Donald Trump is wildly unpopular among Asian-American voters, who are flocking to the Democratic Party, according to a new survey. Only 19 percent of Asian Americans hold a favorable view of the presumptive Republican nominee, according to a survey of more than 1,000 registered Asian Americans conducted by three Asian-American NGOs, while 61 percent view him unfavorably, reports Politico.com.
Josh Mangila
Filipino multimedia personality Josh Mangila, editor in chief of “XPEDITION,” a luxury travel magazine targeted to the affluent society in the Middle East, will be awarded the “Most Influential Travel Journalist” by European Tourism Award in Malta on the first week of October, reports Inquirer.net.
The Philippine economy expanded by 7.0 percent in the second quarter, official data showed, but President Rodrigo Duterte's administration said major changes were needed to fix one of Asia's biggest rich-poor divides, reports GMA News.
Two United Nations (UN) human rights experts called on President Rodrigo Duterte to stop the unabated killings in his war on drugs, with one of them warning that the Philippine leader's incitement to violence is a crime under international law, reports ABS-CBN News. Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, called out Duterte for endorsing the killing of drug suspects, describing the new president's statements as a "license to kill."
Bob Arum (Source: wikipedia)
After HBO recently declined to distribute Manny Pacquiao's Nov. 5 pay-per-view fight against Jessie Vargas, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum became incensed. In fact he's quoted in the LA Times as accusing the network of "abandoning" Pacquiao "after sucking him dry for 10 years," reports badlefthook.com.
Danny Namion
Danny Namion, 36, of Advance Forces Security, didn’t even have money to buy lunch, but he earned praise by returning a mysterious backpack containing a staggering P.5 worth of cash or (US$10,700) plus other valuable documents and gadgets. The bag was mistakenly left inside a baggage cart by a local passenger of NAIA Terminal 1, arrival area, reports Dailypedia.com.
Philippine Navy Ensign Maycee Angga with Consul Rommel Romato in Dartmouth, England. (Source: GMA News)
A Filipina Navy officer, Maycee Angga, has been named best international studentat the Britannia Royal Naval College, the initial officer training establishment of the British Royal Navy, in Dartmouth, United Kingdom. Philippine Navy Ensign Angga bested 131 other naval officers from the UK, Albania, the Bahamas, Egypt, Libya, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates,and Ukraine, reports GMA News.
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