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Robredo: Naive to Separate Economic Freedom and Human Rights In an international conference on Economic Freedom and Human Rights in Business, Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo further accentuated that economic liberty is a human right. |
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“Globalization connects people to each other, but it also isolates us from one other. We have to look more closely at how we can make democracy a platform especially for those in the periphery to be heard,” said Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, who is also the new president of the Liberal Party of the Philippines. Read more: |
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The EU can become an “empire of the good” after Donald Trump’s shock election to the White House, according to Guy Verhofstadt. |
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Maria Chin Abdullah, the chairperson of Bersih 2.0, is a widely respected, veteran activist now languishing in solitary confinement
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The acting president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party plans to continue boycotting the National Assembly, but other party members are free to attend the parliamentary body’s plenary session on Tuesday, CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann told RFA’s Khmer Service on Monday. Read more: |
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Myanmar has for a long time grappled with political issues, but state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said it is now looking to Singapore and the business community to help the country on the economic front. |
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Vice President Leni Robredo has announced that she is resigning from the President’s Cabinet.
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ON THE eighth floor in a gritty suburapb of the capital, Taipei, sits the ten-year-old Wei-ming temple, a Taoist house of worship—but an unusual one. Nearly all the visitors buying bundles of prayers or bringing handwritten ones of their own to be burnt by the priest at the altar are gay. The deity receiving the prayers, and to whom the shrine is dedicated, is the Rabbit Spirit, a 17th-century folk deity from Fujian province in mainland China who protects men who have sex with men. In late imperial China, “rabbit” became a derogatory term for homosexual. In this temple the rabbits are reclaiming the label. |
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Thailand’s new monarch King Maha Vajiralongkorn led prayers for his late father on Friday, his first appearance at Bangkok’s Grand Palace since he was officially appointed the day before after a seven-week delay.
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