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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Remulla falsely claims ICC has no member in ASEAN

By VERA Files | Jan 30, 2023 4:35 PM

Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla inaccurately claimed that no other country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Remulla made the false statement during a Jan. 27 press conference when he was asked if the Marcos administration is discussing the possibility of having the […]

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Fact Check Filipino

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Remulla na walang miyembro ang ICC sa ASEAN hindi totoo

By VERA Files | Jan 30, 2023 4:35 PM

Hindi totoo ang sinabi ni Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla na walang bansa sa Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) na miyembro ng International Criminal Court (ICC).

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Commentary

To mediate in Myanmar, ASEAN needs a new template

By Johanna Son
Reporting ASEAN | Mar 13, 2021 10:35 AM

Asean hasn’t been gaining fans from its handling of the Myanmar military’s coup. But if it is able to craft a new template, the grouping may still count as the best pragmatic bet for getting a conversation going with that country’s men in uniform in order to, first, stop the brutal crackdown on its people.

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News

US Influence in Southeast Asia hangs by a thread-ASEAN survey

By Charmaine C. Deogracias | Jan 23, 2020 4:20 PM

If the 10-member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations were to choose between US and China, it’s a 7-3 win by China, according to “The State of Southeast Asia: 2020 Survey Report” published by the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.

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Fact Check Filipino

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Mocha Uson mali sa pahiwatig na si Duterte ang pinakahusay na lider sa ASEAN

By VERA Files | Nov 05, 2019 9:12 PM

Ipinahiwatig ni Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Deputy Administrator Margaux “Mocha” Uson na si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ang “pinakamahusay” sa mga pinuno ng Southeast Asia matapos na mabigyan ng number 10 na football jersey ng Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) sa Thailand noong Nob. 2.

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FACT CHECK News

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Mocha Uson wrongly implies Duterte is ‘best’ leader in ASEAN

By VERA Files | Nov 05, 2019 2:53 PM

Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Deputy Director Margaux “Mocha” Uson insinuated President Rodrigo Duterte was the “best” among Southeast Asian leaders after being given a number 10 football jersey by the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) in Thailand on Nov. 2.

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Commentary

ASEAN Sets Sail with Its Indo-Pacific Vision

By Kavi Chongkittavorn | Sep 22, 2019 10:50 AM

BANGKOK (Reporting ASEAN) – A week before ASEAN leaders gathered for their 34th Summit here in late June, an article in Indonesia’s ‘Jakarta Post’ daily detailed disagreements between Cambodia and Singapore over the content of the draft ‘ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific’.

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ASEAN at 50 News

ASEAN survey: PH experts distrust China but recognize its influence

By Charmaine C. Deogracias | Feb 21, 2019 10:46 AM

A recent online survey among regional affairs experts showed that while the Philippines looks to China to provide the “alternative regional leadership in the wake of perceived US disengagement,” it does not trust its intentions.

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Commentary

Becoming ASEAN, two decades later

By Kavi Chongkittavorn* | Dec 30, 2018 4:58 PM

Would ASEAN-10 survive at all with such a huge development gap, not to mention vast differences in political cultures among its member states in development and vast differences in political cultures?

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FACT CHECK

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Story that Duterte is the new ‘ASEAN country coordinator’ incomplete, MISLEADING

By VERA FILES | Nov 20, 2018 8:31 PM

A report published on Nov. 15 by website ddsonline.live claiming that President Rodrigo Duterte was named the new country coordinator of the ASEAN because of the group’s confidence in him is misleading.

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