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Duterte Beach? Google Maps tag appears amid ‘white sand’ mess
Is “Duterte Beach” a thing now? It would seem so, if Google Maps is to be believed. On Saturday, Google Maps was displaying a stretch of the Manila Bay shore as “Duterte Beach.” The pin was geotagged to the Ermita Center ...
- September 21, 2020
Boracay rehab on track amid pandemic
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu says he remains on track to complete the rehabilitation of the world famous Boracay Island in Aklan by May 2021. The one-year extension given to the Boracay ...
- June 14, 2020
Inconsistencies
It is in this tale of fish kills and egrets that the role of political biases in engendering inconsistencies become more pointed, because it also afflicts the critics of the President. Duterte critics, for their part, lost ...
- September 22, 2020
'China to turn over WPS structures to PH'
The structures, including the military facilities that China built on the West Philippine Sea, may end up with the Philippines once the “day of reckoning” comes, a lawmaker said Monday, adding the continuous building of ...
- October 6, 2020
DA assures enough food supply for Metro Manila’s 14-M population
As President Duterte placed Metro Manila under “community quarantine” following the rise in local transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the country’s top agriculture official assured that Metro Manila, home ...
- March 14, 2020
Growing resistance to Beijing aggression
Tensions have reached new levels four years after the arbitral decision declared unlawful and without basis Beijing’s absurd “nine-dash line” territorial claim of 1.3 million square miles in the South China Sea (SCS). For ...
- July 13, 2020
Alarming Chinese incursion
We wish we could believe that a newly completed beaching ramp built by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Pag-asa Island at the West Philippine Sea is really meant to counter the incursion of the Chinese naval ...
- June 15, 2020
Philippines protests Chinese fishing seizures, air warnings
The Philippine government filed a diplomatic protest after Chinese forces seized fishing equipment set up by Filipinos in a disputed shoal in their latest territorial spat in the South China Sea. The Department of Foreign ...
- August 22, 2020
China denies SCS ruling anew: Envoy: ‘Consensus’ reached by Xi, Duterte is to ‘put aside’ arbitral decision
China has underlined its non-recognition of the 2016 international arbitral ruling favoring the Philippines and nullifying Beijing’s nine-dash line claim over nearly all of the South China Sea, only days after President ...
- September 27, 2020
Manila Bay funds could have fed poor families - Leni
The P349 million allocated by the government to transform a portion of Manila Bay into a white sand beach could have been used to feed 80,000 hungry families, Vice President Leni Robredo said yesterday. “It’s insensitive ...
- September 7, 2020