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Commercial Since Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assumed workplace in June 2022, the Philippines has regularly set about reaffirming its greater than 50-year partnership with the US. His predecessor, former President Rodrigo Duterte, had been outspoken in his disapproval of Washington’s interventionism, whereas courting Beijing’s good graces in hopes of …

The United States, the Philippines’ oldest defense ally, will not ask Manila to choose sides in a perceived geopolitical rivalry with China, a senior American diplomat said Friday.  Manila should make decisions in its national interest, Daniel Kritenbrink, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, …

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa and her online news company were cleared Wednesday of tax evasion charges she said were among a slew of legal cases used by former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to try to muzzle critical reporting. The Court of Tax Appeals ruled …

ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia The four charges were filed against Ressa and her news site Rappler by President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration in 2018. Filipino journalist Maria Ressa, center, one of the winners of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and Rappler CEO, speaks to the media after a court decision at the …

Comment on this story Comment MANILA — Embattled Philippine journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa was acquitted of tax evasion charges on Wednesday, in a decision welcomed by rights activists who have expressed concern over worsening press freedoms in the Southeast Asian country. The Philippine Court of Tax …

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – When Ezeigwe Evaristus Chukwuebuka, a Nigerian man completed his 12-year sentence for financial fraud in Vietnam, he expected to fly home and see his family. Convicted in 2012, Chukwuebuka was released four years early, having endured hard labour — defined by the Vietnamese authorities as …

Advertisement The inflation crisis in the Philippines is reflected in the unprecedentedly high cost of onions, which forced the government of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to launch rolling stores, release smuggled goods, and import from nearby countries. Consumers started to notice the rising price of onions in August of last …

2021 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa, co-founder and CEO of Rappler.com, gives a keynote address at the East-West Center’s International Media Conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i, June 28, 2022. Credit: East-West Center Advertisement When Rodrigo Duterte took office in June 2016 as the president of the Philippines, he fulfilled an …

Miss USA has been crowned Miss Universe, the first time an American has won in 11 years. The winner was R’Bonney Gabriel, a 28-year-old fashion designer, who was born in Houston, Texas. Her father is originally from the Philippines and R’Bonney, who speaks Tagalog fluently, last year called herself a …

Beijing says it remains committed to joint oil exploration with Manila in the disputed South China Sea despite a Philippine Supreme Court decision that declared a previous such deal, also involving China, unconstitutional.  The court this week voided a 2005 agreement with China and Vietnam because it involved wholly foreign-owned …

Advertisement The Philippine Supreme Court has ruled that only the Philippines can supervise the exploration of its natural resources, declaring unconstitutional a 2005 agreement between China, Vietnam, and the Philippines to jointly explore for oil in the disputed South China Sea. The decision by 12 of the court’s 15 justices …

The Philippines Supreme Court on Tuesday declared a 2005 South China Sea oil exploration agreement with China and Vietnam unconstitutional because it allowed foreign corporations to prospect for natural resources belonging to the Filipino people but without proper safeguards.  The ruling went against the Joint Seismic Marine Undertaking deal, which …