As Filipinos commemorate the 38th anniversary of the People Power Revolution, Cebu wants others to know about the city's historical role in the country's anti-Marcos campaign.
The PH's Liberal Party "will field former senators Kiko Pangilinan and Bam Aquino, and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno as opposition candidates. Leila De Lima, a former senator, also said that the party will try to convince former vice president Leni Robredo to run for senator."
Pests destroy rice fields in Mindanao, Philippines
"Zamboanga del Norte's agriculture chief says armyworms have so far damaged at least 445 hectares of the province’s more than 16,000 hectares of rice fields in at least seven municipalities and Dapitan City."
With #Asian#skateboarders shining at the Tokyo Summer Olympics and Asian Games, we explore the rise of #skateboarding in the region, especially focusing on #AsianWomen in the male-dominated skateboarding world.
Professor/Author Leslie Bow spoke about the #fetishism of #AsianWomen across media, humanoid robots & large AI language models at Saieh Hall.
Bow, 4th generation Chinese American, is a professor of English & Asian American studies at the Uni. of Wisconsin Madison. Most recently credited for penning Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy, Bow described Western infatuation with #Asian cultures as stifling, exploitative & paradoxical during the talk.
Filipinos have a strange custom of putting water around a bottle of peanut butter to keep the ants away. I wonder, do other Southeast Asians do this? 😊
What can 15 million Leni Robredo supporters do, if 31 million people love the former dictator's son Marcos Junior.
Gone are the days when politicians were achievers: bar exam topnotchers, oratorical spellbinders and eloquent writers. Now we have college dropouts, murderers, gun-totting misogynists, actors as presidents. We have not learned from history.
TikTok dance by Japanese group angers Hong Kong citizens.
Osaka-based Avantgardey posted a video of them performing the kemusan, also known as "subject 3," a popular dance move that Hong Kongers say reflects China's "vulgar culture." The Japanese group was criticized for seeing "Hong Kong as China, which touches Hong Kong people’s raw nerve."
Hi World! 🌈 I'm Charles, an Asian now working in information security with roles jumping from governance to management and so on. I'm an expert at all, but if you need some help, feel free to do so and I'll see what I can do. 🙂
Apart of work I love spending time at home with my lovely wife. The city I'm living in is too crowded for a couple without children to do anything other than commuting. Feel free to connect! 😊
More Filipinos are migrating. Nearly 49,000 Filipinos hold Canadian study permits in 2023, an increase of around 50% from 2022, when around 24,000 Filipinos had permits to study in Canada. "This makes the Philippines the 3rd largest foreign student population in Canada in 2023, second to China (102,000) and India (427,000)."
...#Arabian peninsula into the #Asian continent and came through the region of #Palestine, then you will quickly see that that region has since times immemorial been like a train station that belongs to nobody and everyone: peoples and armies coming through over millennia.
How do we resolve the dispute then if the "older rights principle" won't work either?
Maybe not that difficult: few people will dispute that the #UN were legally founded.
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