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A U G U ST 30-S EPTEMB ER 5, 2019 Volume 12 - No. 45 • 16 Pages 133-30 32nd Ave., Flushing, NY 11354 • 2500 Plaza S. Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City, NJ 07311 • Tel. (212) 655-5426 • Fax: (818) 502-0858
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‘seriously’ looking to end US birthright citizenship
PRESIDENT Donald Trump said he is “very seriously” considering putting an end to U.S. birthright citizenship, which grants legal citizenship to those born in the country regardless of where their parents were born. “Where you have a baby on our land — you walk over the border, have a baby. Congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Wednesday, August 21. “We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship,” Trump added. “It’s — It’s, frankly, ridiculous.” Trump last publicly criticized birthright citizenship in October 2018 in an interview with Axios, describing birthright citizenship as “a magnet for illegal immigration” and what he called “anchor babies.” He suggested the idea of eliminating it via executive order and argued that the U.S. was “the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States.” Many were quick to correct Trump in pointing out that at least 30 other countries recognize birthright citizenship or “jus soli (law of the soil).”
on Thursday night, August 29. It was not clear, however, if Duterte was able to discuss the international arbitral BEIJING — President Duterte and Chinese court ruling and the existence of Philippine President Xi Jinping assured each other of offshore gaming operations with Xi during continued cooperation and stronger diplomatic their bilateral meeting at the Diayutao State relations between the Philippines and China as Guesthouse. “Let us reaffirm the value of our relationship, they witnessed the signing of six agreements by MARLON
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both personal and official, as well as the trust and respect pursuant to mutual benefit that we have been building for the last three years,” the president said in his opening statement. Among the documents signed by representatives of both countries was the “preferential buyer’s credit loan agreement” for the Philip-
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8 PH companies among Forbes’‘Best Over a Billion’ by RITCHEL
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EIGHT Philippine companies secured spots on Forbes Asia magazine’s inaugural “Best Over a Billion (BOB)” list, which highlights the 200 top-performing listed companies across the Asia-Pacific region with revenues of more than $1 billion. “The goal is to find the region’s best-run companies that are doing well on not just one metric but across many of them. The result is a list that represents the best of Asia-Pacific’s big companies,” said Forbes Asia. The local firms included in the 2019 roster are: Ayala Corporation, Cosco Capital, GT Capital Holdings, JG Summit Holdings, Jollibee Foods Corporation, Megaworld Corporation, San Miguel Food and Bever-
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WHO: PH ranks 3rd with the Duterte pushes for highest number of measles cases revival of family planning by RITCHEL
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In this file photo, dengue patients are seen at a hospital in Cavite. ManilaTimes.net photo by Rene Dilan
REAFFIRMING TIES. President Rodrigo Duterte and People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping discuss matters during the bilateral meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Thursday, August 29. Malacañang photo by Robinson Niñal
THE Philippines ranked third worldwide with the highest incidence of measles over a 12-month period up to June this year with 45,847 cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It noted that, in just the first six months of 2019, the reported cases worldwide were the highest they have been
in any year since 2006, with outbreaks straining health care systems, and leading to serious illness, disability, and deaths in many parts of the world. “Major outbreaks are ongoing in Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, the Philippines, South Sudan, Sudan and Thailand,” WHO said. It also noted that the largest
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PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, August 27, reiterated his support for family planning and pushed for the program’s revival in the next three years. “Ang isang kulang na lang natin actually na how to get it started and you know get it rolling beginning at least in the next three years, ‘yang ibalik
ninyo ‘yung family planning (One thing we lack is actually how to get it started and you know get it rolling beginning at least in the next three years. Let’s bring back family planning),” he said in a speech during the 31st anniversary of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). “I know of only two guys, presidents, who did it and it
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