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...Bautista said that navies used sea channels around the Philippines in the second world war to gain critical access for naval battles....
...The first joint patrol kicked off on Tuesday near the island of Mavulis, the northernmost point of Philippine territory in the Bashi Channel just 100km south of Taiwan, and will move west into the South...
...The senior official said the US raised the importance of re-establishing the military-to-military channels that China shut down after then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year....
...Suffering in silence London’s wealthiest families often turn to Filipino workers for domestic help....
...According to analysis by Bellingcat, the Discord channels where some of the March documents were posted focused on the Minecraft computer game and fandom for a Filipino YouTube celebrity, before they spread...
...The files later circulated on several niche Discord channels — including one about the game ‘Minecraft’ and another for fans of a Filipino YouTube celebrity — before spreading to online forums 4Chan, Telegram...
...But now that Taiwan — just 200km to the north across the Bashi Channel — has become a flashpoint in the geopolitical struggle between China and the US, Batan is being redefined as a “key terrain” that both...
...A monitor lizard two yards long wriggles away into the undergrowth. Two hippos duck beneath the liquid brown silt of an ox-bowed river channel....
...On the third floor of Starmall, a shopping centre owned by Filipino billionaire Manuel Villar, three movie theatres were shut in July and are being converted into television studios....
...Fluorescent eyeshadows are at the daring end of the colour craze, while metallic glosses across the lid, such as the rosy glitter at Anna Sui, channel easy optimism....
...“The channels whereby the money was allegedly stolen were diverse, including the takeover of private companies; creation of monopolies for sugar, coconuts, shipping, construction and the media; fraudulent...
...Across the Channel, energy ministers from EU member states will this week meet in Brussels to decide measures to end the European reliance on Russian fuel supplies....
...Reading the analysis this week, I wonder whether the comments that Filipinos are among the world’s biggest users of social media — with all the problems in public discourse Twitter is blamed for — has contributed...
...A video uploaded on his YouTube channel, however, features the email address, attorney@marktolentinolaw.co, which appears in the exchanges with Marsalek....
...Instagram has been the main sales channel for Anna....
...The petition, filed on Monday at the supreme court claims ABS-CBN broke the law by launching a pay-per-view channel and violated a constitutional ban on foreign ownership....
...The National Telecommunications Commission issued an immediate “cease and desist” order against the channel that has long been targeted by President Rodrigo Duterte, who had called for the station to be...
...Today, the ties between the Asian neighbours remain strong, and Filipinos form a sizeable minority on the island, particularly in tourist-facing, English-speaking jobs....
...In recent years, the inability of housing agencies to implement projects on time prompted the government to cut their budgets and channel the funds elsewhere....
...Jonathan Miller, a veteran journalist with Channel 4, has written Duterte Harry, a deeply reported, vivid foreign correspondent’s account of the man’s rise to power and the first part of his presidency....
...Overnight we enter the Gerlache Strait, a 150km-long channel between the Antarctic Peninsula and the glaciated mountain islands of the Palmer Archipelago....
...The Filipino Florencio Campomanes was the first president to become an asset of Soviet intelligence, according to the former KGB lieutenant colonel Vladimir Popov; Campomanes repaid the Lubyanka’s help in...
...We believe Filipinos’ willingness to pay higher taxes indicates their confidence that the popular Mr Duterte will channel additional resources to respond to their needs....
...There is a risk this increase won’t boost government revenue if more of the rich channel their wealth elsewhere to avoid the higher rate....
...“Japan Tobacco is not so stupid considering they are obtaining the sales channel....
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