Jason Gutierrez

1 month ago | benarnews.org | Jason Gutierrez |jojo Riñoza |Anna Tolentino

Wearing her glasses and trademark printed scarf, former Sen. Leila de Lima waded patiently through university students who mobbed her as she left a campaign stop in the northern Philippines. The ex-senator and former Philippines justice secretary is on the comeback trail, after having spent nearly seven years as a “prisoner of conscience” jailed under President Rodrigo Duterte and later Ferdinand Marcos Jr. De Lima was incarcerated over drug-related charges she says were trumped up.

1 month ago | rfa.org | Jason Gutierrez |jojo Riñoza

MANILA - The defense chiefs of Japan and the Philippines agreed to boost bilateral military ties over mutual concerns driven by an “increasingly severe” security situation in their respective territorial disputes with China. The two officials met amid a flurry of visits to Manila in recent days by foreign allies and new partners in broadened military cooperation with the Philippines. These included a visit by Adm.

1 month ago | benarnews.org | Jason Gutierrez |jojo Riñoza

The defense chiefs of Japan and the Philippines agreed to boost bilateral military ties over mutual concerns driven by an “increasingly severe” security situation in their respective territorial disputes with China. The two officials met amid a flurry of visits to Manila in recent days by foreign allies and new partners in broadened military cooperation with the Philippines. These included a visit by Adm.

Nov 27, 2024 | benarnews.org | Jason Gutierrez |jojo Riñoza

Celia Veloso paced anxiously inside her bare-brick home, waiting for a call from her daughter Mary Jane, who had spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia. A stream of friends and neighbors had been stopping by the home in a remote farming barrio north of Manila since last week. That’s when Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced that the Indonesian government had agreed to repatriate Mary Jane Veloso, a migrant worker and drug convict, after years of legal appeals.