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Tag: SONA 2020

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    Categories News SONA 2020 Promise Tracker

    SONA 2020 Promise Tracker: Foreign Relations

    By Meeko Angela Camba  |  Jul 22, 2021 9:14 AM

    In his penultimate State of the Nation Address (SONA) last year, President Rodrigo Duterte circled back to his promise of pursuing an independent foreign policy, stressing that his government would work with any nation “willing to engage us on the basis of equality and mutual respect.”

    Duterte, foreign relations, SONA 2020, SONA promise tracker

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    Categories SONA 2019 Promise Tracker

    #SONA2020 VERA Files’ live fact check

    By VERA Files  |  Jul 28, 2020 12:42 PM

    On July 27, President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his penultimate State of the Nation Address (SONA), lasting approximately an hour and 40 minutes.

    SONA 2020, SONA promise tracker

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    Categories Editor's Pick News SONA 2019 Promise Tracker

    Duterte vows support for business amid COVID-19, threatens telcos with expropriation during SONA

    By VERA Files  |  Jul 27, 2020 10:02 PM

    President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday vowed support for business in order to rev up the economy that has been ravaged by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, while threatening the country’s major telecommunications companies with expropriation if they do not improve their services by December.

    Duterte, SONA 2020, SONA promise tracker

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Despite ban, voices of dissent ring loud and clear

    By Photos by Luis Liwanag  |  Jul 27, 2020 6:07 PM

    Defying the government’s ban on mass gathering on the day of President Duterte’s 5th delivery of his State-of-the-Nation address, hundreds gathered at the University of the Philippines campus to protest the government’s incompetence and growing authoritarianism.

    people's protest, SONA 2020

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