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MANILA, Philippines — President Benigno S. Aquino will attend the Association of ASEAN-U.S. Summit next week. He will be joined by Foreign Affairs secretary Albert Del Rosario. The summit aims to build deeper partnerships that the U.S. has forged with ASEAN since 2009 and further advance Washington’s rebalance to Asia and the pacific. The event will provide leaders a forum to strengthen cooperation on political security and economic issues under the new U.S.-ASEAN strategic partnership, […]
LEADERS of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN and United States president Barack Obama will jointly endorse guidelines to enhance cooperation in the first stand-alone U.S.-ASEAN Summit in Sunnylands, California next week. The result of the summit will be issued in cooperation guidelines, called the Sunnylands principles, to be endorsed by President Obama and ten ASEAN leaders. In November last year, Obama invited ASEAN leaders to the special talk after ASEAN elevated relations […]
by Karl Malakunas MANILA, Philippines (AFP) –A cliffhanger race to lead the Philippines began Tuesday with emotion-charged rallies by a dead movie star’s adopted daughter, a politician who brags about killing criminals and other top contenders. The three-month election campaign got under way with four aspirants standing a genuine chance of succeeding popular President Benigno Aquino, who is limited by the constitution to a single term. The Philippines has endured a turbulent democracy since emerging […]
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) — At least four Myanmar military personnel were feared dead after a small air force propeller plane crashed shortly after take off in the capital Naypyidaw Wednesday, official sources said. The Beechcraft passenger plane, which was carrying five crew members and believed to be on a routine patrol, went down in agricultural land near the airport. Hundreds of people gathered in the area as officials raced to extinguish the fire and sift […]
The Department Of Transportation and Communications said, President Benigno Aquino has signed deals that allow Philippine carriers to fly unlimited frequencies to and beyond the capital cities of the ASEAN member-countries. DOTC Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said that protocols 5 and 6 of the ASEAN Multilateral Agreement in Air Services (MAAS) were inked on February 3. This provides unlimited access to any point within the ASEAN area. The government targets to have new flights operational […]
FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario has resigned effective March 7, and President Benigno S. Aquino III has accepted it. Malacañang confirmed yesterday Del Rosario’s resignation but did not cite a reason. Two senior diplomats, however, said the secretary has been suffering from a heart ailment. Del Rosario took a month-long leave last year to undergo back surgery in the United States, but he returned to work immediately. The country’s top diplomat was the one […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Scores of detainees have been tortured by Thai security forces in the country’s conflict-strewn south, rights groups said Tuesday, with beatings, suffocations and death threats among a litany of alleged abuse. Special security laws govern Thailand’s Muslim-majority southernmost provinces, where more than 6,500 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in a 12-year insurgency against Thai rule. Under martial law — which is flanked by an emergency decree — rebel suspects can be […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia ( AFP) — More than two dozen Indonesians have died after drinking bootleg alcohol in central Java, police said Monday. Investigators said a majority of the victims died after purchasing home-made liquor from a couple in Sleman, a town north of Yogyakarta city, local police said. “Most of the victims were students,” Sleman police chief Yulianto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP. The first death occurred last Wednesday, with more […]
THE Indonesian ministry of Industry has urged the domestic pharmaceutical industry to capitalize on opportunities to boost sales to the ASEAN market. “The ASEAN market of 650 million people offers an opportunity for our existing advanced upstream pharmaceutical industry.” Director General of Chemical Industry of the Ministry of Industry Harjanto told Antara that “the ASEAN market of 650 million people offers an opportunity for our existing advanced upstream pharmaceutical industry.” Therefore, the government is preparing […]
Malacañang shrugged off the apparent favorable statement of Supreme Court chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on foundlings like presidential bet, Senator Grace Poe. Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said it would be best to wait for the SC’s decision on the disqualification case against Poe and “not rely on the opinion of a single individual.” The high court has been hearing Poe’s case after the commission on elections disqualified her as a presidential candidate for not […]
THE Commission on Elections first division unanimously denied the four disqualification cases filed against presidential candidates Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for lack of merit. The disqualification cases were separately filed by broadcasters Ruben Castor, Rizalito David, Ely Pamatong and John Paulo Delas Nieves. All four petitions principally questioned validity of Duterte’s substitution for Martin Diño, claiming that the latter’s certificate of candidacy (COC) for president was invalid. (Eagle News Service)
Goldberg said the United States and the Philippines both have deep interest in ensuring freedom of navigation and he is not discarding the possibility of joint patrols in the area. Two U.S. warships have sailed by China-claimed islands in the Spratly and Paracel island chains since October. Foreign affairs secretary Albert Del Rosario said last week the officials discussing possible joint patrols were looking at an area within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. Tensions have […]
