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  • Religious whipping marks Good Friday in the Philippines
    BULACAN: Catholic zealots in the Philippines whipped their backs bloody and raw on Good Friday, as the fervently religious country marked Easter with gruesome displays of faith. Scores of men — their faces covered — walked barefoot as they flogged themselves with bamboo whips under a blazing sun near the capital Manila, while others carried wooden crosses as they were beaten, in a ritual frowned upon by the Church, PH Iinquirer reported.Roy Balatbat, his skin still bearing fresh wounds from a public flailing on Thursday, walked for about a kilometer, striking himself and stopping to prostrate in prayer on the hot ground. “It’s punishing but if you have a wish, you will endure the pain,” Balatbat, 49, told AFP in Hagonoy municipality, Bulacan province. “I have been doing this for 30 years since I was a young man. My devotion is that I will only stop when I can’t do it anymore.” While most devotees in the mainly Catholic nation spend Good Friday at church or with family, others go to these extreme lengths to atone for sins or seek divine intervention.Before the grisly flogging begins, the men’s barebacks are deliberately punctured to make them bleed. Veterans of the gory spectacle display scars of previous whippings, while others endure the punishing act for the first time.
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    2022-04-17
  • 5% of Japan firms based overseas impacted by Ukraine crisis: poll
    [Blazing fire and black smoke rise from an oil storage facility in Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 26, 2022, following missile strikes in the war against Russia. (Photo by=Kyodo)] TOKYO: Fifty-five percent of Japanese companies based overseas have had their business operations impacted, or foresee they will be impacted, by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a recent survey by a Japanese staffing firm showed, Kyodo reported.The online survey of 699 Japanese entities across 10 economies, conducted by Pasona Group Inc. in mid-March, found that firms based in France were by far the most affected with 92.3 percent responding they had been impacted in some way. As the only European country included in the survey, this was followed by Malaysia at 72.0 percent and Singapore at 66.7 percent. Of the 55 percent of the overseas-based firms, 43.2 percent said they already feel the effects of the conflict, while 22.7 percent said they expect to do so within a month and 26.8 percent within three months. The most cited impact among the 43.2 percent was soaring costs of raw materials including oil, chemicals and metals. This was followed by rising logistics costs and energy prices.The economies covered by the March 11 to 16 survey were the United States, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and India. The manufacturing sector made up the biggest group of companies at 43.6 percent, followed by trading houses at 20.7 percent and retailers and wholesalers at 9.9 percent.
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    2022-04-04
  • China reports highest COVID-19 new daily cases since Feb 2020
    [Police and security members in protective suits stand outside cordoned off food stores following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China March 29, 2022. (File photo by=REUTERS/Aly Song)] BEIJING: China on Sunday (Apr 3) reported a total of 13,287 new daily cases for Apr 2, the highest level since February 2020, with the majority in northeastern Jilin province and the financial hub of Shanghai which has virtually locked down the entire city. The country reported 1,506 confirmed coronavirus cases in the previous day, the national health authority said on Sunday, down from 2,129 a day earlier. But the number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, surged to 11,781 on Saturday compared with 7,869 a day earlier. Of the new confirmed cases, 1,455 were locally transmitted, with 956 detected from Jilin and 438 from Shanghai. Shanghai, home of 25 million people, will carry out city-wide antigen testing on Sunday and mass nucleic acid testing on Monday, a senior official from the Shanghai health authority said at a press conference on Sunday.Chinese Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan on Saturday also urged Shanghai city to "make resolute and swift moves" to curb the pandemic. The city has been striving to stop the outbreak by imposing a two-stage lockdown, prompting manufacturers to halt operations and causing severe congestion at Shanghai port, the world's biggest container transporting hub.
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    2022-04-04
  • China to cut paper and wood tariffs from New Zealand from April 7
    [Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai, China October 19, 2020. (File photo by=REUTERS/Aly Song)] BEIJING: China will implement an upgrade to the free trade agreement between Beijing and Wellington to eliminate tariffs of 12 wood and paper products imported from New Zealand from Apr 7, the Ministry of Finance said on Sunday (Apr 3), Reuters reported.The move follows the deal signed by the two governments in January to upgrade their existing free trade pact, allowing 99 per cent of New Zealand's US$3 billion wood and paper trade to China to receive tariff-free access over a 10-year implementation period. Import tariffs for products such as toilet or facial tissue stock and paper used for writing will be reduced to 6.8 percent and 4.5 percent from April 7 from current rates of 7.5 percent and 5 percent, respectively, and will be gradually cut over the next 10 years to reach zero."2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between China and New Zealand and April 7th is the 14th anniversary of the signing of the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA)," the finance ministry said in the statement. China has eliminated or reduced tariffs on 75 wood and paper tariff lines for New Zealand products since the existing FTA entered into force in 2008.
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    2022-04-04
  • Taliban bans drug cultivation, including lucrative opium
    [An Afghan man works on a poppy field in Jalalabad province April 17, 2014. (File photo by=REUTERS/ Parwiz )] KABUL: The Taliban announced on Sunday (Apr 3) a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer, Reuters reported."As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country," according to an order from the Taliban's supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada. If anyone violates the decree, the crop will be destroyed immediately and the violator will be treated according to the Sharia law," the order, announced at a news conference by the Ministry of Interior in Kabul, said. The order said the production, use or transportation of other narcotics was also banned. Drug control has been one major demand of the international community of the Islamist group, which took over the country in August and is seeking formal international recognition in order to wind back sanctions that are severely hampering banking, business and development.The Taliban banned poppy growing towards the end of their last rule in 2000 as they sought international legitimacy, but faced a popular backlash and later mostly changed their stance, according to experts.
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    2022-04-04
  • Pakistan heads for early election amid move to remove PM Imran Khan
    [Imran Khan, elected in July 2018 vowing to tackle corruption and fix the economy, remains popular with some voters, even though a lot of his public support has been lost as a result of rocketing inflation and ballooning foreign debt. (Photo by= Getty Images)] Pakistan's president has dissolved parliament - a step towards early elections - following an attempt to remove PM Imran Khan from office, BBC reported. It comes after parliament's deputy speaker refused to hold a vote of no-confidence the PM was expected to lose. Mr Khan claims the US is leading a conspiracy to remove him because of his criticism of US policy and other foreign policy decisions he has taken.Opposition politicians ridicule the allegation, and the US has denied it. Imran Khan visited Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin as Russia was launching the invasion of Ukraine, He has previously criticised America's "War on Terror". The BBC's Secunder Kermani says prime minister is widely regarded as having come to power with the help of Pakistan's army, but now observers say they have fallen out. In public, however, both the military and Mr Khan deny there has been any falling out. His political opponents seized the opportunity to demand the no-confidence vote after persuading a number of his coalition partners to defect to them.There have been only two previous instances in Pakistan's political history when sitting prime ministers faced a vote of no confidence, and both times Benazir Bhutto, in 1989, and Shaukat Aziz, in 2006, emerged unscathed.
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  • Ukraine war: Putin being misled by fearful advisers, US says
    [The US and UK say Putin is being misinformed by his advisers. (Photo by= Reuters)] Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misled by advisers who are too scared to tell him how badly the war in Ukraine is going, the White House says. Meanwhile, British intelligence says Russian troops in Ukraine are demoralized, short of equipment, and refusing to carry out orders. Mr. Putin is also not being told about the full impact of sanctions on the Russian economy, the White House said, BBC reported. The Kremlin said the US had a "total misunderstanding" of the situation. Mr Putin's chief spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told journalists: "They simply don't understand what's happening in the Kremlin, they don't understand President Putin, they don't understand how decisions are taken and they don't understand the style of our work." This was worrying, he added, "because such total misunderstanding leads to wrong decisions which have bad consequences. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby called the assessments "discomforting", because an uninformed Putin could result in a "less than faithful" effort at ending the conflict through peace negotiations. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces have begun attempts to retake some areas from Russia, which on Tuesday said it would scale back operations around Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv. On the ground, US and Ukrainian officials say Russia is continuing to reposition forces away from Kyiv, probably as part of its effort to refocus on eastern regions.
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    2022-04-01
  • China almost done with airline crash search and rescue, working on report
    [Rescue workers walk at the site where a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane flying from Kunming to Guangzhou crashed, in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. (File photo by= Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)] BEIJING: China has completed the main search and rescue work at the site of a China Eastern Airlines plane crash last week, and plans to complete a preliminary report within 30 days of the event, an aviation official said on Thursday (Mar 31), Reuters reported. A final report into the crash of the Boeing 737-800 will be completed and made public after the investigation is concluded, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) safety head Zhu Tao told reporters. The plane crashed into a mountainside in southern China on March 21, killing all 132 people on board. Under international rules, a 30-day report must be lodged with the UN aviation agency ICAO but it does not need to be public. A final report is due within a year of the crash, though sometimes it can take longer. CAAC investigators are also working to decode the data from both the black boxes, he added. Investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board are set to travel to China to support the CAAC's investigation into mainland China's deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years. Over 40,000 pieces of aircraft wreckage and debris have been found and a majority of the pieces have been transported to a hangar, Zhu said.
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    2022-04-01
  • French intelligence chief Vidaud fired over Russian war failings
    [Gen Eric Vidaud was commander of special forces until he took on the military intelligence role seven months ago. (Photo by= ECPAD)] The head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, loses his job after failing to predict Russia's war in Ukraine, reports say. Seven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for "inadequate briefings" and a "lack of mastery of subjects", BBC reported. The US correctly assessed that Russia was planning a large-scale invasion, while France concluded it was unlikely. Gen Vidaud was blamed for that by France's military chief, a source said. However, the military source told the AFP news agency that his job was to provide "military intelligence on operations, not on premeditation". As Gen Vidaud's service concluded that Russia had the means to invade Ukraine, the source said that "what happened proves him right". Early in March the head of French armed forces, Gen Thierry Burkhard acknowledged that French intelligence had not been up to the level of US or UK briefings, which were publicized to pile pressure on Russia's Vladimir Putin. France's misreading of President Putin was all the more embarrassing because President Emmanuel Macron had spoken to him regularly in the days leading up to the invasion on 24 February. Intelligence specialist Prof Alexandre Papaemmanuel told AFP it’s too easy to blame military intelligence for the failure, which lay with France's entire intelligence community.
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    2022-04-01
  • PH ranked fourth globally in ‘crony capitalism’
    [Makati skyline (File photo by=GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE / Philippine Daily Inquirer)] MANILA: With President Rodrigo Duterte as its chief executive, the Philippines remained among the countries where crony capitalism — where a few favored businessmen close to the government enjoy more economic advantages than others — has been flourishing PH Inquirer reported. The Economist’s latest crony-capitalism index showed that the wealth of billionaires in the Philippines surpassed 10 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021. As a share to GDP last year, nearly a tenth were wealth generated in sectors regarded as crony-friendly. The Economist defined crony sectors as “a host of industries that are vulnerable to rent-seeking because of their proximity to the state, such as banking, casinos, defense, extractive industries and construction.” In the Philippines, “crony sectors still account for four-fifths of total billionaire wealth,” The Economist said in an article this month.The Philippines ranked fourth in the world in crony capitalism, just behind No. 1 Russia, and neighboring Malaysia and Singapore. In The Economist’s previous ranking in 2016, the Philippines was in third place behind Russia and Malaysia
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    2022-04-01
  • Ukraine: GCHQ chief warns China over 'alignment' with Russia
    [Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping at a meeting in Brazil in 2019. (Photo by= Reuters)] China should not become "too closely aligned" with Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, the head of UK cyber-intelligence GCHQ has warned. Sir Jeremy Fleming said China's long-term interests are not served by an alliance with Moscow, BBC reported. In a rare public address during a visit to Australia, Sir Jeremy also said Russia had "massively misjudged" the situation in Ukraine. He said Vladimir Putin's advisers are "afraid to tell him the truth". Sir Jeremy said China's aspirations to become a leading player on the global stage were "not well served by a close alliance with a regime that wilfully and illegally ignores" international rules. The speech at the Australian National University in Canberra comes after Downing Street said Boris Johnson had a "frank and candid" discussion with China's President Xi Jinping last week. He said the Kremlin regards China in the current crisis as a supplier of weapons, technology, and a potential market for its oil and gas. But Sir Jeremy suggested President Xi has a "more nuanced" view of the relationship. Meanwhile, echoing comments from US and Ukrainian officials, the GCHQ boss said Mr. Putin "underestimated the strength of the coalition his actions would galvanize. "He underplayed the economic consequences of the sanctions regime. He over-estimated the abilities of his military to secure a rapid victory."
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    2022-04-01
  • Human rights coalition wants sanctions for Duterte, other Philippine officials
    [President Rodrigo Duterte at a meeting with members of his pandemic task force on December 6, 2021. (Photo from Presidential Communications Facebook page)] MANILA: A coalition of rights groups launched Tuesday a campaign to urge foreign governments to impose sanctions on President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine officials for allegedly violating human rights. The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines said in a statement that it will be working with the national governments of Australia, Canada, the US, the UK, and the European Union for the imposition of Magnitsky sanctions on Philippines officials, PhilStar reported.“In the absence so far of genuine accountability for these crimes through international mechanisms, such as the International Criminal Court and the UN Human Rights Council, ICHRP is launching a global campaign under national Magnitsky Acts to hold those responsible accountable for these widely documented crimes,” it said. Countries that have Magnitsky laws may impose punishment, ranging from travel bans to financial sanctions, on foreign nationals responsible for human rights violations or corruption in a foreign country. The US was the first to enact a Magnitsky law in 2012, three years after Sergei Magnitsky, a tax advisor who exposed corruption among Russian government officials, died while in prison.Aside from Duterte, the coalition is calling for sanctions on Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, both of whom ICHRP described as “architects of the war on drugs and campaign of state terror.”
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    2022-03-30
  • Philippines reiterates sovereignty over Panatag as China claims it as 'inherent territory'
    [This handout photo taken on March 2, 2022, and released by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on March 27, shows a Philippine coast guard personnel (R) monitoring a Chinese coast guard ship shadowing their vessel while conducting a maritime patrol in Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. (Photo from Handout / Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) / AFP)] MANILA: The Philippine government on Tuesday reiterated that it has sovereignty over Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal or Bajo de Masinloc after China insisted it is part of its inherent territory. "The Philippine position is we continue to exercise full sovereignty over Bajo de Masinloc and its territorial sea, as well as sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the surrounding EEZ and continental shelf," acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar said in a statement, PhilStar reported.Andanar's remarks came after Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin claimed that Beijing has sovereignty over Panatag Shoal, which the Chinese call Huangyan Dao. Rejecting a UNCLOS-backed court's arbitral ruling that Panatag Shoal is a traditional fishing ground open to all, Wang further insisted that Beijing also has sovereignty over its adjacent waters. The tribunal also concluded that China failed to respect the traditional fishing rights of Filipino fishermen by blocking access to the shoal off the coast of Zambales."We hope that the Philippine ships will earnestly respect China’s sovereignty and rights and interests, abide by China’s domestic law and international law, and avoid interfering with the patrol and law enforcement of the China Coast Guard in the above-mentioned waters," Wang said in a press briefing Monday.
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    2022-03-30
  • PH’s Taal Volcano records 3 eruptions, 8 quakes in 24-hour monitoring
    [A screengrab of the Phivolcs press conference presentation showed an IP camera relapse of phreatomagmatic activity at the Taal main crater that began 7:22 AM of March 26, 2022, and abated at 8:59AM. (Photo from Phivolcs)] MANILA: The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said Tuesday it has recorded three phreatomagmatic explosions and eight volcanic earthquakes at the Taal Volcano in a 24-hour monitoring period. Phreatomagmatic activity occurs when magma, or the hot, molten material from beneath the earth’s surface, interacts with water, PH Inquirer reported.Pagasa said in a bulletin issued 8 a.m. on Tuesday that the phreatomagmatic bursts from the main crater were recorded at 9:30 a.m., 9:33 a.m., and 9:46 a.m. on Monday. According to the agency, these events produced plumes reaching 400 to 800 meters that drifted southwest. Meanwhile, the eight volcanic earthquakes consist of a five-minute volcanic tremor and seven low-frequency volcanic earthquakes. “Activity at the main crater was dominated by upwelling of hot volcanic fluids in its lake which generated plumes 2,400 meters tall that drifted southwest. Sulfur dioxide emission averaged 4,273 tonnes/day on 28 March 2022. Temperature highs of 63.7°C were last measured from the Main Crater Lake on 25 February 2022,” Phivolcs reported.Alert Level 3 was raised over the Taal Volcano on Saturday after it showed a series of short phreatomagmatic bursts, which means there is a “magmatic intrusion” at the main crater “that may further drive succeeding eruptions.”
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    2022-03-30
  • Biden says 'moral outrage' behind Putin comment, not US policy change
    [United States President Joe Biden announces his budget proposal for the fiscal year 2023, as Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Shalanda Young listens, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington on Mar 28, 2022. (Photo by=Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)] WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden on Monday (Mar 28) said that his remark that Russian President Vladimir Putin should not remain in power reflected his own moral outrage at Russia's invasion of Ukraine, not the US policy shift, Reuters reported. Biden faced pressure to speak about the comment after it generated a flood of questions as to whether the United States had changed to a policy seeking regime change in Moscow. "I wasn't then nor am I now articulating a policy change. I was expressing moral outrage that I felt, and I make no apologies," he told reporters at the White House. He said that his outburst, made at the end of a major address about Ukraine in Warsaw on Saturday, had been prompted by an emotional visit he had with families displaced by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At the end of his speech in the Polish capital, Biden added an unscripted line, saying that Putin "cannot remain in power". Administration officials rushed to clarify afterward that the White House wasn’t advocating for regime change in Russia. Biden on Monday said that he’s "not walking anything back" by clarifying the remark. Asked whether the remark would spur a negative response from Putin, Biden said: "I don’t care what he thinks ... He’s going to do what he’s going to do."
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    2022-03-30
  • Renewed infrastructure agreement between Singapore, US expanded to include green projects
    [A general view shows the skyline of the central business district in Singapore on Oct 20, 2021. (Photo by= AFP/Roslan Rahman)] WASHINGTON: Singapore and the United States on Tuesday (Mar 29) renewed an agreement to deepen cooperation in infrastructure development while expanding the deal to include green projects in the region. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry's (MTI) permanent secretary Gabriel Lim and Mr. Scott Nathan, chief executive officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), CNA reported. The signing took place on the sidelines of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's working visit to the US, which began on Mar 26 and will end on Apr 2. First signed in 2019, the MOU aimed to strengthen collaboration between the infrastructure agencies of both countries so as to promote infrastructure trade and investment. Besides expanding the collaboration to cover green and sustainable infrastructure projects in the region, the new MOU will also explore new approaches to mobilize private sector participation. "Both countries will also strengthen collaboration through information sharing, deal facilitation, capability building initiatives, and by supporting potential infrastructure projects in the region, in expanded areas of mutual interest," said MTI, citing renewable energy and carbon capture as examples of these new areas. "Singapore and US companies can look forward to more infrastructure development and financing opportunities to unlock Asia's potential," it added.
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