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PH bans Chinese survey vessels Copied ideas bear fruit in Manila MANILA Mayor Francisco “Isko” Domagoso, who received heaps of praises for his efforts to clean the city, declared on Monday that part of his success comes from copied ideas. Domagoso, who was the guest at the “Hotseat” program of The Manila Times TV, added that bringing order and removing road obstructions are part of the daily tasks of a mayor. He said his principle on governance was inspired by the late Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. “I’m not ashamed telling others that I’m duplicating things, I’m trying to copy whatever is good for the city,” Domagoso said. Upon taking his post, the former actor cleaned streets and relocated illegal vendors plying the stretch of Recto Avenue and Carriedo. The mayor said he removed illegal vendors from major thoroughfares but
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HINESE ships are no longer allowed to conduct marine research in Philippine waters after Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. included Chinese vessels in the ban that prevented Japanese and French vessels from doing research in the country’s territorial waters. “I banned marine survey ships, amending restriction to France and Japan by adding China,” Locsin said on Twitter on Monday. “To pick and choose invites suspicion of favoritism. Will universalize the ban. Period,” he said.
Locsin added, “Granting exception to one country will automatically lift ban universally. Exceptions invite bribes.” He posted the tweets in reply to the remark of Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo that there is nothing wrong in seeking
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Hong Kong airport shut down amid protests HONG KONG: All flights in and out of Hong Kong were canceled on Monday after thousands of prodemocracy protesters flooded the city’s airport to denounce police violence. The abrupt shutdown at one
of the world’s busiest hubs came as the Chinese government signaled its rising anger at the protesters, denouncing some of the violent demonstrations as “terrorism.”
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What’s inside P4.3B NIA DEALS GIVEN TO ‘INELIGIBLE’ CONTRACTORS PROUD TO BE A COPYCAT
Manila Mayor Francisco ‘Isko’ Domagoso discusses his plans and projects on The Manila Times TV’s ‘Hotseat’ program. PHOTO BY GERARD SEGUIA
Evolution, Growth and Impact said the Philippines has the “highest incidence” of fake medicines in Southeast Asia. The report depicted the Philippines as “a hotspot for knockoff drugs.” Recto said the report is alarming because it claims that from 2014 to 2017, fake medicines, mostly from Paki-
stan, India and China, entered the Philippines through an illicit trade network. “On top of this is the reported market penetration of locally-manufactured counterfeit over-the-counter medicines,” Recto said. He said government should unmask which of “these misbranded, spurious, fake, and
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WHEN REVOLUTIONS DEVOUR THE CHILDREN
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PH a hotspot for fake drugs? Recto seeks Senate probe SENATE President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has filed a resolution prodding the Senate to investigate a United Nations report that the Philippines has became a hotspot for fake medicines. The 2019 report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime titled Transnational Organized Crime in Southeast Asia:
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