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                            Why the special treatment for POGOs?
WHEN THE government declared the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) for Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon, many businesses including the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO), were forced to... Read more
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                            Government anti-communist task force posts propaganda against ABS-CBN, Rappler’s Maria Ressa
CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the government’s anti-communist task force, published social media posts on 9 May 2020 denying that the... Read more
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                            Dumaguete broadcaster gets death threat
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two days after a radio broadcaster was killed in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, a journalist in the same city received a death threat on 7 May 2020.... Read more
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                            Chinese buildup amid COVID-19: Little protest from government and media
THE PHILIPPINE government did not seem to be aware that China had constructed two research facilities in Kagitingan and Zamora Reefs in the West Philippine Sea, and had established... Read more
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                            Closing down ABS-CBN
IN THE midst of the tension and fear over the pandemic and requisite community quarantine, the government has forced a major media company off the air, literally closing it... Read more
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                            ABS-CBN goes off air following NTC’s cease and desist order
CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The country’s biggest broadcast network, ABS-CBN, ceased its radio and television operations nationwide on 5 May 2020, in compliance with an order from the National Telecommunications Commission... Read more
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Dumaguete radio broadcaster shot dead
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio broadcaster was gunned down and killed by still unidentified assailants in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental on 5 May 2020. Dumaguete City is 639.71 km south... Read more
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                            Editorials assail abuses during lockdown
CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Manila Standard for editorials calling attention to the strong-arm approach of the government on violators of quarantine regulations, assailing it in the... Read more
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Muddling through aid distribution mess
THE EXTENDED community quarantine (ECQ) has pushed more Filipinos deeper into poverty. The government’s aid has been slow to trickle down and at the rate that things are going,... Read more
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State of Media Freedom in PH
Introduction The period saw the long awaited decision from the trial of the accused of the massacre of 58 persons, including 32 journalists in Ampatuan, Maguindanao; promulgated at the... Read more