‘Shame on you!’: Fil-Ams in New York tell Marcos to go home
“Mary Ann de Vera has died. But where are you? Here, staying in US$17,000 per night hotel rooms! Shame on you!” the activists said.
“Mary Ann de Vera has died. But where are you? Here, staying in US$17,000 per night hotel rooms! Shame on you!” the activists said.
Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz as a no-sail zone following joint attacks by the US and Israel starting February 28, affecting roughly 20,000 seafarers and 15,000 cruise passengers.
“We allow nobody to interfere in our domestic affairs. This is up to the Iranian people to elect their new leader,” Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said.
“Any enabling law that falls short of outright prohibition is not reform — it is a mockery of the Constitution, and we refuse to be party to it,” ACT, Kabataan and Gabriela representatives said.
OWWA said that based on its simulations, mass evacuation of OFWs from the region could cost up to PHP3.67 billion if the crisis continues to escalate.
“[T]he Appeals Chamber rejects the Defence’s arguments concerning the principle of equality of arms, as well as Mr Duterte’s rights to a fair hearing and to a reasoned decision,” the ICC decision reads.
Five UN special rapporteurs said that journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and church lay worker Marielle Domequil’s continued imprisonment is “deeply troubling,” as their petition for temporary liberty had been denied by a local court on the extra charge of terrorism financing.
Filipino activists trooped to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Manila on Thursday to express sympathies and solidarity for the more than a thousand killed by the ongoing US and Israel attack against the country.
With a projected P15/liter increase in diesel and P7/liter in gasoline prices starting Tuesday, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) demanded the removal of value added and excise taxes on petroleum products, warning of a runaway inflation should the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. fail to swiftly act against oil price increases.
The Committee on Justice of the House of Representatives (HOR) of the Philippines voted the two remaining impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte are “sufficient in substance.”




