat Keeps Gale Gusts Over Northern Luzon | By Keith Benitez
Published: Jul 15 2026, 2:55 PM EDT
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| 15.05.2026 | OpenAI Jury To Begin Deliberations Monday as Judge Weighs Altman Removal and $500B Restructure Reversal | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: May 15 2026, 05:52 AM EDT
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| 22.10.2025 | Banking Reform: Why Deposit Protection Ordinance Misses the Point | In October 2025, Bangladesh's interim government announced the Deposit Protection Ordinance, and one should acknowledge what the ordinance gets right before examining what it misses.
The technical improvements are meaningful. Doubling cover... |
| 19.09.2025 | Late-night shows address Jimmy Kimmel suspension with humor and solidarity | By AUDREY McAVOY and HALLIE GOLDEN, Associated Press
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon opened their late-night shows Thursday using a mix of humor and solidarity with suspended ABC host Jimmy Kimmel.
Stewart opted for satire to ... |
| 03.07.2025 | Sequent's Secure Online Voting System Quietly Made History During This Year's Philippine National Elections | Created by Carl Williams
Updated: Jul 03 2025, 02:02 AM EDT
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| 01.12.2024 | Commentary: Philippines politics is often mad. It just got crazier | TOKYO: Political violence is nothing new in the Philippines. It was, after all, the site of the world’s worst massacre of media workers when 58 people, including 32 journalists, were murdered in 2009 while traveling in an election convoy on... |
| 22.09.2024 | Voices in the Shadows: The Fight for Environmental Justice | In the battle for environmental justice, the stakes are alarmingly high. In 2023, nearly 200 activists lost their lives defending the planet. These defenders, often Black or Indigenous, are the unsung heroes of our time. They stand at the f... |
| 20.09.2024 | Vietnam’s MFast targets Philippines’ unbanked with $15m raise | Premium Content
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| 18.09.2024 | In 2023, Almost 200 Climate Activists and Defenders Died Protecting the Planet | 5 Mins Read Last year, 196 people were killed trying to protect the environment. Most of them were Black or Indigenous.
By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Jonila Castro is an activist working with AKAP Ka Manila Bay, a group helping displaced communiti... |
| 09.08.2024 | Philippine Nobel laureate Ressa's Rappler website wins appeal to overturn shutdown order | MANILA: Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa's news website Rappler won an appeal to restore its corporate licence after a court overturned a regulator's decision to shutter the media company.
The Court of Appeals, in a Jul 23 decision mad... |
| 03.07.2024 | Can a Rule of Law-Based International Order be More than Just Rhetoric? | The merits of the international order based on rule-of-law extend to more than just the US. Middle powers have a role to play, and can influence great powers when collective pressure can be brought to bear.
With Eastern Europe experiencing ... |
| 20.06.2024 | CNA's reporting of Southeast Asia's oldest civilisation wins SOPA award | Listen to this article
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| 10.06.2024 | Четвертый «скок» Илона Маска | Четвертый запуск «Старшипа»: в контексте геополитики и глобальной экономики. Что произошло на самом деле и какие последствия несет «старшиповый шок» для цивилизации в течение ближайших лет и на более отдаленную перспективу?
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| 24.05.2024 | MIF24: How AI can redefine tasks in the newsroom | Leaders in the journalism industry shared insights on the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence in journalism during the 2024 Media Innovation Festival
IPI's Innovation Team
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Panel "AI's impact on journalism: Evalua... |
| 22.04.2024 | TikTok Vows Legal Battle Against Potential US Ban | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 22 April 2024, 10:04 am
Popular social media platform TikTok intends to fight any ban or forced sale of its US business in court after the House of Representatives passed legislation over the weekend.
TikTok's future ... |
| 18.04.2024 | Calming the Long War in the Philippine Countryside | What’s new? The Philippine Maoists, one of Asia’s longest-running communist insurgencies, are on the defensive, with Manila pushing for definitive victory through counter-insurgent operations and development initiatives. Fighting has fallen... |
| 25.03.2024 | Philippines to move ahead with Binance ban | CryptoNews
Miguel Cordon · 25 Mar 2024 · 2 min readPhilippines to move ahead with Binance ban
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines is set to move forward with the blo... |
| 22.03.2024 | CDT Joins Letter Urging Meta to Maintain CrowdTangle, Election Integrity Efforts in Advance of Historic Year of Elections | The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) joined a coalition letter of over 90 civil society organizations and experts in response to Meta’s March 14, 2024 news that it would abandon CrowdTangle, the tool used by tens of thousands of ... |
| 05.01.2024 | Salarium halts operations amid salary disbursement trouble (Updated) | FintechNews
Samreen Ahmad · 9 Jan 2024 · 2 min readSalarium halts operations amid salary disbursement trouble (Updated)
Salarium founder Judah Z Hirsch / Photo credit: Salarium
Salarium, a Philippines-based payroll automation startup, has s... |
| 29.11.2023 | Binance’s top Philippine exec exits the firm | CryptoNews
Lokesh Choudhary · 29 Nov 2023 · 2 min readBinance’s top Philippine exec exits the firm
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Correction (November 29, 9:15 pm): This article was updated to state that Kenneth Stern left in July, not in Novem... |
| 18.10.2023 | Wearables Are On The Rebound. Will Safety Devices Usher In A New Wave Of Consumers? | By Paolo Bitanga |
| 09.10.2023 | Philippine Health Insurer lacked Cyber Protection Software, Hacked for Days | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 09 October 2023, 01:10 am
Philippines' state health insurer reportedly had no cyber protection, according to Bloomberg. This paved the way for hackers to exploit and access Filipinos' millions of data. Leaking it ... |
| 14.09.2023 | Australia's Military Chief Warns of 'Truth Decay' Amid AI Disinformation Threat | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 14 September 2023, 04:09 pm
General Angus Campbell, the Chief of the Australian Defence Force, issued a stark warning about the dangers of "truth decay," which he attributed to the development of artificial ... |
| 11.07.2023 | Is Threads Destined to End Twitter? Here's Why It's Getting More Love | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 11 July 2023, 03:07 pm
For quite some time, Meta's Threads has been the most popular app in the social media space. It surprisingly surpassed ChatGPT when it comes to user base as it reached 100 million users in jus... |
| 07.07.2023 | French President Macron's Remarks Deepen Rift with French Police and the Public Amid Riots | Fei Ruby, Tech Times 07 July 2023, 01:07 pm
On Tuesday, June 4, French President Emmanuel Macron decided to pay a visit to a police station in Paris to thank deputies for their continuous hard work amidst the ongoing riots concerning the tr... |
| 04.07.2023 | Elon Musk's Terrible Business Move Causes Twitter's Rival Apps to Rise in Popularity | Fei Ruby, Tech Times 04 July 2023, 04:07 pm
Musk's continued takeover of Twitter has brought about massive amounts of backlash, with the implementation of different controversial rules introduced by none other than himself.
This weekend, th... |
| 16.06.2023 | Что патентуют мировые лидеры edtech-индустрии | Edtеch, или образовательные технологии, сегодня считают одной из самых быстро растущих ниш. Эта сфера не очень богата на патенты, так как в образовательном процессе не так уж много решений, которые можно защитить с помощью этого инструмента... |
| 07.06.2023 | Zomato shares inch toward IPO price after slow 2022 | Consumer TechNewsStartups
Rachel Chitra · 8 Jun 2023 · 1 min readZomato shares inch toward IPO price after slow 2022
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Zomato‘s share price has been inching closer to its July 2021 IPO debut price of 76 rupees (US$0... |
| 06.06.2023 | Where To Start With Generative AI & The Customer Experience | Alorica's CMO, bringing large-scale transformation to brands and creating a personalized CX via digital/traditional channels for 20+ years. |
| 23.05.2023 | Generative AI Editing Coming to Adobe Photoshop: Here's What to Expect | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 23 May 2023, 12:05 pm
The power of generative AI is evidently dominating the tech industry following the success that OpenAI reaped with ChatGPT. Now, Adobe wants to embrace the same technology with the new Generati... |
| 07.03.2023 | Traditional Jeepney Shifts to Electric Motors; A Look at PH's Transport Modernization Plan | John Lopez, Tech Times 07 March 2023, 11:03 am
Six years have passed since the Philippines transportation department launched the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP). This initiative aims to bring the country's public trans... |
| 04.03.2023 | Google Doodle Features Filipino Writer Paz Márquez-Benítez! Here are Some Fun Facts About Her | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 04 March 2023, 06:03 am
Google Doodle featured Filipino writer Paz Márquez-Benítez to celebrate her 129th birthday.
(Photo : Screenshot from the official Google Doodle website )
Google Doodle Features Filipino Wri... |
| 30.01.2023 | Типология провалов: какие ошибки чаще всего допускают компании при выходе за рубеж | Проблемы бизнес-модели
Чрезмерный фокус на первых продажах за рубежом часто связан с стремлением привлечь инвесторов и показать им хороший трекшен. Но нежизнеспособный бизнес даже с финансированием рискует не пройти «долину смерти».
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| 01.01.2023 | Power Failure at Philippine Airport Causes Flight Delays and Cancellations on New Year's Day | John Lopez, Tech Times 01 January 2023, 09:01 am
Flight delays and cancellations affected passengers flying into and out of Manila on New Year's Day when a power outage interrupted contact with planes at the country's air traffic management... |
| 21.10.2022 | eArrival Card to Replace Philippines' One Health Pass; Here's What Makes This New System Better | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 21 October 2022, 12:10 pm
The eArrival Card system will soon replace the Philippines' One Health Pass, as confirmed by the Department of Health.
(Photo : Photo credit should read TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images)
T... |
| 07.10.2022 | China gains when democracies target press freedoms | This June, authorities in the Philippines ordered the boldly independent news website Rappler to shut down. In February 2021, a powerful Senegalese government minister won a defamation case against the daily Le Témoin. That same month in Ma... |
| 11.09.2022 | Bangsamoro Peace and the U.S.-Philippines Alliance | Editor’s Note: The United States has long worked with the Philippines on both counterterrorism and regional security issues such as the rising threat of China, but these issues often followed different tracks. Brian Harding and Haroro Ingra... |
| 23.08.2022 | Want To Make A Difference? Show Courage And Find Meaning- Here Is How | You don't have to be fearless to be courageous. getty |
| 29.06.2022 | Niners Guild is the Philippines’ Newest NFT Gaming Community | ninersguild.com Forming Niners Guild helps us realize our mission of ‘bringing wealth creation to the masses’. It’s a huge step forward towards bringing millions of players in Asia into the web3 space using blockchain gaming.
Philippines (P... |
| 19.05.2022 | New Marcos admin has work cut out to support Filipino startups | Premium Content
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Jenina Ibañez · 1d ago · 6 min readNew Marcos admin has work cut out to support Fil... |
| 08.05.2022 | Philippine Elections 2022: National Search for President during the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 08 May 2022, 10:05 pm
The United States got to vote last 2020, and its Presidential appointment last 2021, but now, it is time for the Philippines' turn to elect the highest seat in power for its country. Philippi... |
| 06.05.2022 | The son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos might be the Philippines' next president, leaving watchdog groups concerned his win would halt the search for his family's ill-gotten wealth | Presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at a political rally in Rizal Province, Philippines on December 11, 2021 Ryan Eduard Benaid/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Under Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship, 34,000 people were tortured and over 3,... |
| 01.05.2022 | Philippine Election 2022: COMELEC Says Smartmatic AES is 'Safe and Secure;' Here's a Look Back at the PHs' Previous Automated Election System Tech | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 01 May 2022, 09:05 am
Smartmatic AES (Automated Election System) is "safe and secure" to be used again for the upcoming Philippines Election 2022 that will happen in May. That's what Commission on Electi... |
| 29.03.2022 | Making Technology fosters STEM education in the Philippines by providing lab devices to schools | Giovanni Tapang, Dwight Bruzon, Hazel Sales, Alimuddin Arriesgado, and Christian Valgomera are five scientists who are researchers at the University of the Philippines Diliman who are on a mission to engage students so that they become inte... |
| 11.03.2022 | How a Southern California Startup is Ushering the Luxury Car Market Into the Digital Age | Luxury retailers saw profits soar during the pandemic |
| 17.01.2022 | How you like that: Behind Tokopedia’s K-wave marketing campaigns | EcommerceTIA Partnership
Stefanie Yeo · 19 Jan 2022 · 6 min readHow you like that: Behind Tokopedia’s K-wave marketing campaigns
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Even if you’ve been living under a rock, you’d be well aware of how hallyu, or the Korean w... |
| 21.12.2021 | Images and videos capture destruction and mass displacement in the aftermath of Typhoon Rai, which has killed 375 people in the Philippines | In this handout photo provided by the Office of the Vice President, toppled trees and structures are scattered due to Typhoon Rai in Siargao island, Surigao del Norte, southern Philippines on Sunday Dec. 19, 2021. Office of the Vice Preside... |
| 13.12.2021 | Photos of the exact moment 39 contestants found out they had won Miss Universe | Miss India Harnaaz Sandhu reacts as she is crowned as Miss Universe. Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images
A new Miss Universe was crowned on December 12: Miss India, Harnaaz Sandhu.
To celebrate, we found photos throughout the ... |
| 14.10.2021 | The Philippines goes after social media influencers’ unpaid taxes | The Philippines’s Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has issued warnings to the country’s top 250 top-earning social media influencers as part of its pursuit to reclaim unpaid taxes. Only 105 out of the 250 influencers responded by registerin... |
| 10.10.2021 | K-pop fans vs Duterte’s Philippines: Why young voters want change | Filipino K-pop fans are more politically discerning than you might think.
Our capacity to mobilise, strategise and mount campaigns are crucial for sparking voter education and triggering discussions to help young people realise how much pow... |
| 06.10.2021 | Metaverse Heats Up: How Axie Infinity’s $3B Valuation Led Crypto Game Frenzy | The article has been updated to emphasize the difference between market cap and fully diluted market cap. Axie Infinity, for instance, is trading at $7.8 billion market cap and at a $34 billion fully diluted market cap. |
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| 20.09.2021 | Boxer Manny Pacquiao is running for president in the Philippines | Boxer Manny Pacquaio is making a run for president in 2022.
Pacquaio, 42, is currently a Filipino senator. He accepted his party’s nomination on Sunday.
The 42-year-old boxing legend was rumored to be retiring after losing a bout to Yordeni... |
| 20.09.2021 | Plug and Play Launch the Second Run of the Global Innovation Alliance Acceleration Program in the Philippines Amidst Strong Appetite for Innovation | SINGAPORE, Sept. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest global innovation platform for industry accelerators, Plug and Play, has partnered with Enterprise Singapore, the Singapore government agency championing enterprise development, in runni... |
| 13.08.2021 | Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 способны определять «состав тела» | Инна Бондарович 13 августа 2021, 21:23 Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 способны определять «состав тела»
Samsung на презентации Galaxy Unpacked показала последние модели своей линейки «умных» часов — Galaxy Watch 4 и Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. Люб... |
| 03.08.2021 | The South China Sea Arbitration Award Five Years Later | Five years ago last month, in a landmark award, a United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) tribunal in The Hague struck down a slew of Chinese maritime claims—and actions in defense of those claims—in the South China Sea. Th... |
| 11.06.2021 | The fast fashion wars go mobile: How apps like Shein and Blushmark are challenging H&M and Zara | Online-only, super-fast, super-cheap fashion dominated the pandemic, spurred by TikTok trends. Now, traditional fast fashion retailers will have to keep up.
While brick-and-mortar retailers like H&M and Zara both have yet to return to p... |
| 11.06.2021 | The fast fashion wars go mobile: How apps like Shein and Blushmark are challenging H&M and Zara | While Shein and Blushmark are taking over social media, traditional fashion retailers like H&M and Zara are struggling to return to pre-pandemic sales levels. While Zara saw first quarter sales double in the first quarter of 2021 as com... |
| 04.05.2021 | Duterte Takes Chinese Vaccine the Same Day His Government Cursed Beijing | As tensions rise in the disputed South China Sea, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took an unregistered China-made coronavirus shot on Monday evening, on the same day his foreign secretary dropped the F-word on Beijing.
In a Facebook li... |
| 21.04.2021 | Water Wars: Chinese Maritime Militia Disperses Amid Political Standoff With the Philippines and the United States | A political standoff between China and the Philippines over a reef in the South China Sea has begun to subside, while Taiwan reacts to a new normal of continuous Chinese military activity around the island nation. In the background of both ... |
| 16.04.2021 | The Whitsun Reef Incident and the Law of the Sea | In March the Philippines formally protested the presence of about 200 Chinese boats moored near its claimed Whitsun Reef in the South China Sea. Philippines Secretary of Defense Delfin Lorenzana publicly called “on the Chinese to stop this ... |
| 24.03.2021 | Silicon Valley firms to keep their offices closed despite ease in restrictions | Seems like big tech firms are in no hurry to open up their offices. Several of San Francisco Bay Area’s largest technology companies including Twitter and Google plan to keep their offices largely closed for months more despite the governme... |
| 26.02.2021 | Working From Home? Here's Why You Need a Fake Commute. | February 26, 2021 8 min read
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Before Covid-19 ravaged the world, 86% of the 151 million American workers surveyed for the 2018 American Community Survey said they drove to work e... |
| 27.01.2021 | Water Wars Special: How IUU Fishing Increases the Risk of Conflict | This month, the Biden administration made some early pronouncements on Chinese activity in the Taiwan Strait and reassured Japan that the U.S. is committed to its security. Japan signaled a more aggressive stance in the South China Sea, whi... |
| 19.01.2021 | If Trump Can Be Banned, What About Other World Leaders Who Incite Violence? | Twitter finally banned Donald Trump on January 8th, 12 days before the end of his term as president, and two days after he instigated a violent mob that stormed the Capitol as Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 election. Facebo... |
| 23.12.2020 | Water Wars: Flirting in the Taiwan Strait | This month saw some notable military activity in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, continued diplomatic efforts by the United States and its partners to push back against China, and a renewed emphasis by the U.S. Navy on countering Chi... |
| 17.12.2020 | Sizzling Scene: 6 Ways The Filipino Plant-Based Scene Is Heating Up | 194 1
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| 11.11.2020 | Maria Ressa calls for "emergency intervention" in social media: "It is untenable for democracy" | Journalist Maria Ressa, who has spent decades of her career exposing corruption and disinformation, is calling for "emergency intervention" to combat social media's influence on politics and society.
"We're living in 'The Mat... |
| 05.11.2020 | Scaling the Counterrorism Return on Investment in Support of Great Power Competition | A rise in terrorist activities due to the coronavirus pandemic has drastically constrained affected governments’ ability to conduct effective counterterrorism operations. For example, Islamic State-affiliated fighters were able to take cont... |
| 02.11.2020 | Suning’s SN lost at LoL Worlds finals but keeps strong in ‘Double 11’ e-commerce competition | Suning Gaming (SN), an e-sports team owned by Chinese retail giant Suning (002024.SZ), was defeated by League of Legends Champions Korea (LPK) representative DAMWON Gaming (DWG) with a score of 1-3 at this year’s LoL championships finals on... |
| 20.10.2020 | Zomato stops Pro features in Indonesia and the Philippines, reportedly lays off local team | Indian restaurant aggregator app Zomato has stopped its subscription program Zomato Pro in Indonesia and the Philippines. The unicorn also laid off the local team in Indonesia, according to local media DailySocial. It will handle the operat... |
| 08.10.2020 | Could new Philippines telco Dito be a Chinese Trojan horse? | |
| 01.10.2020 | Women Journalists Are Focus Of Monthly “10 Most Urgent” List Of Press Freedom Cases | In the nick of time, Egypt’s Tora Prison recently found a way to keep three journalists behind bars. Freelance reporter Solafa Magdy is among the three whose pre-trial detention term was set to expire at the end of August. In the month’s fi... |
| 26.08.2020 | Observers Question Duterte’s Ability to Lead After He Revealed He Has a Chronic Illness That May Lead to Cancer | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte admitted that he has a chronic condition called Barrett's esophagus may eventually lead to cancer—raising questions about his health and his capacity to lead the country amid a worsening coronavirus pand... |
| 26.08.2020 | The NFT Game That Makes Cents for Filipinos During COVID | In the early 1980s, anti-video game propaganda depicted zombie-like “vidiots” hypnotized by their Pac-Mans and their Space Invaders. Lured into the dank depths of the arcade, innocent teenagers were at risk of becoming addicted, flunking sc... |
| 25.08.2020 | Philippine Military Pins Deadly Twin Explosions on Female Suicide Bombers | The Philippine military said on Tuesday, August 25, that two female suicide bombers may have been responsible for a bombing attack in a southern Philippine town that left at least 15 people dead.
Two explosives detonated on Monday, August 2... |
| 24.08.2020 | Case of US Marine Found Guilty of Killing a Trans Woman in the Philippines Closed After Six Years | A U.S. Marine who was found guilty of killing a 26-year-old transgender woman named Jennifer Laude in 2014 has withdrawn an appeal of his conviction in the Philippine Supreme Court
Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton was convicted of homi... |
| 24.08.2020 | Twin Explosions in the Philippines Leave Several Dead, Wounded | Twin explosions rocked the southern Philippine province of Sulu on Monday morning, August 24, leaving at least 11 people dead and dozens more injured. According to Associated Press, at least 11 soldiers and civilians were killed in the blas... |
| 21.08.2020 | A Product Labeled ‘Manila, Province of China’ Has Stirred Discussions About Duterte’s Cozy Relationship With China | A beauty product labeled as made in “Manila, Province of China” provoked anger amongst Filipinos when photos of it began circulating online. The product, sold at an outlet in Manila’s Chinatown district, listed “Manila Province, People’s Re... |
| 21.07.2020 | Eight Drug Lords and a Key Witness Allegedly Died of COVID in a Philippine Prison. Now Everyone Wants Proof. | At least eight convicted drug lords and a high-profile witness housed in the Philippines’ New Bilibid Prison (NBP) have recently been reported dead due to complications arising from COVID-19.
But, in a testament to the prison system’s troub... |
| 17.07.2020 | Duterte’s Sidekick Is Having His Online Critics Investigated Amid Fears of Gov’t Abuse of Cybercrime Laws | Christopher "Bong" Go, a Philippine senator and a close confidante of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, has requested authorities investigate several of his critics under the country’s controversial cyberlibel laws, leading to... |
| 16.07.2020 | The Philippines Said COVID-19 Patients Will Get 'Vacations' in Quarantine. Here's Why Everyone's Worried. | Philippine Interior Secretary Eduardo Año set off a cascade of concerns on Tuesday when he announced that national police would begin conducting “house-to-house” searches to round up asymptomatic and mild Covid-19 patients and place them in... |
| 10.07.2020 | In a Win for Duterte, the Philippine Congress Officially Shut Down the Country’s Largest News Network | The Philippines' House of Representatives on Friday formally rejected the franchise application of the country’s largest news network, ABS-CBN, effectively finalizing a shutdown that started in May.
ABS-CBN stopped airing on free TV on May ... |
| 03.07.2020 | Duterte Just Signed the Philippines’ Controversial Anti-Terrorism Bill Into Law | Despite a torrent of criticism and a month of protests, both online and in the streets, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday signed into law the country’s controversial anti-terror bill, which many observers fear will be used as a... |
| 02.07.2020 | After Hong Kong, Could the Philippines Be the Next to See a Law Against Government Critics? | A controversial anti-terror bill in the Philippines has been on President Rodrigo Duterte’s desk since mid-June, awaiting a signature.
Duterte certified the bill as urgent, which allowed it to speed through Congress—mostly made up of his al... |
| 29.06.2020 | 20 People Were Arrested When Police Broke up Manila's Pride Protest | When Rey Valmores-Salinas left her home on Thursday to celebrate Pride in Manila, she was expecting a peaceful afternoon march to Mendiola, a historic protest site. Masked and clutching a rainbow “Junk Terror Bill” flag, Salinas occasionall... |
| 25.06.2020 | How ‘Locker Room Talk’ at a Cookie Company Helped Fuel a Movement Against Toxic Masculinity in the Philippines | When the #MeToo movement exploded onto the collective consciousness of the United States in 2017, it prompted a years-long reckoning—one that’s still ongoing—with the country’s history of pervasive sexism and sexual abuse.
A year later, the... |
| 17.06.2020 | The Philippine Gov’t Wants Distance Learning for Public School Students. It’s Far From Ready. | For weeks, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has made one thing clear: there will be no “face-to-face” classes in schools until a COVID-19 vaccine is available.
Now, with the pandemic far from contained, and a vaccine likely months away ... |
| 15.06.2020 | Philippines Spits On Free Speech, Convicts Journalist Maria Ressa For Criminal 'Cyber Libel' | This is a real travesty. Reporter Maria Ressa (and research Rey Santos Jr.) have been convicted of criminal "cyber libel" in the Philippines, and now face fines and possibly years in jail for their reporting -- a direct attack on ... |
| 15.06.2020 | Rappler Chief Executive Maria Ressa Convicted of Cyber Libel; Here's What Online Users Need to Know | Staff Reporter, Tech Times 15 June 2020, 02:06 pm
Manila, Philippines - On June 15, Monday, one of the Philippines' most prominent journalists, and founder of Filipino independent news site Rappler, Maria Ressa, was convicted guilty of cybe... |
| 15.06.2020 | Philippines Spits On Free Speech, Convicts Journalist Maria Ressa For Criminal 'Cyber Libel' | This is a real travesty. Reporter Maria Ressa (and research Rey Santos Jr.) have been convicted of criminal “cyber libel” in the Philippines, and now face fines and possibly years in jail for their reporting — a direct attack on free speech... |
| 15.06.2020 | Maria Ressa, founder of Filipino independent media site Rappler, found guilty in cyber libel trial | Veteran journalist Maria Ressa, the founder of Filipino independent news site Rappler, was found guilty on Monday of cyber libel charges by a Manila court. She faces up to six years in prison. Critics of the case, which include prominent hu... |
| 12.06.2020 | The Philippine Gov't Banned Rallies, So Protestors Threw a 'Party' on Independence Day Instead | On Friday, June 12, the Philippines marked its 122nd Independence Day. But with a looming controversial anti-terror bill in the offing that activists describe as a tool of repression, and the specter of the continuing coronavirus pandemic, ... |
| 26.05.2020 | To See Libra's Potential, Look at the Philippines, Not the US | Leah Callon-Butler, a CoinDesk columnist, is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm focused on the role of technology in advancing economic development in Asia.
The recent update to the Libra white paper has re-ignited debate around Fa... |
| 21.05.2020 | Philippines Government Uses Cybercrime Law To Arrest A Citizen For Calling The President An 'Asshole' | All things are cyber these days, including handy government tools meant to shield thin-skinned leaders from criticism. For a guy who goes around bragging about killing drug dealers, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte seems oddly unable t... |
