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Philippine organizers of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games fired back af ter days of critical coverage of the messy build-up to Saturday’s opening ceremony.
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Philippine organizers of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games fired back af ter days of critical coverage of the messy build-up to Saturday’s opening ceremony.
The Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Phisgoc) might tap the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in locating the sources of the alleged…
People gather at Victoria Park for a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong on 8 December 2019. ADB growth forecast for the semi-autonomous nation is 1.2 percent…
The vote comes days after China announced retaliatory measures for Trump’s decision to sign a bill supporting Hong Kong democracy protests.
The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act requires the US president to annually review the city’s favorable trade status and threatens to revoke it if the…
Israel is set to become the first democracy to expel a Human Rights Watch employee, its executive director Kenneth Roth said today, denouncing the upcoming…
Candidates favoring greater democracy seized an overwhelming majority of the 452 seats in the city’s 18 district councils. #HongKongelections
PRO-democracy supporters celebrate the win of their candidates. AFP
Hong Kong’s people turned out in force on Sunday to cast ballots in local council elections that the city’s pro-democracy movement hopes will add pressure on…
Hardline Hong Kong protesters held their ground on Thursday in a university besieged for days by police as the US passed a bill lauding the city’s…
Soldiers from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) briefly left their Hong Kong barracks on Saturday to help the clean-up after a week of disruption…
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Friday reiterated that democracy is doing well in the Philippines despite the concerns raised by over 60 lawmakers…
“Democracy in its puritanical sense might have been tweaked, if not aggressively distorted to fit a reality far from democratic and perhaps far from ‘whole’ or…
“Since regaining our democracy from the dark dictatorship decades, out of six presidencies, only once did we have a vice presidency with an incredibly…
Pride gets a new meaning in Taiwan. Taiwan is not only a beacon of democracy, but also the symbol of diversity, acceptance and openness. People in Taiwan can…
Hong Kong, China AFP — Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon Saturday as thousands of pro-democracy protesters hit the streets, defying authorities…
Hong Kong on Thursday confirmed it had plunged into its first recession since the global financial crisis as months of seething pro-democracy protests and the…
What is at stake in all of this is nothing less than our democracy.
Beijing is drawing up a plan to remove Hong Kong’s beleaguered chief executive Carrie Lam, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, after nearly five months of…
“Pimentel’s story was different. He wanted full democracy back, staying to words uttered in the streets and at the rostrum. He held his commitment to…