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												Duterte Sacks FDA Chief for Corruption
Headline Duterte sacks FDA chief for corruption MediaTitle Philippine Star(www.philstar.com) Date 17 May 2019 Section NEWS Order Rank 1 Language English Journalist N/A Frequency Daily Duterte sacks FDA chief for corruption MANILA, Philippines — It’s the turn of the chief of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to get the ax supposedly for corruption as President Duterte continues to purge the bureaucracy of misfits and grafters, Malacañang said yesterday. The dismissal of FDA director general Nela Charade Puno was announced yesterday by presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo. “Please be advised that upon the instructions of the President, your appointment as Director General of the Food and Drug Authority, Department of Health, is hereby terminated,” Panelo said, quoting the one-page dismissal order signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea dated May 15. Health Undersecretary Eric Domingo has been directed to take over as officer-in-charge “to ensure continuous and uninterrupted operations of the FDA.” Asked about his reaction to Puno’s dismissal, Domingo said the DOH “supports President Duterte’s commitment to eradicate graft and corruption in all government agencies.” According to Palace officials, Duterte had lost trust and confidence in Puno because of corruption issues, details of which Panelo did not share. “This is in line with the President’s continuing mandate to eradicate graft and corruption and to ensure that public officials and employees conduct themselves in a manner worthy of public trust,” the dismissal order declared. Malacañang directed Puno to turn over relevant official documents to the DOH Office of the Undersecretary for Health Regulation immediately. - 
												
												PR Move to Attract More Capital and Investment
BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Djokovic wins US Open, equals QSE off ers German Sampras’ fi rms new promising opportunities mark published in QATAR since 1978 TUESDAY Vol. XXXIX No. 10938 September 11, 2018 Moharram 1, 1440 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Qatar, US review ties PR move to Our Say attract more capital and By Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka Editor-in-Chief investment O Cardholders will enjoy health, The root of His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani met at his off ice at the Amiri Diwan yesterday with the President of US Chamber of Commerce Thomas Donohue and US businessmen delegation, who called on the Deputy Amir education benefits to greet him on their visit to the country. During the meeting, they reviewed the strong relations between Qatar and the US terrorism and discussed ways to boost and develop them in various fields especially economic partnership and trade exchange, in he initiative to grant permanent and investment purposes in accord- light of the Qatar-US Business Council. They also exchanged views on future joint projects which will benefit both countries residency to non-Qatari indi- ance with stipulations. and their people. Tviduals will help increase invest- The cardholder may leave the coun- still exists ments and attract more capital, con- try and return to it during the period of tributing to further economic growth its validity without obtaining any con- In a a series of co-ordinated at- in the country, while the State can also sent or permit. - 
												
												Diplomacy” with China Made the Philippines a COVID‐19 Hotspot in Southeast Asia by Sheena A
Number 541 | December 16, 2020 EastWestCenter.org/APB “Diplomacy” with China Made the Philippines a COVID‐19 Hotspot in Southeast Asia By Sheena A. Valenzuela When the news of a mysterious illness in mainland China came to light in late December 2019, some states treated it seriously and acted with urgency to migate potenal transmission of the disease and its harmful impacts on economic and social security. For instance, the Vietnamese government recognized the coronavirus outbreak as a threat early on. In a statement on January 27, 2020, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc likened the fight against the coronavirus to “fighng against enemies” and stressed that “the Government accepts economic losses to protect the lives and Sheena A. Valenzuela, health of people”. Three days aer the pronouncement, Vietnam closed its shared borders with China Research Associate at and banned flights to and from its neighbor. Vietnam adopted these measures despite the fact that its the Ateneo School of economy is closely linked to China, its largest trading partner. Government in the On the other hand, the Philippines downplayed the threat of the virus and waited unl transmission Philippines, explains had accelerated within its borders before implemenng countermeasures. When the first COVID‐19 that: “The Philippines case was reported in the country on January 30, the public became increasingly worried and some downplayed the threat groups called for a ban on flights from China. However, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte stated of the virus and waited that he was not keen on stopping tourist traffic from China, as “it would not be fair.” Department of unl transmission had Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III supported Duterte’s posion, saying that a ban “would be accelerated within its tricky” and that it would spark “polical and diplomac repercussions” because the virus was not borders before confined to China alone. - 
												
												Country Travel Risk Summaries
COUNTRY RISK SUMMARIES Powered by FocusPoint International, Inc. Report for Week Ending September 19, 2021 Latest Updates: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, India, Israel, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine and Yemen. ▪ Afghanistan: On September 14, thousands held a protest in Kandahar during afternoon hours local time to denounce a Taliban decision to evict residents in Firqa area. No further details were immediately available. ▪ Burkina Faso: On September 13, at least four people were killed and several others ijured after suspected Islamist militants ambushed a gendarme patrol escorting mining workers between Sakoani and Matiacoali in Est Region. Several gendarmes were missing following the attack. ▪ Cameroon: On September 14, at least seven soldiers were killed in clashes with separatist fighters in kikaikelaki, Northwest region. Another two soldiers were killed in an ambush in Chounghi on September 11. ▪ India: On September 16, at least six people were killed, including one each in Kendrapara and Subarnapur districts, and around 20,522 others evacuated, while 7,500 houses were damaged across Odisha state over the last three days, due to floods triggered by heavy rainfall. Disaster teams were sent to Balasore, Bhadrak and Kendrapara districts. Further floods were expected along the Mahanadi River and its tributaries. ▪ Israel: On September 13, at least two people were injured after being stabbed near Jerusalem Central Bus Station during afternoon hours local time. No further details were immediately available, but the assailant was shot dead by security forces. ▪ Mali: On September 13, at least five government soldiers and three Islamist militants were killed in clashes near Manidje in Kolongo commune, Macina cercle, Segou region, during morning hours local time. - 
												
												'Sin' Tax Bill up for Crucial Vote
Headline ‘Sin’ tax bill up for crucial vote MediaTitle Manila Standard Philippines (www.thestandard.com.ph) Date 03 Jun 2019 Section NEWS Order Rank 6 Language English Journalist N/A Frequency Daily ‘Sin’ tax bill up for crucial vote Advocates of a law raising taxes on cigarettes worried that heavy lobbying by tobacco companies over the weekend could affect the vote in the Senate Monday. Former Philhealth director Anthony Leachon and UP College of Medicine faculty member Antonio Dans said a failure of the bill to pass muster would deprive the government’s Universal Health Care program of funding. “Definitely, the lobbying can affect how our senators will behave... how they will vote,” said Leachon, also chairman of the Council of Past Presidents of the Philippine College of Physicians. But Leachon and Dans said they remained confident that senators who supported the sin tax law in 2012 would support the new round of increases on cigarette taxes. These were Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Senators Panfilo Lacson, Francis Pangilinan, Antonio Trillanes IV and re-elected Senator Aquilino Pimentel III. They are also hopeful that the incumbent senators who voted against the increase in the excise taxes on cigarettes in 2012—Senate President Vicente Sotto III, Senate Pro Tempore Ralph Rectp and outgoing Senators Francis Escudero and Gregorio Honasan—would have a change of heart. While Pimentel, who ran in the last midterm elections, supported the increase in tobacco taxes in 2012, he did not sign Senator Juan Edgardo Angara’s committee report, saying the bill should be properly scrutinized as it might result in the death of the tobacco industry. - 
												
												Tracking Conflict Worldwide
CRISISWATCH Tracking Conflict Worldwide CrisisWatch is our global conict tracker, a tool designed to help decision-makers prevent deadly violence by keeping them up-to-date with developments in over 70 conicts and crises, identifying trends and alerting them to risks of escalation and opportunities to advance peace. Learn more about CrisisWatch July 2021 Global Overview JULY 2021 Trends for Last Month July 2021 Outlook for This Month DETERIORATED SITUATIONS August 2021 Ethiopia, South Africa, Zambia, CONFLICT RISK ALERTS Afghanistan, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Zambia, Armenia, Azerbaijan Cuba, Haiti, Syria, Tunisia RESOLUTION OPPORTUNITIES IMPROVED SITUATIONS None Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire CrisisWatch warns of three conict risks in August. Ethiopia’s spreading Tigray war is spiraling into a dangerous new phase, which will likely lead to more deadly violence and far greater instability countrywide. Fighting along the state border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the deadliest since the Autumn 2020 war, could escalate further. More violence could surge in Zambia as tensions between ruling party and opposition supporters are running high ahead of the 12 August general elections. Our monthly conict tracker highlights deteriorations in thirteen countries in July. The Taliban continued its major offensive in Afghanistan, seizing more international border crossings and launching its rst assault on Kandahar city since 2001. South Africa faced its most violent unrest since apartheid ended in 1991, leaving over 300 dead. The killing of President Jovenel Moïse in murky circumstances plunged Haiti into political turmoil. Tunisia’s months-long political crisis escalated when President Kaïs Saïed dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and suspended parliament. - 
												
												Demokratiereport
THE KAS DEMOCRACY REPORT 2008 MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY VOLUME II PUBLISHER Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. EDITORS Karsten Grabow Christian E. Rieck www.kas.de © 2008 Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V. Sankt Augustin / Berlin All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically, without written permission of the publisher. Layout: Switsch Kommunikationsdesign, Cologne Typesetting: workstation gmbh, Bonn This publication was printed with financial support of the Federal Republic of Germany. Printed in Germany. All contributions in this volume reflect the opinion of their authors, not necessarily that of the KAS, unless otherwise stated. ISBN: 978-3-940955-25-8 CONTENTS 3 | PREFACE 5 | INTRODUCTION: OBJECTIVES, METHOD AND STUDY DESIGN 13 | COUNTRY REPORTS BY REGION 15 | AFRICA 17 | NIGERIA 33 | SENEGAL 43 | ASIA 45 | CHINA 59 | GEORGIA 72 | MALAYSIA 82 | PHILIPPINES 94 | THAILAND 101 | EUROPE 103 | BULGARIA 116 | POLAND 126 | RUSSIA 135 | UKRAINE 143 | LATIN AMERICA 145 | BOLIVIA 155 | BRAZIL 165 | VENEZUELA 177 | MIDDLE EAST 179 | EGYPT 189 | TURKEY 199 | ANALYSIS: MEDIA AND MEDIA FREEDOM – DEVELOPMENTS AND TRENDS 214 | PROMOTING FREE MEDIA: THE MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE KONRAD-ADENAUER-STIFTUNG 222 | APPENDIX: QUESTIONNAIRE 227| CONTRIBUTORS 3 PREFACE The KAS Democracy Report describes the state of key democracy sectors in partner countries of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. With the publication of the first three volumes, Media and Democracy (2005), Rule of Law (2006), and Parties and Democracy (2007) the first cycle of the series was completed. This year, the cycle starts again with a study on the media, although the selection of countries differs to some extent from that of 2005. - 
												
												The Role of Indicators in Policy Formulation: the Case of Maternal and Child Health Care Policy in the Philippines
A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Cuenca, Janet S. Working Paper The role of indicators in policy formulation: The case of maternal and child health care policy in the Philippines PIDS Discussion Paper Series, No. 2016-33 Provided in Cooperation with: Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Philippines Suggested Citation: Cuenca, Janet S. (2016) : The role of indicators in policy formulation: The case of maternal and child health care policy in the Philippines, PIDS Discussion Paper Series, No. 2016-33, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Quezon City This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/173554 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. www.econstor.eu Philippine Institute for Development Studies Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas The Role of Indicators in Policy Formulation: The Case of Maternal and Child Health Care Policy in the Philippines Janet S. - 
												
												WHAT's Inside
JULY-AUGUST• JULY-AUGUST 2009 2009 WHAT’S iNSIDE Gloria Arroyo, A Chilling After 20 Traveling Comparison Years, A Everything the The ghost of Recess Philippine head of the political past for the state does abroad has risen in the JVOAEJ is fair game for present A recess, the media not an end A DEATH LIKE NO OTHERn By Hector Bryant L. Macale HE PHILIPPINE press mirrored the nation’s collective grief over the passing of former Pres- ident Corazon “Cory” Aquino last Aug. 1. For at least a week, the death, wake and funeral of Aquino—who fought colon cancer for 16 Tmonths—overshadowed other stories such as Gloria Ma- capagal Arroyo’s recent US trip. Aquino’s death was like no other in recent history, reminding everyone not only of her role in the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship in 1986, but also of the need to resist all forms of tyranny. Because of its significance as well as the context in which Aqui- no’s death occurred, the flood of men, women and children that filled the Manila Cathedral and the streets of the capital to catch a final glimpse of her sent not only a message of grief and gratitude. It also declared that Filipinos had not forgotten Cory Aquino’s singular role in removing a dic- tatorship, and implied that they resent the efforts by the Arroyo regime to amend the 1987 Consti- tution, thus validating the results of the numerous surveys that not Turn to page 14 Photos by LITO OCAMPO 2 • JULY-AUGUST 2009 editors’ NOTE PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER FOR MEDIA FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY Melinda Quintos de Jesus Publisher Luis V. - 
												
												Uimersity Mcrofihns International
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												Bishops Join Mutineers Urging Withdrawal of President
Bishops join mutineers urging withdrawal of president MAKATI CITY, Philippines – Two bishops joined accused mutineers at a hotel calling for the “withdrawal of support” for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Bishop Antonio Tobias of Novaliches and retired Bishop Julio Labayen of Infanta stayed with former military officials at the hotel until late afternoon, when troops moved in and arrested some of the participants, including at least one of the bishops. “I am here to keep the peace, to ensure there is no violence,” Bishop Tobias told the Asian church news agency UCA News, insisting that he “did not know” of any plan for the group to walk out of a trial and march to the hotel. Sen. Antonio Trillanes, Brigadier Gen. Danilo Lim and several other military officers walked out of the Makati City trial court around 11 a.m. Nov. 29 during a hearing on their alleged role in a mutiny against Arroyo in 2003. Makati City is located in metropolitan Manila. As he left the court, Lim read a statement calling on people in the military and public service to withdraw their support for Arroyo and her “illegal and immoral” government. Earlier, Trillanes was on the radio asking the public to join his group in stopping “corruption and abuses” by Arroyo. He said his group would stay in Makati “to force” Arroyo “to step down from office.” Some of the people in court put red bands around their arms and marched with Trillanes and Lim to the hotel. Some marchers carrying guns said they were with the Armed Forces of the Philippines. - 
												
												Senate Committee Chairmanships of the 17Th Congress
PHILIPPINES Senate committee chairmanships of the 17th Congress 1. Accounts – Panfilo Lacson 2. Agrarian Reform – Alan Peter Cayetano 3. Agriculture and Food – Francis Pangilinan 4. Banks, Financial Institutions, and Currencies – Francis Escudero 5. Blue Ribbon – Richard “Dick” Gordon 6. Civil Service and Government Reorganization – Antonio Trillanes IV 7. Climate Change – Loren Legarda 8. Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes and Laws – Franklin Drilon 9. Cooperatives – Juan Miguel Zubiri 10. Cultural communities – Nancy Binay 11. Economic Affairs – Sherwin Gatchalian 12. Education – Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV 13. Electoral Reforms and People’s Participation – Leila De Lima 14. Energy – Sherwin Gatchalian 15. Environment and Natural Resources – Cynthia Villar 16. Ethics and Privileges – Vicente Sotto III 17.`Finance – Loren Legarda 18. Foreign Relations – Alan Peter Cayetano Games and Amusement – Panfilo Lacson Government Corporations and Public Enterprises – Richard Gordon Health and Demography – Risa Hontiveros Justice and Human Rights – Leila De Lima Labor, Employment & Human Resources Development – Joel Villanueva Local Government – Juan Edgardo Angara National Defense and Security – Gregorio Honasan Peace, Unification, and Reconciliation – Gregorio Honasan Public Information and Mass Media – Grace Poe Public Services – Grace Poe Public Order and Dangerous Drugs – Panfilo Lacson Public Works – Manny Pacquiao Rules – Vicente “Tito” Sotto III Science and Technology – Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development – Cynthia Villar Sports – Manny Pacquiao Tourism – Nancy Binay Trade and Commerce – Juan Miguel Zubiri Urban Planning, Housing and Resettlement – JV Ejercito Ways and Means – Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality – Risa Hontiveros Youth – Joel Villanueva .