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Asia forms world's biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S.

🔒 Closed Asia forms world's biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S.

Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world’s largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President Donald Trump. The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) at a regional summit in Hanoi, is a further blow to the group pushed by former U.S. president Barack Obama, which his successor Trump exited in 2017. Amid questions over Washington’s engagement in Asia, RCEP may cement China’s position more firmly as an economic partner with Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea, putting the world’s second-biggest economy in a better position to shape the region’s trade rules. The United States is absent from both RCEP and the...
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Mangrove Rehabilitation Project in Sibuguey Bay, Zamboanga

🔒 Closed Mangrove Rehabilitation Project in Sibuguey Bay, Zamboanga

Sibuguey Bay in the Province of Zamboanga Sibugay, supports the Philippines’ richest fish populations. Bordering eight coastal municipalities, the bay supplies fish for an estimated 330,000 Sibugaynons inhabiting the area. Through several mangrove rehabilitation projects supported by Forest Foundation Philippines, Sibuguey Bay and the local fisherfolk find a way to keep thriving together. From 2008 to 2011, Xavier Agricultural Extension Service Foundation Inc. (XAES), and with support from Forest Foundation Philippines, reforested 329 hectares of de****d mangrove, open space areas, and abandoned fishponds. It also capacitated 545 fisherfolks with coastal resource management, nursery establishment, and sustainable aquaculture...
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Huawei is building a new chip factory to circumvent US ban

🔒 Closed Huawei is building a new chip factory to circumvent US ban

Huawei’s operations face great difficulties following the latest US ban, that cut access to chip supply. Now according to Financial Times, the Shenzhen company is now preparing its own chipset plant (instead of relying on TSMC) that will run on behalf of the in-house R&D business and will be backed by the local government. It will initially be able to only manufacture 45nm chipsets that were initially introduced back in 2007. Earlier this year Richard Yu, CEO of the consumer business group at Huawei, revealed the company can no longer make its own chips, meaning it has to start from square one. The FT report said 28nm chipsets will be manufactured by the end of 2021 - such platforms are useful for IoT devices; by 2022 Huawei will...
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Doctor in Quezon City tests positive for COVID-19

🔒 Closed Doctor in Quezon City tests positive for COVID-19

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 11) — The Quezon City government on Wednesday reported that a doctor has tested positive for COVID-19 — the first reported case of infection of a medical personnel in the country and the fourth case of the viral disease in the city. Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte told CNN Philippines in a text message that he is a 27-year-old doctor who, based on reports, was treating a COVID-19 patient. Belmonte would not disclose the name of the hospital where he worked at. The Health Department said in a press briefing that there are still no reports of hospital-acquired infections of the virus that causes COVID-19. It is not clear if this patient is among the 49 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country...
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îllégâl mini-hospital ni-raid, Chinese patients showing COVID symptoms ay..

🔒 Closed îllégâl mini-hospital ni-raid, Chinese patients showing COVID symptoms ay..

A police official who led the raid on an îllégâl medical facility feared that Chinese patients who may have COVID-19 are not being treated properly and are not placed under quarantine despite showing symptoms. The PNP caught one Chinese national being treated in the îllégâl facility on Tuesday, who was complaining about cough and sore throat. "Ang mga dinadalang pasyente doon accordingly ay may mga problema sa respiratory diseases such as inuubo, sinisipon, namamaga ang lalamunan. Lahat po 'yun ay manifestation na meron kang COVID-19 [Patients brought here are those with respiratory diseases such as cough, colds, and sore throat. All those are manifestations of COVID-19)," Armamento told CNN Philippines' Balitaan. "Ang very risky po...
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NOW Telecom gets provisional extension to operate as ‘4th telco’

🔒 Closed NOW Telecom gets provisional extension to operate as ‘4th telco’

NOW Telecom gets provisional extension to operate as ‘4th telco’ MANILA, Philippines — The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has extended the provisional authority of NOW Telecom Company, Inc., the telecom affiliate of NOW Corporation, to install, operate, and maintain a nationwide mobile telecommunications system. Under the NTC order, the PA is subject to the infusion of additional capital of at least P1.9 billion based from the first two years capital expenditure of P6.3 billion in the submitted rollout plan and approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the increase in the authorized and ρáíd-up capital, according to the telco unit. It added the PA is not specific to 3G or third-generation mobile...
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Huawei to launch first Harmony OS beta for mobile phones on December 18

🔒 Closed Huawei to launch first Harmony OS beta for mobile phones on December 18

Huawei knows the future path to Google Services might be non-existent even with a new US President, so the company is going full ahead with its own Harmony OS. According to Wang Chenglu, the president of the software department at Huawei Consumer Business Group, the open-source platform will be available to developers around December 18 and the first demo units will run the OS by January or February 2021. Dr. Wang revealed all the employees at Huawei are working towards building a new ecosystem around the Harmony idea and so far everything is going according to plan. When the initial reports come back in the first quarter of 2021, the public beta should launch around April 2021. The executive said around 90% of the company...
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Duterte approval rating rises to 91% amid pandemic, Cayetano suffers drop – survey

🔒 Closed Duterte approval rating rises to 91% amid pandemic, Cayetano suffers drop – survey

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 5) — Ninety-one percent of Filipinos surveyed were satisfied with the performance of President Rodrigo Duterte eight months into the country's COVID-19 crisis that has disrupted the lives and livelihood of millions of Filipinos, an independent pollster has found. Pulse Asia on Monday reported the findings of its nationwide survey conducted from Sept. 14 to 20 on 1,200 adults nationwide. The President's approval rating increased by 4 percentage points compared to the rating he received in December 2019 — a month before the country recorded its first COVID-19 infection. Only 5 percent disapproved of his performance, while 5 percent were undecided. His trust rating also went up by 8 percentage...
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Facebook shows photos of China-based fake accounts supporting Duterte(Sad propaganda noises)

🔒 Closed Facebook shows photos of China-based fake accounts supporting Duterte(Sad propaganda noises)

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1339474/facebook-shows-photos-of-china-based-fake-accounts-supporting-duterte MANILA, Philippines — Social media giant Facebook on Wednesday made public some screenshots of posts backing President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter, Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, which were created by fake accounts traced to people from Fujian province in China. Facebook shuttered the pages and accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB)” with sharing global news about the West Philippine Sea dispute. One of the pages taken down was “South China Sea Outpost” which shared the news report about President Rodrigo Duterte’s remark that government will push through with projects under Chinese companies even those...
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China reportedly sends 'the world’s first 6G test satellite' into space

🔒 Closed China reportedly sends 'the world’s first 6G test satellite' into space

China sent “the world’s first 6G test satellite” into the orbit with a launch of Long March 6 carrier rocket on Friday, according to a message from the University of Electronic Science and Technology, cited by local media. The experimental satellite, which now bears the name “University of Electronic Science and Technology”, is said to be a joint venture between the country’s key educational establishment and National Star Aerospace. It was one of 13 satellites sent into space on the day from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, located in Shanxi province. The satellite, which carries a communication payload, will establish a transceiver link to carry out terahertz load tests. The 70-kilogram satellite will thus become “the first...
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BEHIND COVID 19

🔒 Closed BEHIND COVID 19

What is Behind Covid 19? 1. Behind Covid 19, there is financial crisis. 2. Behind Covid 19, there is New World Order, or National Sunday Law. 3. Behind Covid 19, there is one Currency. 4. Behind Covid 19, there is One world Church. 5. Behind Covid 19, there will be one supper power. There will be a vaccine shortly before corona virus is over, they will not allow any country to say corona virus is over, until all countries have accepted the vaccines, the question is what is in the vaccine? There is no vaccine, they want to apply poison in human bodies, to kill even more people. The Americans are the engineers in all these undertakings. They World Bank and I.M.F. has said there will be too much money crisis in the whole world. Such that...
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