Windows26: Marcos: China’s actions in WPS ‘illegal, reckless’

August 12, 2024

Hi, reader! Today, we're covering Marcos denouncing China's latest aggressions in the West Philippine Sea as 'illegal and reckless,' plus calls for the country to rejoin the ICC.

Marcos: China's actions in WPS 'illegal, reckless'

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Sunday denounced what he termed as "unjustified, illegal and reckless" actions of two Chinese Air Force aircraft that harassed a Philippine Air Force (PAF) plane on Aug. 8 as it flew over the country's territorial waters near Bajo de Masinloc (Panatag or Scarborough Shoal) in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).

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Time to cooperate with, rejoin ICC, Marcos urged

It would be better for the Marcos administration to openly cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) instead of doing it "through backdoors" and ultimately, to allow the Philippines to rejoin the Rome Statute.

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PAF to get Israeli-made long-range patrol aircraft

The Philippine Air Force (PAF) is scheduled to receive the first of two long-range patrol aircraft (LRPA) next year from Israel's Elbit Systems Ltd., expanding its capabilities to patrol the archipelago.

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30-year study: Households, not gov't, shoulder bulk of health spending

With public spending on health care rising in the past three decades, a study has found that the bulk of health expenses are shouldered by the average Filipino, even with the implementation of the Universal Health Care Act in 2019.

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'Where were you, ma'am' during typhoon? – young lawmakers to VP

Neophyte lawmakers at the House of Representatives on Sunday took exception to Vice President Sara Duterte's claims on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s supposed failure to fund flood control projects in Davao City, citing netizens' tagging her as #LakwatSara over her Germany trip while Supertyphoon Carina pummeled the country.

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EDITORIAL: A law to fix job-skills mismatch

In 2022, the state-run Philippine Institute for Development Studies cited a 2022 study that found that 39 percent of employed individuals were overeducated, while over a quarter were undereducated. In short, the job mismatch problem was not being properly addressed.

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