Vice President Leni Robredo (Source: AFP)
Philippine police have recommended sedition charges against Vice President Leni Robredo, opposition figures, Catholic Church leaders and opposition politicians for allegedly plotting to destabilize the Duterte government by implicating him in the narcotics trade. a move slammed Friday as an attempt to stifle dissent under President Rodrigo Duterte (See Yahoo News for story).
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping (Source: Yahoo News)
Filipinos are now even more distrustful of China, as shown by a survey that was taken after the West Philippine Sea boat sinking incident became public. The Social Weather Stations survey showed that 51 percent of Filipinos have “little trust,” in China, while 21 percent are undecided, and 27 percent have “much trust” in the Asian superpower (See story in Yahoo News)..
Undersecretary Severo Catura, executive director of the Presidential Human Rights Committee secretariat (Source: Yahoo News)
Thousands of Philippine police officers have received administrative punishments with more than 2,000 dismissed for wrongdoings during raids where drug suspects were killed under the president's crackdown, Communications Assistant Secretary Marie Rafael Banaag told a news conference. She said 7,867 of 14,724 police investigated for their involvement in police drug operations that led to deaths from July 2016 until last April received administrative punishments for unspecified lapses (See Yahoo News for story).
Sen. Risa Hontiveros
The Philippine president has signed a bill into law penalizing a range of acts of sexual harassment including catcalling, wolf-whistling and persistent telling of sexual jokes, which pro-women's groups have accused him of committing. The bill's main author, opposition Sen. Risa Hontiveros, has called the law a "massive victory" against a growing culture of rude sexist actions (See Yahoo News for story).
Joy Ongcachuy
Joy Ongcachuy, a Filipina lead robotic nurse working at the Royal London Hospital, was among those recently conferred the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Award by Prince Charles for acts of bravery as first responders to the June 3, 2017 London Bridge as well as the Manchester terror attacks (See Filipino Times for story).
Nilo Alcala
Nilo Alcala, a Philippine-born composer living in North Hollywood, California, has bagged the coveted American Prize in Composition 2019 in the choral division of major works, besting among other submissions across the United States (See Rappler for story).
Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III
Filipino priest Fr. Gerard Francisco Timoner III has been elected the new Master of the Order of Preachers (OP), more popularly known as the Dominicans (See Inquirer.net for story).
Philippine Coast Guard (Source Philstar)
A survey published by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that almost nine in 10 Filipinos think the Philippine government should “assert” its rights to the islands in the West Philippine Sea, as stipulated in the 2016 decision of a United Nations-backed arbitral tribunal (See Philstar.com for story).
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