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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Can dragon fruit serve as an alternate crop for rice?

By VERA Files | Dec 08, 2022 1:50 PM

Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos said recently that farmers can earn more by planting dragon fruit alternately with rice. “’Yung Taiwan malaki ang demanda ng dragon fruit (Taiwan has a high demand for dragon fruit). Eh [but] they can only plant dragon fruit three or four times, three or four months of the […]

Agriculture, dragon fruit, farmers, Malaysia, Philippines, Sandro Marcos, taiwan, Vietnam

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VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Puwede bang alternatibong pananim sa palay ang dragon fruit?

By VERA Files | Dec 08, 2022 1:50 PM

Ang dragon fruit ba ay isang magandang alternatibong pananim sa palay? Maaari bang i-export ang prutas sa Taiwan?

Agriculture, dragon fruit, farmers, Malaysia, Philippines, Sandro Marcos, taiwan, Vietnam

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri falsely claims PH has ‘very free media’ compared to Malaysia, Singapore

By VERA Files | Nov 14, 2022 4:49 PM

Press freedom in the Philippines does not fare better than Singapore and Malaysia, according to the Paris-based World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders.

ABS-CBN, Impunity, Journalism, Malaysia, Media, Migz Zubiri, Philippines, Press Freedom, red-tagging, Reporters Without Borders, Singapore, Vietnam

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Zubiri na may ‘napakamalayang media’ ang PH kumpara sa Malaysia, Singapore hindi totoo

By VERA Files | Nov 14, 2022 4:49 PM

Iginiit na “hindi patas” ang ginawa ng Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ng United Nations na ipahayag ang kanilang mga alalahanin sa mga ulat ng mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa bansa, kabilang ang pagkakapatay sa mamamahayag na si Percy Lapid, maling iginiit ni Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri na ang Pilipinas ay may “napakamalayang media” kumpara sa mga bansang tulad ng Malaysia, Singapore at Vietnam.

ABS-CBN, Impunity, Journalism, Malaysia, Media, Migz Zubiri, Philippines, Press Freedom, red-tagging, Reporters Without Borders, Singapore, Vietnam

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Was Duterte referring to Najib, instead of Mahathir, as Malaysian PM?

By Vera Files | Jan 21, 2017 1:43 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte credited the arrest of an MNLF leader’s son, and the ability to secure regional waters, to his good working relations with President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, and “Mahathir.”

Duterte, Mahathir, Malaysia, Najib, sema

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Anywhere but here: Deported human trafficking victims dream of life as illegals in Sabah

May 17, 2014 9:30 PM

By JOSEPH ARNEL DELIVERIO BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—They were arrested by authorities for illegally working in Malaysia, and detained for months in cramped cells where they were fed only twice a day. Yet the four Filipino deportees said they would give up everything for a chance to go back, even if it meant going through the whole […]

human trafficking, Malaysia, sabah, tawi-tawi, Trafficking

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No talk of Sabah in Aquino-Najib meet Feb. 27

Feb 17, 2014 7:07 AM

By TESSA JAMANDRE PRESIDENT Aquino and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak are set to meet in Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 27, when Aquino visits Malaysia in his first foreign trip for 2014, a highly reliable foreign affairs source said. Missing from the agenda, however, will be the setting up of a consulate in Sabah, […]

Benigno Aquino III, Malaysia, Najib Razak, sabah

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Civil society takes Malaysia to UN for maltreatment of Filipinos in Sabah

Apr 01, 2013 6:00 AM

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS CONCERNED citizens are hauling the Malaysian government to the United Nations for human rights abuses against Filipinos in Sabah, even as they criticized the Philippine government for lack of outrage and action. Concerned groups and individuals are filing Monday urgent appeals with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay and […]

Malaysia, sabah, UNCHR, unhcr

Agonizing moments at the DFA over Sabah

Mar 31, 2013 11:53 PM

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS WHEN some 30 concerned citizens met before the Holy Week to discuss the appeal to the United Nations for help for Filipinos in Sabah who are being maltreated by Malaysian authorities, they decided they would do it as private citizens and not waste their time getting the support of the Philippine […]

DFA, Malaysia, sabah