Philippine News

HEAVY VETTING

DEPUTY CONSUL GENERAL Felipe F. Carino asks the sanitized few questions from the media while Attorney Nancy Aurora Q. Fajardo, assistant of Philippine Vice President Leni G. Robredo vets the advanced questions, during a press conference shortly before Vice President Robredo keynoted the...

INTRODUCING

VICE PRESIDENT Leni Robredo laments extra-judicial killings in the Philippines little more than a month ago after the takeover of the Rody Duterte government during a press conference shortly before she keynoted the 12th National Empowerment Conference of the National Federation of F...

VP LENI SAYS, “STOP EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS!”

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvania (JGL) – Vice President Leni G. Robredo told a press conference here Saturday that “extra-judicial killings” have got to stop,

THIS WHISTLE-BLOWER IS A HAPPY CAMPER WITH PRES. DUTERTE

First-Person Account By JOSEPH M. OCOL Contributor (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) (Editor’s note: When President Rodrigo Duterte suggested at his State of the nation Address (SONA) last July 25, 2016 that he wants Congress to pass a law protecting whistle blowers, one of those whistle blowers, M...

IS LENI ROBREDO FORGETFUL OR FLAT-OUT DISHONEST?

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – Incoming Vice President Leni Robredo is only 52 years old but she seems to be having some senior moments. When Congresswoman Robredo was interviewed by ABS-CBN's late night news television program, Bandila (flag), she was as...

US GROUP SUPPORTS NEW PH GOVERNMENT’S EFFORT TO RENEW PEACE TALKS WITH CPP-NPA

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – A group in the United States has written U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to “down-grade the rating of the Philippines to a Tier 2 Watch List in their annual Trafficking in Persons Report until it no longer misuses trafficking...

BELL THAT “WAR COULD NOT DESTROY” IS BACK IN PH

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – “RETURN TO SOURCE.” “SHIP TO: CLARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION E. QUIRINO AVENUE, FREEPORT ZONE, PHILIPPINES, c/o ATTY. ARTHUR P. TUGADE. “FOR ONWARD SHIPMENT TO: CHURCH OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CENTRAL EAST, BAUANG, LA UNION, 2...

KOREAN AMERICAN NOMINATED BY OBAMA AS NEXT PH AMBASSADOR

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2016 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – President Barack Obama on Wednesday (May 18) announced his intention to nominate Ambassador Sung Y. Kim, a career member of the United States Foreign Service, as the next ambassador to the Philippines. Mr. Kim, who is the U.S.’...