The country's fast growing business process outsourcing sector will have to push into higher value services in the face of United States President-elect Donald Trump's potentially damaging trade war, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said, reports Rappler.
Filipino travelers can visit 61 countries without applying for a visa, according to immigration and citizenship firm Henley & Partners, which placed the country , reports GMA News.
Jollibee is forming a joint venture with a Singaporean partner BlackBird to own and operate the first Jollibee store in Italy, its first in Europe, reports ABS-CBN News.
President Rodrigo Duterte declared that deadly anti-drug vigilantes were real. "'Yung vigilantes, totoo 'yan, nakuha nila sa akin 'yan," said Duterte on Wednesday, March 29, during a speech in Oriental Mindoro. (The vigilantes are real, they got it from me.), reports Rappler. Officials, however, continue to deny that the national police has anything to do with the killings.
After declining in the last two years, the number of policemen accused of human rights violations rose in the first quarter of 2017, according to data from the Philippine National Police-Human Rights Affairs Office (PNP-HRAO), reports Inquirer.net.
Erwin Valmoria Macua
Just hours before he graduates with honors Erwin Valmoria Macua. 38, was still on duty, working the night shift as a security guard at the Catholic-run St. Theresa’s College (STC) in Cebu City. Seventeen years after serving the school as one of its security guards, the 38-year-old father of three, received an STC diploma for a baccalaureate degree in Elementary Education (BeEd), cum laude, reports Cebu Daily News/Inquirer.net.
Alex Tizon (Photo by Daniel D. Morrison)
Filipino American investigative journalist Alex Tizon, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, died in Eugene, Oregon on Thursday (Friday in Manila). He was 58. A report by The Oregonian said that Tizon died in his sleep of natural causes, quoting University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Dean Juan-Carlos Molleda, reports GMA News. Tizon was a professor of journalism at the university.
Stop extrajudicial killings instead of requesting media to “tone down” reports on them the reaction of Dr. Agnes Callamard, United Nations rights rapporteur, to the remark made by Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo, reports Inquirer.net. On Wednesday, Teo said in a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand, that reports about the killings related to President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs was not good for tourism.
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