Florence Ebersole Smith Finch
Florence Ebersole Smith Finch was held captive by the Japanese during World War II, tortured and forced to curl up in a 2-foot-by-4-foot box, after she was caught steering supplies to Filipino guerrillas and American POWs. Finch, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran was buried Saturday with full military honors. She died Dec. 8 at age 101, reports Yahoo News.
Nick Joaquin
In time for the centenary of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin’s birthday, his short story collection, “The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic," was included in the “Ten books to read in April” list of British Broadcasting Company (BBC). The book was also positively reviewed by US public radio station, NPR, reports Philstar.
The I.C.C. should promptly open a preliminary investigation into the killings, urged The New York Times in an editorial, after a Filipino lawyer formally asked the International Criminal Courtto charge President Rodrigo Duterte and 11 officials with mass murder and crimes against humanity over the extrajudicial killings of thousands of people in the Philippines over the past three decades.
Isuzu Motors will roll out its "modern" version of the most popular means of public transportation in the Philippines--the jeepney, reports Entrepreneur Philppines.
Rappler ranks the 10 ASEAN nations on 8 different categories (traffic, corruption, crime, etc.), to see how they compare to one another. The Philippines ranked worst in poverty (with Myanmar) and best in women's rights and cost of living.
Sen. Leila De Lima (left) and President Rodrigo Duterte (Photos by Joan Bondoc/Inquirer.net)
Time magazine included two Filipino politicians on its annual list of “The 100 Most Influential People” – President Rodrigo Duterte, whose bloody war on drugs has been making headlines here and abroad, and Sen. Leila de Lima, who has been among Duterte’s most vocal and persistent critics, reports Inquirer.net.
Fewer Filipinos are satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, a recent survey by the Social Weather Station showed. However, fewer Filipinos are worried that they or people they know will become victims of extrajudicial killings, reports GMA News.
A Reuters special report says the Philippine police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings they have long blamed on vigilantes, said two senior officers who are critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drug," according to GMA News.
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