Between anxiety, addiction and evasion, Mexicans have found coping mechanisms to deal with the violence plaguing their country and which peaked in 2017 to the highest level in two decades.
The deployment of 10,000 cyber warriors to fight online dissent in Vietnam adds a grim “new dimension” to controls on free speech in the Communist country, a rights group has said.
Four Singaporean men were Friday charged over a scandal involving contracts for the metro worth almost Sg$10 million ($7.4 million), the latest problem to hit the financial hub’s train network.
The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday (December 29) ordered the Congress leadership and the Palace to comment on the petition seeking to nullify the one-year extension of martial law over Mindannao.
Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Friday (December 29) directed the National Bureau of Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate the deaths of two persons who were killed by police during an operation in Mandaluyong City on the night of December 28.
The Senate’s high satisfaction rating was a result of a “team effort”–from both pro-administration senators and their colleagues in the opposition.
Senator Nancy Binay has urged the police to be vigilant in preventing the entry in the market and use of illegal firecrackers and fireworks to avoid casualties during the celebration of New Year.
Solicitor General Jose Calida has described as ignorant the congressmen who asked the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the one-year extension of martial law in Mindanao.
The European Union is allocating €570,000 (P34 million) in humanitarian funding to deliver emergency relief assistance to families affected by powerful tropical storm “Vinta” which wreaked havoc across large parts of the southern Philippines just before Christmas.
Malacañang has accused two Filipino United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteurs of partisanship after they claimed that there have been human rights abuses against indigenous and internally displaced peoples in Mindanao.
