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by Siavosh Ghazi Agence France-Presse SAR-E POL-E ZAHAB, Iran (AFP) — Thousands of Iranians on Tuesday spent a third night in the cold as authorities scrambled to help those made homeless by a major earthquake that killed more than 400 people. As the country marked a day of mourning, President Hassan Rouhani promised swift help following the 7.3-magnitude quake that struck a mountainous region spanning the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday. Volunteers also rushed to help after […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — UN member-states on Tuesday condemned North Korea for gross human rights violations and for conducting missile and nuclear tests while its people suffer from severe hunger. The UN General Assembly’s human rights committee adopted by consensus a resolution drafted by the European Union and Japan that expressed international concern over Pyongyang’s rights record. The measure will now go to the General Assembly for debate next month. North Korea conducted its sixth […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he ran for the presidency because the Supreme Court issued what he believed to be an erroneous decision on the citizenship of foundlings. “No offense to Senator Grace Poe,” Duterte said. Duterte, a lawyer, said he believes that while foundlings cannot not have a citizenship, “it follows that when you were naturalized, you are not a Filipino citizen.” He said he believed natural-born citizens are those who came […]
(Eagle News) – Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday night (November 14) officially handed over the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong who will be hosting the ASEAN Summit next year. The official hand-over of the ASEAN chairmanship was done as the Philippines concluded the 31st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits and brought its regional meeting of 21 world leaders to a close. During […]
(Eagle News) — “What happened to the right to be heard?” This was what President Rodrigo Duterte said he told Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Council President Donald Tusk when the issue of human rights was raised in separate instances. “Sabi ko sa kaniya, did it not occur to you, wonder why, ang pinapakita nila extrajudicial killings, di makaproduce when, what happened, how?” Duterte said he told Trudeau. Earlier, Trudeau said he raised “human […]
(Eagle News) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed on Tuesday a landmark agreement that will ensure the protection of migrant workers in the region, a pact President Rodrigo Duterte, this year’s ASEAN chair, said was the fulfillment of a promise to ASEAN peoples. The signing ceremony of the ASEAN Consensus on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers was held, as the 31st ASEAN Summit and Related Summits drew to […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, November 13, said he is mulling more investments from India, particularly in the manufacture of cheaper medicine. President Duterte held a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. “We want to discuss trade relations further and especially, the most important one is that… and I’m happy that you’re here because if we can’t find the […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will help in regulating the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh admitted that the ASEAN cannot resolve the issue alone. Minh also said that the ASEAN and China should follow the agreements signed by the member-states and China since 2002. https://youtu.be/j8fMfpSCjp0
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday strong US ties with the Philippines were vital for military reasons. The US president said he had repaired relations with the Philippines, which soured last year during the administration of former president Barack Obama. Duterte blasted Obama for intervening in Philippine affairs when he criticized the Philippine president’s drug war. “The (Philippines’) relationship with the past administration was horrible, to use a nice word. I would say horrible is […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday underscored the need for the implementation of a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, noting that such could “provide size and scale to unleash new growth potentials and write the rules of the game of the international trade order.” In his speech at the start of the RCEP Summit, Duterte, who is this year’s ASEAN chair, said that “when it enters into force,” the RCEP would be “one of […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China now has more high-performance supercomputers than ever before, again besting the United States in global rankings, a supercomputer tracking organization said. The standing corresponds to China’s growing reputation as the global leader in supercomputers, as the Asian power prepares to launch in June 2018 a prototype exascale computing machine — a “super supercomputer.” Some 202 of the world’s fastest supercomputers are in China — compared with 143 in the US […]
Donald Trump hailed a “tremendously successful” five-nation tour of Asia in which he made a lot of friends. The US president, who began his journey in Japan 12 days ago, said his trip had seen progress in his goal of narrowing America’s yawning trade deficits. “I’ve made a lot of friends at the highest levels,” Trump told reporters shortly before boarding Air Force One in Manila, adding the trip was “tremendously successful.” “I think […]
