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Suu Kyi defends court decision to jail Reuters journalists

Reuters
Updated as of Sep 13 12:48 PM

HANOI - Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said two jailed Reuters journalists can appeal their seven-year sentence, and that their jailing had nothing to do with freedom of expression. Read more »

US joins in outcry against Myanmar's jailing of 2 reporters

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 04 09:13 AM

The United States on Monday condemned the jailing in Myanmar of 2 Reuters journalists who had reported on a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in that country, calling it "deeply troubling" and urging the men's immediate release. Read more »

Reuters journalists get 7 years in prison

Stringer, Reuters
Posted at Sep 03 09:03 PM

Detained Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo leave Insein court after listening to the verdict in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday. Read more »

Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar 'state secrets' case

Richard Sargent and Hla-Hla Htay, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 03 02:56 PM

Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets law during their reporting of a massacre of Rohingya Muslims were jailed for seven years Monday, drawing outrage over the attack on media freedom and calls for their immediate release. Read more »

Para ma-delay: Lalaking desperadong umabot sa flight, nanlokong 'may bomba'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 17 03:32 PM

Dahil sa tawag, na-delay ang flight nang 90 minuto para inspeksiyunin muli ang mga pasahero nito kaya doon na nakaabot ang late na lalaki.  Read more »

Duque becomes Colombia's president, promising to unite divided nation

Helen Murphy and Julia Symmes Cobb, Reuters
Posted at Aug 08 06:26 AM

Colombia's President-elect Ivan Duque was sworn in to office on Tuesday, pledging to unite a divided nation behind his plan to toughen a peace accord with Marxist rebels and rekindle economic growth.   Read more »

California defies Trump, plans tighter rules on vehicle emissions

David Shepardson, Reuters
Posted at Aug 08 06:13 AM

California air regulators on Tuesday said they plan to keep tightening state vehicle emissions rules despite a Trump administration proposal last week that would strip the state of the ability to set its own limits.   Read more »

Immigrant parents misled by US when they agreed to deportation - court filing

Reade Levinson and Kristina Cooke, Reuters
Posted at Jul 26 07:05 AM

Dozens of immigrant parents were coerced or misled by U.S. authorities on the Mexico border into signing forms agreeing to be deported quickly without their children, lawyers said in a court filing on Wednesday. Read more »

Lip gloss boss: Kylie Jenner to be youngest self-made billionaire

Reuters
Updated as of Jul 12 06:54 AM

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Reality TV star Kylie Jenner is on track to become the youngest self-made billionaire in the United States thanks to the booming cosmetics company she launched two years ago, Forbes magazine reported on Wednesday.   Read more »

The Wider Image: Metro Manila's slums an endless battle for firefighters

Enrique de Castro, Reuters
Posted at Jun 23 02:39 AM

There have been over 2,200 fires in Metro Manila this year and the majority of these have occurred in slum areas, data from the Bureau of Fire Protection showed.    Read more »

Bored of Facebook news? You're not alone - study

Inna Lazareva, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Jun 14 08:19 AM

LONDON - Many people are switching from Facebook to closed forums like WhatsApp to discuss daily news because of worries about privacy, fake stories and toxic debates, a survey said on Thursday. Read more »

Tumor bumabalik sa mga lalaking pala-yosi: pag-aaral

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 07 05:13 PM

Mas malaki ang tsansang bumalik ang mga tumor ng pasyenteng may prostate cancer kung siya'y mahilig magyosi. Read more »

Film producer Harvey Weinstein indicted for rape

Reuters
Posted at May 31 07:26 AM

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was indicted on Wednesday on charges of rape and a criminal sexual act, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, the first case to emerge from a slew of sexual misconduct allegations against him. Read more »

US and China clash over 'technology transfer' at WTO

Tom Miles, Reuters
Updated as of May 29 07:08 AM

Chinese and U.S. envoys sparred at the World Trade Organization on Monday over U.S. President Donald Trump's claims that China steals American ideas, the subject of two lawsuits and a White House plan to slap huge punitive tariffs on Chinese goods. Read more »

Lava flow stalls, sparing Hawaii geothermal plant from more damage

Jolyn Rosa, Reuters
Posted at May 29 07:03 AM

A lava flow from Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano that damaged a geothermal power station has stalled, as have lava fountains gushing 100 feet (30 meters) into the air, offering momentary relief to an area under siege for 25 days, officials said on Monday. Read more »

Putin: It's important to look for Russia-Japan WWII peace treaty solution

Reuters
Posted at May 27 07:40 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday it was important to patiently look for a solution with Japan that would allow the two countries to finally conclude a World War Two peace treaty that would reflect the strategic interests of both. Read more »

OPINION: The Pulitzer Prize and the Philippines

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at May 17 10:00 PM

Carlos P. Romulo referred to the Pulitzer Prize as “every newspaperman’s dream,” when he received the honor awarded to him late in 1942 at Columbia University in New York City.  Read more »

Pulitzer-winning Filipino journalist tells colleagues: Stay with the fight

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 17 04:03 PM

A Filipino journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on alleged drug war deaths urged his colleagues to stay with the fight despite difficulties facing the free press. Read more »

Pathologist challenges view that American filmmaker killed self in Cebu

Reuters
Posted at Apr 05 11:18 PM

An American cameraman and filmmaker who died in December in a jail in the Philippines suffered blunt-force trauma, and his body had markings inconsistent with the official account by Philippine authorities that he hanged himself, a private U.S. pathologist said. Read more »

Facebook cuts ties to data brokers in blow to targeted ads

David Ingram and Julia Fioretti, Reuters
Posted at Mar 29 04:45 PM

Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network, a step that follows a scandal over how Facebook handles personal information. Read more »