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TAIPEI, Feb 22, 2024 (AFP) – The chairman of the US House of Representatives committee on China accused Beijing of “bullying” Taiwan, as he arrived on the self-ruled island Thursday for talks with its leaders. Mike Gallagher heads a five-member delegation set to meet with the island’s top leadership, including President Tsai Ing-wen and Vice President Lai Ching-te, who won last month’s presidential election and will take office in May. “Time and again Taiwan […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) – The WHO said Tuesday it had sent its number two to step in for its Western Pacific chief, who has been accused by staff of abusive, racist and authoritarian behaviour. The World Health Organization has dispatched Deputy Director General Zsuzsanna Jakab from its Geneva global headquarters to temporarily replace Japanese doctor Takeshi Kasai at the regional office in Manila. A slew of accusations against Kasai emerged in January from staff past […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — YouTube announced Wednesday the tally of “dislike” clicks on videos will no longer be visible to the public to protect creators from harassment and targeted attacks. A public count of likes — or dislikes — that social media posts rack up is regularly cited by critics as harmful to well-being, and Facebook as well as Instagram have allowed users to opt out. Users on the Google-owned video sharing platform […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Bong Revilla has filed a measure requiring all workplaces to put in place mechanisms against bullying. In filing Senate Bill 1217, Revilla noted that while Congress has already banned bullying in schools, it has yet to enact a similar law covering private and government offices. “These kinds of acts hamper peace and tranquility in a professional environment and disrupt the delivery of services to the public,” Revilla said. Under the proposed law, bullying […]
(Eagle News) – Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana branded as “bullying” China’s actions in the West Philippine Sea, particularly how it took over the Scarborough Shoal also known as Panatag Shoal. Lorenzana said that unless China matched its rhetoric with action, most people will continue to have low trust on the Asian giant. “The way they took over Scarborough Shoal, to me, that is bullying,” Lorenzana said on Tuesday. “The Chinese, since they started grabbing […]
Boy’s mother also apologizes but asks for public’s understanding: “Bata ‘tong anak ko” (Eagle News) — The boy who was dismissed from Ateneo Junior High School after he was seen physically assaulting a student in a viral video has apologized for his actions, but claimed merely acting in self-defense. “Sabi niya gusto niya raw makipagsuntukan mamaya. Sabi ko sige, mamayang dismissal. So, nung dismissal nga ‘yon, pumunta kami sa CR tapos umihi siya tapos nagsasalita […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima has urged the public to probe first the root cause of the behavior of a bully before passing judgment. De Lima made the comment days after an Ateneo Junior High School student, who was seen physically assaulting a schoolmate in a viral video after asking him to choose between “bugbog or dignidad,” received scathing criticisms from netizens online. The student was also seen physically and verbally assaulting other schoolmates in […]
(Eagle News)–The Ateneo de Manila Junior High School has moved the date of the resumption of classes from Jan. 3, 2019 to Jan. 7, 2019. In a memorandum on its Facebook page, AJHS said the new date was to “allow the school administration, faculty, and staff ample time to prepare for the implementation of a series of concrete and proactive measures that will directly address the bullying issue on campus.” Earlier, an AJHS student was […]
(Eagle News)—Senator Grace Poe has said there was a need to revisit the anti-bullying law so that school administrators will not have “too much discretion on when to act” on a bullying case. In a statement, Poe, who said she would file a Senate resolution to that effect, noted the case of an Ateneo student who was seen being bullied by his schoolmate in a now-viral video. The same bully was seen physically and emotionally […]
(Eagle News)–The parents of the Ateneo student who was seen being physically assaulted by another in a viral video want their son to be remembered as someone who had a “strong moral foundation” and not as the “poster child for a bullied boy.” Breaking their silence for the first time, the parents said in a statement that their son, after all, “did not fight fire with fire, upholding instead his virtues of what is right […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Education on Monday, Dec. 24, said the bullying incident in Ateneo captured in a now-viral video should serve as a wake-up call for people to take bullying seriously. In a statement, the DepEd said bullying is a “societal issue that demands the cooperation of teachers, parents, school administrators, community members, and even the media to instill among learners the culture of peace and the value of respect for one another.” As such, […]
Notes that probe of the others involved in bullying still ongoing (Eagle News)–The Palace has commended Ateneo for its dismissal of the student seen physically and emotionally assaulting other boys in viral videos, reiterating bullying should not be tolerated nor condoned in any way. In a statement on Sunday, Dec. 23, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo noted, however, that the probe “as regards the rest of those involved” has yet to be concluded. As for the parents […]
