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To give everyone a bit of context to the tagalog swear word used by Duterte. In America(and Canada where I live) its the same equivalent of someone using FFS when one is exasperated or irritated. Not that I'm defending the use of the word but media outlets here in North America are completely...

Obama cancels meeting with new Philippine President Duterte By Josh Lederman And Kathleen Hennessey The Associated Press VIENTIANE, Laos – President Barack Obama called off a planned meeting Tuesday with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, seeking distance from a U.S. ally’s leader...

To be fair, its quite hypocritical for Obama or any other American leader to criticize other nations on human rights whilst turning a blind eye to others.

I believe since around 2009-ish.

MANILA, Philippines – The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has authorized the return to Indonesia of 168 nationals who were arrested for illegal possession of valid Philippine passports. Deportation proceedings for the Indoniesian nationals have been dropped, said BI Spokesperson Ma. Antonette...

Nature of peacekeeping no longer fits demands of conflict zones: Sajjan Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says what Canada will ask its soldiers to do in Africa can no longer be called peacekeeping because the term doesn’t reflect modern demands of stabilizing a conflict zone – something...

That is correct. Its not that I stand for extrajudicial killings or vigilantism, I'm just bemused that these activists on their stand against Duterte whilst completely ignoring the side of these drug dealers/pushers.

I'm sure that given the current situation in Mindanao the army is fast tracking the deployment of these vehicles. An interesting tidbit a fellow forumer gave me is that in the upcoming ADAS, Elbit systems are there exhibiting their products again. With the current trend of defense policies under...

I agree with all your points especially the last part. My first instinct was to compare this issue with what other countries have done with their own war of drugs. Personally I'd rather the government spend its money on helping victims through rehab. Its a whole different case in the Philippines...

Whatever mandate these "human rights activists" are trying to achieve with Duterte, they need to realize that they have much bigger issues elsewhere around the world.

As I cannot post any links yet, I would refer you to the Maxdefense blog. There in his latest entry he has in detail everything that has been released by the government with regards to the Hyundai & GRSE offers.

Possible but highly unlikely. If the Philippines really only wanted a Korean product then they would have done a g2g deal instead with HHI. All was going well with GRSE before the the issue came up and the project was planned to be awarded months ago while the previous administration was still...

The Philippine Army is finally getting a new BDU to replace its decades old design.

I'd like to think so as well. I haven't really heard any news about the PA trying to acquire such vehicles just yet. The good thing is that at least the PA is proactively replenishing cavalry & mech units with refurbished M113's.

His off the cuff remarks I could really really do without. But other than that his progressive policies and reforms are what the Philippines needs right now to sustain continued economic growth.

ABS-CBN & Inquirer ran headlines of the ASG spokesperson claiming responsibility of the attacks.

Are there no export restrictions on them?

ZAMBOANGA CITY—The number of Philippine troops running after the Abu Sayyaf in the southern island province of Sulu is expected to swell to about 9,000 by next week, the Armed Forces said on Thursday, amid taunts by the ruthless kidnap-for-ransom group that it was prepared for a “jihad.” The...

My bad, what I meant was the RBU launchers and CIWS guns.

Actually for the ASCM's it will get are most likely be the Korean C-Star as the Navy is already acquiring Korean torpedos for the helicopters that are to be assigned to these frigates. There hasn't been any info on HHI's SAM and I can only speculate it might be Korean as well. One thing about...