Skip to the content
VERA Files banner logoVERA Files
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt

Tag: 31st Asean Summit

  • STATE VISIT MORANDANTE-30.jpg
    Categories Commentary

    ASEAN COC framework affirms Duterte’s policy shift in PH dealing with China

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Nov 20, 2017 11:31 PM

    The Philippines’ major shift in foreign policy which is to talk with China bilaterally on the territorial dispute over Scarborough shoal has gotten affirmation from ASEAN with the adoption of the Framework of the Code of Conduct for the South China Sea in last’s weeks ASEAN summit.

    31st Asean Summit, ASEAN50, PH-China

  • EAST ASIA RODRIGUEZ5(1).jpg
    Categories Commentary

    When Leaders meet

    By Lauro Baja, Jr.,  |  Nov 18, 2017 10:33 PM

    The occasion has always been fun especially if one is fond of pantomime like the kabuki drama of Japan or Wayang shadow play of Indonesia. The actors in kabuki wear masks that keep the audience guessing who they are and what their plans are; in Wayang they act behind a transparent curtain as they try to convey their message using only action with gestures.

    31st Asean Summit, ASEAN50

  • etCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Screen grab from RTVM video..jpg
    Categories Commentary

    Trudeau ‘owned’ the Manila East Asia Summit

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Nov 15, 2017 11:04 AM

    There was a collective squeal of kilig when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau strode into the cavernous main briefing room of the International Media Center of the 31st Asean Summit and related summits where about a thousand journalists, government officials and events staff gathered for the first press conference of a visiting leader attending the EAS summit.

    31st Asean Summit, ASEAN50, Trudeau in Manila

Network Memberships

VERA Files IFCN Badge
VERA Files Facebook Third-Party Fact Checking Badge
GIJN Member
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

Be relevant. Subscribe to the VERA Files newsletter.

* indicates required


  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt
  • Viber

© 2022 VERA Files

Privacy Policy

  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Reddit
  • Save to your Google bookmark
  • Save to Pocket