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The Newest, and Smallest, ‘Biggest’ Flower
Researchers from two universities in the Philippines reported the existence of Rafflesia consueloae — officially the smallest of the world’s “giant” flowers — Thursday in the journal PhytoKeys. At around 3.8 inches in diameter, it’s about the size of a softball.
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Philippines Seizes N. Korean Ship to Enforce New Sanctions
The Philippines said on Saturday it had seized a North Korean freighter that was covered by harsher United Nations' sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear program. Manila will also deport the vessel's 21 North Korean crew and will await a U.N. inspection team from the United Nations, foreign ministry spokesman Charles Jose said in a text message.
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The Mastermind: An Arrogant Way of Killing
A journey to understand how a real-estate agent in the Philippines became the target of a criminal mastermind. By Evan Ratliff. Episode one.
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Bangladesh heist exposes Philippine dirty money secrets
When mystery hackers launched a stunning raid on Bangladesh's foreign reserves, a plot worthy of a John le Carre spy novel was sparked in the Philippines, exposing the Southeast Asian nation as a dirty money haven...
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Bullets for rice
The massacre of protesting farmers in Kidapawan [Philippines]
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Megabreach: 55 MILLION voters' details leaked in Philippines
A massive data breach appears to have left 55 million Philippine voters at much greater risk of identity fraud and more. Security researchers warn that the entire database of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has been exposed in what appears to be the biggest government related data breach in history. The COMELEC website was compromised and defaced on 27 March by Anonymous Philippines before a second hacker group, LulzSec Pilipinas posted...
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Mother for Hire
Emma moved from the Philippines to New York to make a living as a nanny for other people’s children—and hasn’t seen her own in sixteen years. By Rachel Aviv.
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18 Philippine Soldiers Killed in Firefight With Militant Group
At least 18 soldiers were killed and more than 50 wounded in a gun battle in the southern Philippines between government forces and the militant group Abu Sayyaf, military officials said Sunday. Among the militants, the dead included a Moroccan bomb maker and the son of a rebel leader, the military said. It also said more than 20 rebels were believed to have been wounded, but offered no additional details.
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Canadian hostage John Ridsdel confirmed dead as police find severed head in Southern Philippines
John Ridsdel, 68, was executed Monday night by his Islamist Philippine captors, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has confirmed. “I am outraged by the news that a Canadian citizen, John Ridsdel, held hostage in the Philippines since September 21, 2015, has been killed at the hands of his captors,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told media in a hotel ballroom hastily equipped with Canadian flags and a black backdrop for the occasion. “Canada condemns without reservation...
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Philippine president-elect says 'corrupt' journalists will be killed
You won’t be harmed if you don’t do anything wrong, says Rodrigo Duterte, pledging to end crime in six months by assassinating criminals
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Kill drug dealers and I'll give you a medal, says Philippines president
The Philippine president-elect has urged citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back. Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd celebrating his presidential victory late on Saturday in the southern city of Davao that Filipinos who help him in the bloody war against criminality would be rewarded. “Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun, you have my support,” Duterte said in his speech, which was televised nationally.
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Bounty war: Drug lords raise offer for Philippines leader’s head to $1,000,000
Drug lords have raised the ante for anyone who kills Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte, local media report. Over $1 million will be paid for the assassination of the country's new leader, who has recently declared "a bloody war” on drug cartels. The incoming police chief Ronald Dela Rosa said he had received a tip-off from a source saying that raising the reward from 10 million pesos ($216,000) to 50 million pesos ($1,083,845) was the main subject of a meeting between drug lords currently behind bars at the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa, Philippines.
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Duterte tells people to 'go ahead and kill' drug addicts
Newly inaugurated Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has urged communist rebels to start killing drug traffickers and people to kill addicts, adding another layer to a controversial war on crime in which he has warned thousands will die. The communists' armed wing, the 4,000-strong New People's Army, is known for assassinating civilians deemed to have committed so-called crimes against the people — however its courts and summary executions are illegal.
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China v Philippines: Court to rule on South China Sea
Arbitration court in The Hague will deliver ruling on dispute in the South China Sea between Beijing and Manila.
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Body count rises as new Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed
Newly-installed Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his tough stance on crime by urging the public to not only kill drug dealers, but addicts as well. His remarks came barely a day after he was sworn in as the country’s 16th president in Manila on Thursday, Vice reported. Speaking to a crowd of 500 in a Manila slum, Duterte said: “If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.” He added that, “These sons of whores are destroying our children.” After claiming victory in the general elections in May...
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‘New normal’ after South China Sea ruling
“Pressed by the Philippines at the Tribunal and under diplomatic pressure from maritime Asean claimant states such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, China saw fit to cash in some of its patron-client ties with Cambodia and Laos, two small mainland Asean states, for diplomatic backup.” By Thitinan Pongsudhirak.
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Asia’s 'shoot-to-kill' republic? The rising body count of the Philippines’ 'war on drugs'
The Philippines is seeing a surge of extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals and drug users since Rodrigo Duterte assumed office last month.
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More than 700 people killed in Philippines drugs crackdown
More than 700 suspected drug users or dealers have been killed by police or vigilantes in the Philippines in less than three months, say human rights campaigners, who are calling on the UN to denounce the violence. Human Rights Watch, Stop Aids and International HIV/Aids Alliance are among more than 300 civil society groups that have signed joint letters to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), calling on them to break their silence over the crackdown.
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Philippines President Duterte on vigilante drug war: "You can't stop me"
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte publicly linked more than 150 judges, mayors, lawmakers, police and military personnel to illegal drugs Sunday, ordering them to surrender for investigation as he ratcheted up his bloody war against what he calls a "pandemic." Duterte, dubbed the "Filipino Donald Trump," promptly relieved members of the military and police he named from their current posts and ordered government security personnel to be withdrawn from politicians he identified in a nationally televised speech. He also ordered gun licenses of those named revoked.
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UN experts urge the Philippines to stop unlawful killings of people suspected of drug-related offences
“Allegations of drug-trafficking offences should be judged in a court of law, not by gunmen on the streets,” today said two United Nations human rights experts, while urging the Government of the Philippines to put an end to the current wave of extrajudicial executions and killings in the context of an intensified anti-crime and anti-drug campaign targeting drug dealers and users. More than 850 people have been killed between 10 May, when Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines vowing to crackdown on crime...
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