The Philippines is not a poor country

Gideon Lasco - @inquirerdotnet 01/01/2021

You have people say it over and over again that the Philippines is a poor country, and thus we shouldn’t expect to have the things that richer countries have. Like good health care, such as that of…

COVID-19 cases top 80 million worldwide—AFP count

Agence France Presse 12/27/2020

PARIS — More than 80 million confirmed cases of coronavirus have been detected worldwide since the pandemic began a year ago and 1.76 million deaths, according to an AFP tally based on official figures at 0800 GMT…

Boy, 6, spends over $16,000 on video game using mom’s credit card

Inquirer.net 12/13/2020

One mom in the United States thought she was a victim of credit card fraud when she saw charges on her card that racked up to over $16,000 (about P770,000). However, it turned out that the culprit…

UN: Philippines gets P182 million int’l aid for typhoon victims

Frances Mangosing - Reporter / @FMangosingINQ 11/20/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The United Nations (UN) has announced P182 million worth of aid to typhoon victims in the Philippines. The European Union, Sweden, Australia, United States, Germany, and New Zealand were among those that extended assistance…

American elections through Filipino eyes

Randy David - @inquirerdotnet 11/08/2020

Because the Philippine political system has been largely modeled after that of the United States, Filipinos have an abiding interest in knowing how the system is supposed to work. We have always looked to America for lessons…

Trump, Biden, and our economy

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 11/03/2020

Today, Americans will choose a new president, and many have asked me what the implications of a Trump or Biden victory would be for the Philippine economy. We can’t say that our economy has thrived within the…

US passes nine million COVID-19 cases as infections spike

Agence France Presse 10/31/2020

WASHINGTON, United States — The United States passed nine million reported coronavirus cases on Friday and broke its own record for daily new infections for the second day in a row, according to a tally from Johns…

Pemberton pardon right, fair – Locsin

Dona Pazzibungan 09/10/2020

MANILA, Philippines — In a series of tweets on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. expressed sympathy for former US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton and defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to grant the American…

David and Goliath: China and Taiwan’s military mismatch

Agence France Presse 08/10/2020

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Few geopolitical contests are as mismatched as China and Taiwan. One is an authoritarian regional superpower of 1.4 billion people that boasts the world’s largest standing army and spends more on its military than…

US vs China: The real Cold War

Richard Heydarian - @inquirerdotnet 08/04/2020

  Defining world order as the set of commonly accepted rules that govern inter-state relations, Henry Kissinger warned of systematic crisis when there is “either a re-definition of legitimacy or a significant shift in the balance of…

Top coronavirus advisor warns US in ‘new phase’ of pandemic

Agence France Presse 08/03/2020

WASHINGTON — The United States has entered a “new phase” of the pandemic, White House coronavirus advisor Deborah Birx warned Sunday, with rural areas just as threatened as major cities. Birx, who heads the White House coronavirus task…

US infections top three million as Trump pushes schools reopening

Agence France Presse 07/09/2020

WASHINGTON, United States – The United States topped three million confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed for schools to re-open amid a COVID-19 resurgence in many southern hotspots. The US remains by far the…

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