(The unit of measure should not exceed one ten thousandth of the total military expenditures.

This was recalled by Carlos Padilla, the Filipino referee who officiated the game

The weak defense system of the Philippines is no secret.

Argentina did so in 2001, when it pesofied its dollar debts.

Filipino journalist Carlos Conde analyzes the shoe throwing incident from the perspective of a media person

But that s only half of the story when it comes to the President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte.

The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis affected the economy, resulting in a lingering decline of the value of the peso and falls in the stock market.

The Filipino legislature was not interested in pursuing the matter and nothing came of it.

The peso has barely budged since the election a clear indication that investors have not lost faith in the country.

President Benigno S. Aquino III accused persons of interest associated with his predecessor s administration of conspiring to spark trouble in Sabah

Filipino student leader Cleve Arguelles has listed a comprehensive matrix of Philippine education related social media accounts.

Photo from The Kahimyang Project by Primo Esteria, shared on the official Facebook page of the Philippine presidential palace.

In the 19th century, Philippine ports opened to world trade and shifts started occurring within Philippine society.

Not so fast, said Filipino President Benigno S. Aquino III. No such agreement had been made.

Moreover, manipulation of official statistics highlights the problems of an economic model based on peso depreciation and the accumulation of reserves.

Antipas Biboy Delotavo is a popular Filipino visual artist who has committed his art to revealing some of the harsh realities experienced by ordinary individuals in Philippine society.

The Philippine tarsier, has a high frequency limit of auditory sensitivity of approximately 91 kHz with a dominant frequency of 70 kHz.

The result was the Mexican peso crisis of later that year (which I, as US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, had to help contain).

An example of their work, which was exhibited in a university museum, tackles the campaign for land reform in an estate owned by the family of the incumbent Philippine president

The majority of Filipino internet users and media groups opposed the passage of the Philippine Cybercrime Law because of provisions that potentially curtail media freedom and other civil liberties.

We would also like to add that the Philippines is particularly encouraged to note the findings of a recent national survey on the Filipino people's perception of women as peacemakers.

Finally, after Mexico s 1994 95 peso crisis and the 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis, the US exported its new banking model to the emerging market economies.

When a government borrows a euro (or a dollar, pound, peso, or yuan), it commits itself to pay a euro in present value of future interest payments and eventual repayment of principal.

No such agreement had been made. Hun Sen had mischaracterized the discussions among ASEAN s leaders.

The Filipino people have a long experience of being subjected to violence and plunder because of the rule of US imperialism and the neoliberal policies they impose on the country, the US bases and the US troops that are here.

In a TV interview, a spokesperson from the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility said the proposed legislation is unnecessary because Philippine libel law already addresses the issues raised by the senator.

On 13 December 1993, the Philippine Congress, by way of Republic Act No. 7659, adopted new legislation that again included the death penalty for a number of crimes.

A huge influx of capital could lead to a significant appreciation of the peso s exchange rate, causing an increase in Mexico s currently very attractive labor costs.

An old man in an abandoned lot.Together with other members of the Filipino Street Photographers, Mark Z. Saludes conducted a photowalk in an urban poor community in Mandaluyong, an eastern suburb of Manila.

A photo of a Mexican revolutionary who looks like Manny Pacquiao has gone viral few days before the Filipino boxing icon's fight today against Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas for three champions belts (OMB, CMB y la AMB) in the welterweight division.

Statement (1) is correct as a matter of Filipino constitutional law but at the same time amounts to an admission that the sequence of events should be categorised as abolition followed by reintroduction.

Philippine Senator Joel Villanueva filed a bill in late June that would criminalize the malicious distribution of false news. Media groups are warning it could lead to censorship.

His Government also hoped that the significant improvement in the Philippine economy over the first half of 2004 would enable it to step up its financial contributions to the Organization.

Instead, Manila port officials and the Philippine coast guard permitted the Princess of the Stars to set sail, despite clear warnings by the weather bureau that the ship was headed for the eye of the typhoon.

Failure to address these important problems risks a continuing high rate of inflation, now running in excess of 20 per year one of the highest annual rates in the world, and well above the rate at which the Argentine peso is depreciating.

And, according to the BIS, while the renminbi has finally broken into the top ten currencies in foreign exchange markets, it still accounts for only 2.2 of all transactions, just behind the Mexican peso s 2.5 share.

Its overvaluation began with the Mexican peso crisis of 1994, and was officially enshrined by the strong dollar policy adopted after the East Asian financial crisis of 1997.

In the last 18 months, the peso has appreciated 6 more than the renminbi, eroding Mexico s ability to compete with Chinese exports to the US, by far Mexico s largest export market.

Indeed, just last November, a member of the Philippines Congress, Wahab Akbar, a Muslim representing Basilan, was killed with five others in front of the House of Representatives by an improvised explosive device of the type used in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

The Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2015 has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Google, Open Society Foundations, Knight Foundation, Yahoo!, the Web We Want campaign, Making All Voices Count, and the Philippine Centre for Investigative Journalism.

In this week's episode of Into the Deep, a new Global Voices podcast that digs deep into one issue that isn t getting the media coverage it deserves, Global Voices contributors Mong Palatino and Karlo Mongaya help us unravel the other side of Duterte.

So Cory Aquino's death has, in many ways, orphaned the Filipino nation. We who are left behind owe her the duty of safeguarding her legacy of freedom and of enriching it with social justice and unity in nation building. For until the very end of her battle with cancer, she continued to speak out for individual transformation and, on the part of those elected to lead us, for their selfless stewardship.

Last June, I gave the keynote speech at the celebrations marking the 36th anniversary of the establishment of Philippines China diplomatic relations and the 10th anniversary of Philippines China Friendship Day in the presence of 5,000 of my countrymen and a smattering of Chinese officials.