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...Joe Biden will warn China about its increasingly aggressive activity in the South China Sea this week during summits with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr...
...Jose Manuel Romualdez, Philippine ambassador to the US, said Manila and Tokyo were close to signing a “reciprocal access agreement” (RAA) that would also let their militaries train and conduct exercises...
...The Philippines is looking to generate $100bn in investments from the trilateral meeting between President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the government...
...Havana-born pianist/composer Manuel Valera is best known for fusing the disparate strands of Latin jazz into a coherent whole....
...Ferguson, Jr federal courthouse on Monday even as authorities said no credible threats had been identified....
...Migration will feature heavily on the agenda at that meeting, especially in talks with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...“It was a shrewd speech that was aimed at the middle class, promising to leave them alone while addressing the common expectations for presidents to decide things for the public,” said Manuel Quezon, a columnist...
...“It’s huge news,” said John Padilla, managing director at IPD Latin America....
...More recently, the industry has come under renewed pressure in the wake of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s election victory....
...Duterte, the Filipino strongman, was also compelled to step down this year — although his daughter is now vice-president to Ferdinand Marcos Jr....
...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....
...“Its going to be interesting to see what exactly this whole . . . plan really entails,” said John Padilla, a partner at Latin America-based energy consultancy IPD....
...A romantic might credit the latter-day surge in big-screen, live-action musicals to the bright new energy of Lin-Manuel Miranda. That romantic would be mistaken....
...Latinx art is sprinkled across LA’s far-flung gallery scene, and it is evident in Frieze’s LA Viewing Room, opening this week, which features a number of Latinx artists, among them Mexican-born Manuel Solano...
...“This is the Putin formula: have the president run in the subordinate position with a compliant lackey as president,” said Manuel Quezon, a columnist for the Inquirer newspaper and a former official in the...
...The conversation with Mr Johnson on Saturday was his third involving a foreign leader since his inauguration on Wednesday, after he spoke with Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, and Andrés Manuel...
...And so creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda agreed to bring forward the streaming release on Disney+, a gift to a traumatised world, if one with an unavoidable note of melancholy. Still, those tunes!...
...(FT) López Obrador fails to recognise his women problem Andrés Manuel López Obrador spent International Women’s Day barricaded in the National Palace behind a wall guarded by riot police....
...And Lin-Manuel was just such an extraordinarily charismatic presence. He is one of the rare people who can do it all, has it all, and does it all well.”...
...Pemex has debts of some $105bn, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador considers it a national champion....
...Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's president, has stepped up his commitment to an $8bn refinery project, rejecting three private sector bids as too costly and vowing that state oil company Pemex will...
...John Padilla, managing director at energy consultancy IPD Latin America, said in a phone interview....
...“Every administration keeps on looking for the silver bullet, but the silver bullet is long gone,” said John Padilla, an energy consultant....
...By contrast, “profitability is not part of the discourse or strategy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador”, said John Padilla, managing director of IPD, an energy consultancy....
...John Padilla of IPD, an energy consultancy, noted that Pemex now spends “more on retirees than on employees”....
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