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Duterte: No severing diplomatic ties with the United States
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by DANA
SIOSON AJPress
DIPLOMATIC ties between the Philippines and the United States will not be cut off, President Rodrigo Duterte clarified upon his arrival in Davao City after his four-day state visit to China. The president said his declaration of an economic and military split from the U.S. should be taken in the context of what he has been saying all along. “It’s not severance of ties because in severance of ties, you
have to cut diplomatic relations,” Duterte said during a press conference on the evening of Friday, October 21. “I cannot do that.” During the Philippines-China Trade and Investment Forum on Thursday, October 20 in Beijing, Duterte announced that he is breaking away militarily and economically from the U.S., the Philippines’ longtime ally. “I announce my separation from the United States both in the military…not social, but economics also. So please you have another problem of economics in my country,” he said, adding
that the Philippines would be more dependent on China instead. Later on in his speech, Duterte said he is open to visiting Russia to talk with President Vladimir Putin. “There are three of us against the world. China, Philippines, Russia,” Duterte expressed. Upon his return to the Philippines, Duterte explained that what he meant by “separation” was a “separation of foreign policy.” He noted that in the past and
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Fil-Am Trump, Clinton supporters confident in their candidate
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Clinton and Donald Trump ended on Wednesday, October LAS VEGAS — “Build a wall 19. Though, both candidates around Trump!” over a dozen Filipino-American labor orga- have previously delineated nizers and community lead- their stances on immigration ers chanted moments after the — perhaps one of the defining third and final debate between issues in this election — many presidential nominees Hillary Fil-Ams, both Democrats and AJPress
Donald Trump
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SIOSON AJPress
SENATOR Leila De Lima on Thursday, October 20, said the House of Representatives should now move on from the “circus of sex, violence and videotape melodrama” after failing to uncover the truth behind the alleged drug trade in the National Bilibid Prison (NBP). In its report released on Wednes-
FBI help rescue dozens of Typhoon Lawin leaves trafficked children trail of destruction through Northern PH Senator Leila De Lima
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Republicans, told the Asian Journal that having it as a topic was one of the reasons they were closely watching this debate, given that it hits close to home. Many Filipinos have been waiting in line more than 20
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Hillary Clinton
De Lima: Inquiry failed to uncover truth behind NBP drug trade
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THE US Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with representatives from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and several international law enforcement partners, rescued 82 minors and arrested 239 traffickers and their associates in operations carried out in the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia. The arrests were made under Operation Cross Country, an international effort focusing on underage human trafficking that ran from October 13 to 16, 2016. In the Philippines, using information from the FBI, law enforcers recovered two boys, aged 5 and 11, and a two-year-old girl. Authorities arrested five adults who ran a web-streaming service for individuals who would pay for access to livestreaming sexual abuse, as well as access to the children for the purpose of illegal sexual acts.
MAKING FRIENDS. President Rodrigo Duterte shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday, Oct. 20. The two leaders held “extensive” and “amicable” official talks and oversaw the signing of bilateral cooperation documents on business, infrastructure, and agriculture, among other fields, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, without giving details. Malacañang photo
AFTER LAST DEBATE
DATELINE UCLA hosts PH archaeology research showcase COINCIDING with Filipino American History Month, UCLA’s Costen Institute of Archaeology presented a research study that explored one of the most enthralling provinces in the Philippines. Over the course of 10 years, Stephen Acabado, assistant professor at UCLA’s archaeology department, has been conducting collaborative research on the Ifugao province called the Ifugao Archaeological Project (IAP). At the symposium on Thursday, October 23, Acabado was accompanied by Willeke Wendrich, director of the Costen Institute of Archaeology, and Adelio Cruz, Philippine Consulate General of Los Angeles, who delivered opening remarks. According to Acabado, the study’s mission was to explore the relationships be-
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day, October 19, the House Committee on Justice stated that there was “sufficient evidence” to support De Lima’s involvement in the Bilibid drug trade. However, it did not propose filing charges against her and instead, recommended that the Department of Justice (DOJ) undertake further investigation. De Lima, however, stressed that the DOJ has no business conduct-
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Probe underway for incident outside US Embassy in Manila PNP chief angered, saddened by violence
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Thousands of people were displaced from their homes as Typhoon Lawin battered the Northern Philippines with extreme winds and rain for nearly two days before departing from the mainland on Thursday, October 20. The storm made landfall at the North Eastern corner of the country at Penáblanca, Cagayan on Wednesday, October 19, at about 11 p.m. local time. It proceeded to cause flooding, landslides and power outages as it travelled westward over Batanes, Ilocos Norte, Cagayan and other provinces. “We have received several reports of roofs that were ripped off because of strong winds,” said Mina Marasigan, a spokesperson for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
DISPERSAL. An anti-U.S. rally turned violent on Wednesday, Oct. 19 in front of the American embassy along Roxas Boulevard in Manila. The militant groups were joined by students and indigenous communities as they protested the presence of visiting US troops in the Philippines and expressed their support for the call of President Rodrigo Duterte for an independent foreign policy. ManilaTimes.net photo by Rene Dilan
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SIOSON/AJPress
PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa assured the public that the guilty will be held liable, expressing anger and sadness over the violent dispersal of protesters near the United States Embassy in Manila earlier this week. (NDRRMC). “Even the operations center of the Office At least 20 protesters and 30 police officers of Civil Defense in (Cagayan) was not spared.” were reportedly injured in the dispersal conductDepartment of the Interior and Local Government ed by Manila Police District (MPD) personnel on (DILG) Director Edgar Allan Tabell said at least eight Wednesday, October 19. people have died and two people have gone missing The PNP chief said the incident is now being inas a result of severe weather conditions, according to vestigated and charges will be brought upon those POWER LINES DOWN. Electric posts toppled by Supertyphoon “Lawin” block Campos Street in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan province. Even so, authorities reported a low death toll after the typhoon barreled through northern Luzon. Inquirer.net photo by Richard Reyes
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