You know, he COULD just stand and take questions from the press, instead of getting all his security to push us aside. Will he answer questions if he becomes president?
What happens when house-to-house campaign volunteers for two different presidential candidates meet during their rounds? Supporters of Leni Robredo and labor activist presidential candidate Leody de Guzman take a photo, united against a common opponent. (📷Herbie Docena)
Do you speak lockdown?
🇩🇪: Soft lockdown, lockdown light, hard lockdown, shutdown, Ruhetage
🇵🇭: General community quarantine (GCQ), enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), modified general community quarantine (MGCQ),extreme enhanced community quarantine (EECQ)
🇬🇧: Tiers 1-4
🤔
Duterte: "The hottest issues are West Philippine Sea, ayuda and --- [what’s the other one?] [Official: COVID.] --- ah itong COVID. Oh well."
Full speech here;
“The coffee shop, Silingan, opened last year and is staffed primarily by the mothers and wives, sisters and daughters of those killed since 2016, when Mr. Duterte took office.” By
@newshound16
Trump came to a Miami courthouse, plead not guilty to 37 charges over mishandling classified docs, and left…a time as any for me to say IN PERSONAL NEWS, I’ve moved to the U.S. as a correspondent for
@dwnews
. And these are the kinds of stories I will get to cover. Bring it on!
Every year I look forward to going home to the Philippines and seeing my family. But also to reporting while there. Realize what a privilege it was, having gotten to do that these last years. Sitting it out this time, but happy for the chances I’ve had and will have again one day
Hello from the Philippines, which finds itself 16 days away from a national election. Thousands of supporters are gathering in 34-degree-heat in what’s expected to be the biggest rally yet for presidential candidate Leni Robredo - currently 2nd in the race.
Some vaccination centres in Germany are going to be shut over the Easter weekend, but that's okay because it's not like this is an emergency or anything
Still blows my mind that the risk of getting some of it wrong (e.g. some getting vaccinated that aren’t in the current priority group) is somehow seen as worse than more people dying cause we’re not vaccinating quickly enough
A double deadline looms over Evergrande this week. China's embattled real estate giant owes an estimated $300 billion and is expected to default on bond payments...some of which are due Monday, with more coming on Thursday.
@cliffordcoonan
and I get into it👇🏽
Couldn't let today's business bulletin pass without a reference to Marcos Jr.'s first, economics-heavy state of the nation address - and was able to have
@iamAnaSantos
and her razor-sharp analysis too! (Not everyday we have two Pinays on the show 🇵🇭)
@janelledumalaon
We were told that it was an option, but we are also able to wait until the machines are fixed. So some people have been waiting for hours already. One mom with a breastfeeding baby opted to go home and come back later. We were also told that our precinct will extend until 12mn.
On a day where Belarus has jailed Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski, it's key to recognize the costs of fighting authoritarianism, and the people who continue to bear it. We spoke to
@mariaressa
for
@dwnews
DW News Asia with
@BireshBanerjee2
. Full talk here:
For
@dwnews
I spoke to Philippine foreign affairs secretary
@SecManalo
about what it means to balance US-China ties at a time of increasing tensions in the South China Sea and a growing US military presence in the country. Watch here —>
Always astounds me whenever the reaction to being called out for racism is “no, that wasn’t racist, you just didn’t get it”.
#Hornbach
tweets saying this was really about the poorer quality of life in urbanized settings is a patronizing masterclass in it
Thank you to the somewhat cloudy mirror window at the vaccination center for enabling me to take a souvenir of my second jab. And thank you, obviously, to science 💉💉💉
The European Union is sanctioning China over human rights abuses against the country's Uighur Muslim minority.
@TheresaAFallon
and
@cliffordcoonan
break down what it all means on
@dw_business
. Full interview here:
There’s an ice cream place near me in Berlin that does ube ice cream - but I’ve been told the pandemic has made it harder to source it from the Philippines. Enjoying it while it lasts 😭
And that’s it from us
@dw_business
at
#Davos20
. Here’s me and
@BenFajzullin
on standby for our final recap - addressing the (height) inequality along the way!
I am old enough to remember a restaurant in Manila called Spam Jam that only served Spam recipes (like Spam nuggets or Spam Caesar salad). It was weirdly expensive.
Absurd stat of the day
Canned meat is the food trend you've been sleeping on. Spam sales hit a record high for the seventh year in a row, the CEO of parent Hormel said.
The only media news that matters today: a German news startup announced its headquarters will be “Germany’s first editorial ship” — floating every day on the River Spree near the Reichstag
Yes having spent so much on visas and being required to undergo repeated, intrusive checks into my financial and travel history in my lifetime, I have little sympathy for such reactions
Seeing news of how indigenous people have reportedly approved the construction of the Kaliwa Dam on their land. Somehow the people themselves are hardly quoted in the articles I've seen. Here's a report from when I went to see for myself what they thought
"Welcher Lockdown (what lockdown?)" is trending in Germany. Have been wondering whether we're in the hammer bit or the dance bit, or is that no longer a thing?
Good morning from the
#WEF19
in
#davos
, where this ridiculously picturesque view belies increasing worry over an inequality-driven social backlash in this here age of globalization (the longer I typed this tweet, the less it fit the picture but I can’t turn back now)
Left-wing alliance Bayan says: statement:
“The current Philippine election tally is the result of a failed political system, massive disinformation, vote-buying, red-tagging, political repression, and a non-transparent voting.“
From half a year ago, when
@migsbustos
showed us around
@ABSCBNNews
. The specter of a shutdown for the Philippines‘ biggest broadcaster was already looming then - but I didn’t actually think it would happen. It’s a dark day for
#PressFreedom
.
#NoToABSCBNShutDown
This week at
@dw_business
❇️ 🇩🇪 first ever class action-style suit vs VW
❇️ WeWork=NotWorking
❇️70 Years of PRC 🇨🇳
❇️WTO rules vs. EU over ✈️ subsidies
❇️US stocks ⬇️ cause weak economic data, then ⬆️ cause that could mean rate cut, but ⬇️overall
Weekend:
(See below)
Merkel ends speech saying the challenges should not be given up on - it would be the wrong signal to send 75 years after WWII. Standout statement for me remains support for the impatience of the youth, an indirect jab at Trump calling them prophets of doom.
Anti-China protestors making themselves heard close to the APEC summit venue - just not to Xi Jinping, who is meeting Joe Biden in a country estate about 40 minutes from here.
Filipinos should just accept President Rodrigo Duterte's sexist jokes during a situation briefing on typhoon devastation in Luzon because it's his way of coping with adversity, said Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Monday, November 16.
READ:
Biden namechecks the Philippines, says defense coooperation with Manila remains ironclad in joint press conference with visiting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
We now know that Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are set to meet at the APEC meeting in San Francisco - they will sit down together on November 15. Here is my report on why both sides are feeling more pressure to manage their fraught relationship.
Since my dad just got his first Sinovac jab today, this is the line I am choosing to focus on: "despite the apparently poor results in stopping infections, the Sinovac vaccine... appears to offer remarkably good protection against severe disease and death."