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Government, International, Military, Politics, Race Relations

Leni Robredo To Push For GMRC Among ASEAN Nations To Solve Conflict With China!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Vice President Leni Robredo, if elected president on May 9, 2022, will push for Good Manners and Right Conduct ( GMRC) among member-states of ASEAN as a way to solve the conflict with China over disputed territory.

Robredo was responding to a question during last night’s Comelec-sponsored presidential debate. The question was: how will you convince ASEAN nations to unite to stop China’s militarization in the West Philippine Sea?

She maintained that it was innate for some nations to refuse to have good conduct.

Here is her full response:

International, Politics, Race Relations

Stop Meddling In The Philippines’ Domestic Affairs, Vice President Leni Robredo Tells U.S.!

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QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Quezon City Bureau) – Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo lashed out at the United States for what she described as meddling in the Philippines’ domestic affairs.

Robredo was reacting to a statement by former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich saying that she may be dumbest person ever to become Vice President.

Calls to Gingrich for a reaction remained unanswered as of press time.

Awards, Government, International, Law Enforcement, Social Media

Duterte Pardons Maria Ressa!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – With the stroke of his pen, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte granted Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa absolute pardon, making her appeal on her conviction to the Supreme Court moot and academic.

Ressa, CEO of Rappler, the least-trusted news brand in the Philippines was convicted for cyberl libel in a case filed by a private businessman in a trial court. She appealed her conviction to the high court.

Duterte’s executive clemency, a power vested in him under Section 19, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution, came just as Ressa was testifying before the U.S. Senate hearing on freedom of expression in Asia.

Ressa’s pardon all but cancels all her accusations against the Philippine government that it was ”weaponizing the law” to curtail her free speech — accusations which won for her the coveted Nobel Peace Prize.

It was unclear whether the Nobel Prize committee will rescind Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize now that the basis for her award no longer exists.