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A policeman checks on the area where a radio anchor was fatally shot by a man inside his home-based station on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, in this handout photo provided by the Calamba Municipal Police Station. The brazen attack was witnessed by people watching the program live on Facebook.

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A Philippine radio anchor was shot and killed while on a Facebook livestream

11:50am November 05, 2023

by The Associated Press

Juan Jumalon was the 199th journalist to be killed in the country since 1986, when an uprising toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the current president's father.

In this image from a video released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Filipino sailors, bottom, look after a Chinese coast guard ship with bow number 5203 bumps their supply boat as they approach Second Thomas Shoal, locally called Ayungin Shoal, at the disputed South China Sea on Sunday Oct. 22, 2023.

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Philippines says Chinese vessels hit two of its boats near disputed shoal

10:54pm October 22, 2023

by The Associated Press

A Chinese coast guard ship and one of its militia vessels separately bumped a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat Sunday off a disputed shoal, Philippine officials said.

Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Rappler CEO, gestures as she talks to reporters after being acquitted by the Pasig Regional Trial Court over a tax evasion case in Pasig city, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023.

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Nobel-winning Philippine journalist Maria Ressa is acquitted in tax evasion case

11:02am September 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

Maria Ressa said the charges against her were politically motivated as Rappler was critical of Duterte's brutal crackdown on illegal drugs that left thousands of mostly petty drug suspects dead.

Taylor Sheesh, the Philippines' top Taylor Swift impersonator, has set out on her own tour across the country in a bid to get the global superstar's attention.

After snub by Taylor Swift, Filipino 'Swifties' find solace in another Taylor

4:44pm July 21, 2023

by Ashley Westerman

Taylor Sheesh, the Philippines' top Taylor Swift impersonator, has set out on her own tour across the country in a bid to get the global superstar's attention.

Protesters wave flags and hold placards in front of the Chinese Consulate in Makati, Metro Manila on July 12, 2023, during a demonstration held to mark the seventh anniversary of an international arbitral ruling that voided China's historical claims to the South China Sea, including the nine-dash line.

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After a review, 'Barbie' movie will show in the Philippines, after all

3:15pm July 12, 2023

by Ashley Westerman

The country's film regulator has decided that a map shown in the movie does not depict China's controversial nine-dash line.

Margot Robbie poses for the media prior to a news conference of the movie Barbie in Seoul, South Korea, Monday. The film is to be released in the country on July 19.

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After Vietnam, the Philippines could be next to ban 'Barbie.' Here's why

5:17pm July 06, 2023

by Ashley Westerman

Film regulators in the Philippines are reviewing Barbie after a senator said a scene depicts a map that China uses to lay claim to nearly all of the South China Sea.

This satellite image released by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology shows Typhoon Mawar approaching Philippine northern provinces on Monday.

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Thousands evacuated as Typhoon Mawar approaches the Philippines

3:58am May 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

Authorities warned of dangerous tidal surges, flash floods and landslides as Typhoon Mawar blows past the northernmost province of Batanes from Tuesday to Wednesday.

The headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands

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Families of victims await justice as the ICC reopens Philippines drug war probe

5:01am April 22, 2023

by Ashley Westerman

An International Criminal Court investigation puts President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in a tough spot. His vice president is the daughter of the leader who launched the drug war at the heart of the probe.

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Hooded Filipino penitents carry pointed bamboo sticks as part of Maundy Thursday rituals to atone for sins or fulfill vows for an answered prayer on April 6, 2023 at Mandaluyong city, Philippines.

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Live Easter reenactments resume in the Philippines despite Catholic Church objections

5:31am April 07, 2023

by The Associated Press

The real-life reenactments in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after a three-year pause because of the coronavirus pandemic.

BTS swag is raffled off at an in-person event hosted by the Titas of BTS on March 10. Some 40 women gathered at a bar in Quezon City to celebrate the March birthdays of BTS members Suga and J-Hope.

These BTS superfans in the Philippines show you're never too old to be a K-pop stan

12:46pm March 25, 2023

by Ashley Westerman

The K-pop phenomenon BTS is on a break right now. But their fans are not — especially thousands of them in the Philippines, who call themselves the "titas" or aunties of BTS. All of them are over 30.

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