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...Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, the new Philippine president who assumes power at the end of the month, promised during the campaign to bring down the price of rice by imposing a cap on the grain....
...Marcos Jr has sought to reassure markets by naming a technocratic economic team headed by Benjamin Diokno, the central bank governor....
...“My father built more and better roads, produced more rice than all administrations before his,” Marcos Jr said, wearing a white barong, a traditional Filipino shirt....
...Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, will be sworn in on June 30....
...I loved the column by our Delhi bureau chief John Reed on whether we should now be calling India “Bharat”. We have not heard the last of this....
...Presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr and his running mate Sara Duterte, President Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter, held a commanding lead over their rival Leni Robredo, incumbent vice-president...
...Early results showed Ferdinand (“Bongbong”) Marcos Jr, son of the late dictator, was on track to win Monday’s Philippine presidential election by a large margin, after a campaign run in tandem with Sara...
...Duterte is due to cede power on June 30 to Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, whose vice-president will be the outgoing president’s daughter, Sara Duterte....
...Filipinos are now asking what kind of president Marcos Jr will be....
...Marc FilippinoMarcos Jr will replace populist strongman Rodrigo Duterte. John Reed says not to expect much change on foreign policy....
...When asked whether Marcos Jr played a role in his father’s dictatorship, Rodriguez said: “Marcos, Jr will not dignify with an answer . . . such a question because the Filipino people had long settled with...
...Plus, a look at the new president of the Philippines, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr....
...Rodrigo Duterte’s presidential term expires in mid-2022, and early opinion polling shows Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr as the clear leader among candidates....
...Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, has entered his candidacy to run as president, most likely on a ticket with Sara Duterte....
...Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Fadoul, a Moroccan avatar of James Brown, belting his way through “Ahl Jedba” with rock drums and a reed instrument buzzing in the background like a tiny mosquito....
...Nowhere is that made clearer than in people’s attitudes towards the vaccine,” says Reed Tuckson, a doctor who works with Fitzpatrick in the Black Coalition Against Covid-19 campaign group....
...Additional reporting by Minnie Advincula in Manila Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...“You became a ‘go to’ place for us and over time we felt more and more like we were going to see friends,” John Pumphrey, a customer, said in an email to Carol....
...“I think it’s like the Chinese are invading us,” said Federico Cruz Jr, a convenience store worker who delivers lunches to Chinese employees of an online gaming firm in Paranaque, one of the neighborhoods...
...John Weaver, a Republican strategist who had worked in the past on the presidential campaigns of Senator John McCain and the former Ohio governor John Kasich, told me over an early-morning Zoom call — in...
...JOHN KERNAN: And there are sneaker resellers that we've seen, they're earning several hundred thousand dollars a year....
...Teddy Locsin Jr, the foreign minister, said it was “contemptible” and “condemnable” that the crew of the Philippine boat had been left to the elements by the Chinese....
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