The blind Filipina singer, Katchry Jewel Golbin (stage name Alienette Coldfire), who became an online sensation for her moving story and audition piece, finished third in the grand finals of the French talent show France a un Incroyable Talent (France Got Talent) on Tuesday evening (Wednesday morning in Manila), reports Inquirer.net.
Senator Leila de Lima and Congresswoman Geraldine Roman were named among Foreign Policy magazine’s Leading Global Thinkers of 2016. Senator de Lima, a critic of President Rodrigo Duterte’s extrajudicial killings of suspected drug addicts and pushers, is the target of sustained attacks by the administration and its allies. Foreign Policy honored her “for standing up to an extremist leader.” Rep. Geraldine Roman is the first transgender elected to public office in the Philippines. She was honored “for redefining fitness to govern.”
Rhio Fuentes-Nuylan (Source: Philstar.com)
Lawyer walked up the stage of the esteemed Queen Mary University of London After a year of postgraduate studies under the prestigious Chevening Scholarship, which is under the auspices of the British government, Filipina lawyer Rhio Fuentes-Nuylan graduated with distinction from Queen Mary University of London, where bested other students in her class and was awarded the Top Performing Student for the Master of Science in Law and Finance, reports Yahoo/Philstar.com.
A multimedia presentation of Duterte's war on drugs (Source: New York Times)
A photographer/reporter for the New York Times documented the bloody and chaotic campaign against drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte began when he took office on June 30. Since then, about 2,000 people had been slain at the hands of the police alone.
Young Filipinos once again proved their talent in mathematics by bagging a total of 32 medals at an international math contest in India. The Philippine team won 23 gold, six silver and three bronze medals in the 7th International Young Mathematician's Convention, which was held from November 30 to December 5 in Lucknow, India. They also emerged as overall champions in the senior division, reports ABS-CBN News.
The national government’s debt levels dropped further in September as a robust economy and increased spending offset revenue losses, according to the Department of Finance (DOF). Debt management measures led to the continuing drop in the Debt to GDP ratio to 44.2% as of September 2016, an improvement from end-2015 ratio of 44.7%, reports Rappler.
Chinese coast guard ships have rescued two Filipino fishermen in bad weather at a disputed shoal and handed them back Friday to the Philippines in a show of how President Rodrigo Duterte has turned once-frosty relations with Beijing, reports the Seattle Times/AP.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte invited US President-elect Donald Trump to visit the Philippines in 2017, Friday evening, December 2, after a "very engaging, animated" phone conversation between the two leaders. During their brief talk, Trump invited Duterte visit him in the White House in 2017, reports Rappler.
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