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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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  • Hong Kong government to resume services on Apr 1 as city logs lowest infections in a month
    [People wearing face masks walk past an advertisement board, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Hong Kong, China, Mar 25, 2022. (Photo by=REUTERS/Tyrone Siu)] HONG KONG: Hong Kong will gradually resume public services from Apr 1, the government said on Friday (Mar 25), with the global financial hub posting its lowest number of daily infections in about a month. Government departments will return to normal service by Apr 21, it said in a statement, part of a broader easing of strict coronavirus measures which have created widespread frustration for residents and businesses, Reuters reported. Leader Carrie Lam this week announced the lifting of measures including a ban on dining in restaurants after 6 pm, and the reopening of most public venues and sports facilities. Schools are also due to resume face-to-face classes by Apr 19. Many people in the Chinese-ruled territory have been working from home since February when a wave of the highly transmissible Omicron variant swept through the city. The government's announcement signals that many of Hong Kong's 7.4 million residents will return to offices in line with civil servants' guidelines. Health authorities reported 10,405 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, down from 13,074 the previous day. The city hit a record high of over 58,000 infections on Mar 9. Since the pandemic began in 2020, Hong Kong has recorded more than 1.1 million infections and more than 6,700 deaths - most of them in the past month.
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    2022-03-26
  • Solomon Islands: Possible China security pact causes Australia concern
    [The Solomon Islands has seen rioting and political unrest in recent months. (Photo by= Getty Images)] Australia says it would be concerned if China signed a pact that could let it establish a military presence in the Solomon Islands. Leaked documents purport to show plans for a security deal between China and the Pacific nation, which lies about 2,000km (1,200 miles) from Australia, BBC reported. The ABC and Reuters report they have verified the draft document as genuine. Australia has long been concerned over Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific, its nearest neighbors. On Friday, Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton denied a suggestion his country had "dropped the ball" in the region.''The leaked papers set out a framework that could allow Beijing to deploy forces to "protect the safety of Chinese personnel and major projects in the Solomon Islands". The tiny Pacific nation could also "request China to send police, armed police, military personnel, and other law enforcement and armed forces", according to the document. There is also provision for China to "make ship visits, to carry out logistical replenishment in, and have stopover and transition in the Solomon Islands". The Solomon Islands government has drawn closer to China in recent times, establishing formal diplomatic ties in 2019 and ditching its links with Taiwan. But Australia has traditionally been its main security provider, regional power, and source of financial aid.
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    2022-03-26
  • Second black box of crashed China Eastern jet not found yet: Xinhua
    [Workers carry a case 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 March 24, 2022. (Photo by= REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)] BEIJING: China's official Xinhua News Agency said on Friday (Mar 25) that the second black box of the crashed China Eastern jet has yet to be found. Earlier, CAAC News, a publication managed by the country's aviation regulator, said that China had found the second black box, but it later deleted the news post from its official social media platforms, Reuters reported. Search and rescue work in the wake of the crash had entered its fourth day as storm clouds retreated with efforts focusing on retrieving the second black box while the first was being decoded and analyzed in Beijing. Emergency workers on the ground have been scouring the forest-clad mountains of China's southern Guangxi region for victims of Flight MU5735. No survivors have been found so far in a tragedy that has shocked the nation. Rescuers recovered the first of the two black boxes on Wednesday. The device, the plane's cockpit voice recorder, has been sent to Beijing. It could take 10 to 15 days to arrive at a preliminary analysis, and longer before a final conclusion can be presented in a report, according to Chinese state media. Additionally, the investigation is being led by China, but the United States was invited to take part because the Boeing 737-800 was designed and manufactured there.
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    2022-03-26
  • Drunk driver sentenced to 14 years in prison for killing 2 kids
    [Umezawa drank alcohol at a rest area on an expressway during work around 3 p.m. on June 28, 2021, before driving on a street in Yachimata around 3:30 p.m., where he dozed off and crashed into a group of school children, according to the indictment. (File photo taken on June 28, 2021 by= Kyodo)] CHIBA: A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a 61-year-old man to 14 years in prison for a drunk-driving accident that left two elementary school children dead and three others severely injured near Tokyo last year, Kyodo reported. The Chiba District Court found Hiroshi Umezawa guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol when he crashed into a group of pupils heading home from school on a street in Yachimata, Chiba Prefecture, in June last year. In the trial, prosecutors condemned Umezawa for what they said was one of Japan's worst-ever cases of drunk driving, demanding 15 years in prison for him. The families of the victims also asked for severe punishment. Umezawa admitted to the charge of dangerous driving resulting in injury or death and apologized to the bereaved families. The defense counsel asked for leniency, saying he is remorseful. Prosecutors pointed out that Umezawa often drove under the influence of alcohol, drinking even while working. Before causing the accident, he drank 220 milliliters of "shochu" distilled liquor he had bought at a convenience store, they said. Alcohol in excess of the legal limit was detected when he took a breathalyzer test after the accident, police said. Two boys, aged 7 and 8, respectively, were killed in the accident while two other boys and a girl were seriously injured.
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    2022-03-26
  • Energy consumers vow to boost energy security amid Ukraine crisis
    [Japan's economy, trade and industry minister Koichi Hagiuda (2nd from L) attends a meeting of the International Energy Agency on March 24, 2022, in Paris. (Photo courtesy of the ministry via Kyodo)] TOKYO: Ministers from energy-consuming countries pledged Thursday to diversify energy sources and supply routes as part of efforts to strengthen energy security as international sanctions on Russia, a major gas and oil producer, for its invasion of Ukraine have prompted surges in energy prices on fears about supply disruptions, Kyodo reported. Energy and climate ministers from member nations of the International Energy Agency, including the United States, Japan, and the other Group of Seven countries, also agreed to speed up their efforts to shift to renewable energy in a communique issued after their two-day meeting in Paris. The ministers affirmed "energy reliability and affordability" is vital for successful clean energy transitions and vowed to accelerate such energy shifting "as a lasting solution to prevent energy price spikes, such as the recent ones." The biennial ministerial gathering of the 31-member IEA came as Western countries aim to reduce their energy reliance on Russia, a non-IEA member. Russia is the world's third-largest oil producer and the second-biggest natural gas producer, according to the Paris-based agency. Koichi Hagiuda, minister of economy, trade and industry, and Kiyoshi Odawara, senior vice foreign minister, represented Japan at the Paris meeting, according to the government.
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    2022-03-26
  • US-Philippines Balikatan exercises this year to be 'largest-ever'
    [A U.S. Marine Corps UH-1Y Venom with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 (HMLA-369) lands on the USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) ahead of Balikatan 22 on Mar. 17, 2022. The Miguel Keith, a Lewis B. Puller-class Expeditionary Mobile Base Ship, is a highly flexible platform that provides logistics movement from sea to shore supporting a broad range of military operations.U.S. (Photo from Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kallahan Morris)] MANILA: The Philippines and the United States will kick off the largest-ever joint military drills in the archipelago nation next week, US officials said Tuesday, showing off their strong defense ties in the face of growing Chinese assertiveness. Nearly 9,000 Filipino and American soldiers will take part in the 12-day war games on the main island of Luzon, which are usually an annual affair but were canceled or curbed during the pandemic, PhilStar reported.The exercises, which start March 28, will cover among other things maritime security, live-fire training, counterterrorism, humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief, the US embassy said in a statement. "(Both sides) will train together to expand and advance shared tactics, techniques and procedures that strengthen our response capabilities and readiness for real-world challenges," said Major General Jay Bargeron, commander of the US 3rd Marine Division. Recent maneuvers between the longtime allies have focused on potential conflict in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims almost in its entirety.China has ignored a 2016 ruling by The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration that its historical claim is without basis. It has reinforced its stance by building artificial islands over some contested reefs and installing weapons on them.
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    2022-03-25
  • Duterte says he wants to talk to next president about drug war
    [President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during the ceremonial signing of the amendments to the Public Service Act and presentation of various enacted laws at the Malacañang Palace on March 21, 2022. (Photo by King Rodriguez/ Presidential Photo)] MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte wants to talk to his successor about the drug menace, a problem that he said causes insanity and crimes. Duterte, whose controversial drug war has claimed the lives of more than 6,000 suspects, said he would advise the next president to kill people involved in the narcotics trade, PhilStar reported."I hope, after the elections and a new President shall have been elected, I said there’s a time for us to — me to bring, invite him here," Duterte said during a pre-recorded public address aired Tuesday. “Perhaps I would tell my successor, kill them," he added.Duterte said many Filipinos would be affected if illegal drugs reach the streets. “The problem is it induces insanity among people," he said, adding that narcotics cause people to kill, rob, and other unlawful activities. The problem is it induces insanity among people," he said, adding that narcotics cause people to kill, rob, and other unlawful activities.About 160 kilos of shabu worth P1 billion were seized during the raid. he added. Authorities also confiscated P12 billion worth of shabu and arrested ten persons in an operation in Infanta, Quezon last March 16.
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    2022-03-25
  • PH public urged to report vote buying incidents to Comelec
    [This file photo shows the Commission on Elections headquarters in Manila. (Photo by=AJ Bolando/ Philstar)] MANILA: The Commission on Elections on Wednesday urged the public to report vote-buying incidents to the poll body. Commissioner George Garcia said the Comelec will create a task force to probe vote-buying incidents. The poll body also ordered field personnel to investigate reports, PhilStar reported.“Please file the necessary complaints so that at least we can study the evidence presented. We can require the respondent to answer the allegations thrown against them,” Garcia said in an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel. “We will be needing these reports not only to sanction field personnel… but at the same time, we’d like to strengthen the evidence that may be presented to us in the event a formal case will be filed or in the event Comelec conducts a motu proprio investigation,” he said.The Comelec official stressed cases should not be based on news reports. “We should file cases based on concrete evidence as presented.” Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla on Tuesday handed out cash prizes to supporters attending a sortie of Uniteam bets, saying the campaign period for local bets has yet to start.
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    2022-03-25
  • Madeleine Albright: First female US secretary of state dies
    [Albright went on to work at the White House during the Jimmy Carter administration and later as a foreign policy adviser to a number of vice-presidential and presidential candidates. (Photo by= Getty Images)] Madeleine Albright, a Czech immigrant who went on to become the first female secretary of state in US history, has died aged 84. A long-time foreign policy veteran, Albright became America's top diplomat in 1997 during the Clinton government, BBC reported. Often hailed as "a champion of democracy", Albright was instrumental in efforts to end ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Her death from cancer was confirmed by her family in a statement. "She was surrounded by family and friends," the statement said. "We lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend." Among those to pay tribute to her after the announcement of her death were former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who later followed in her footsteps as Secretary of State. "Few leaders have been so perfectly suited for the times in which they served," the Clintons said. "Because she knew first-hand that America's policy decisions had the power to make a difference in people's lives around the world, she saw her jobs as both an obligation and an opportunity." Born Marie Jana Korbelova in Prague in 1937, formerly Czechoslovakia, Albright was the daughter of a Czechoslovak diplomat who was forced into exile after the occupation of his country by Nazi Germany in 1939. She moved to the US in 1948, the same year her family applied for political asylum, arguing of being unable to return home as opponents of their country's communist regime. She became a US citizen in 1957.
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    2022-03-25
  • Western leaders meet to discuss Ukraine support
    [President Biden is expected to discuss natural gas supplies, as the EU moves to reduce exposure to Russia. (Photo by= Reuters)] US President Joe Biden joins fellow Western leaders in Brussels on Thursday for three summits on Russia's war in Ukraine, a month after the invasion began. Nato, the G7, and the EU are all holding meetings, in a display of unity rarely seen by the West, BBC reported, BBC reported. Mr. Biden will take part in all three, the first-ever visit by a US president to an EU summit in Brussels. But his visit to Brussels isn’t just about symbolism. Nato's 30 presidents and prime ministers will agree to greater support for Ukraine and new troop deployments for Eastern allies. Their aim is to show solidarity to Kyiv, though only up to a point. Many, but not all, have been willing to supply weapons. The UK said it would use both the G7 and Nato meetings to "substantively increase defensive lethal aid to Ukraine". But the alliance has also made clear it won't become more directly involved and Mr. Zelensky's repeated requests for a no-fly zone over Ukraine were ignored. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has given the Western defensive alliance Nato a renewed sense of purpose. And as the EU attempts to sever energy ties with Russia, it needs to forge and reinforce other relationships, particularly with the US. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was due to appear by video link at all three summits.
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