Public prosecutors on Tuesday sought a 23-year prison term for a senior member of the Philippines-based "Luffy" Japanese crime ring that allegedly masterminded a series of robbery and fraud cases across Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/japan/crime-legal/luffy-sentence-request/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippines #japanesecourts #fraud #gangs #socialmedia
As 27 million Filipino students returned to school in June, teachers' groups said classrooms remained ill-equipped to withstand climate disasters and prevent learning loss due to insufficient funding for education. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/10/sustainability/philippines-green-schools-climate-risks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #philippines #climatechange #schools #environment #heatwaves #unesco
China's aggressiveness in the Indo-Pacific is rooted in long-standing strategic ambitions that have nothing to do with any U.S. policy, the Philippines' top defense official said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/asia-pacific/politics/philippine-defense-chief-us-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #philippines #southchinasea #us #asean
Japan will export used navy destroyers to the Philippines to strengthen its deterrence against China's maritime expansion, the Yomiuri newspaper reported. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/06/japan/japan-gives-philippines-used-destroyers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sdf #msdf #philippines #china #defense
A senior member of a crime ring that allegedly masterminded a series of robbery and fraud cases across Japan pleaded guilty at the first hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/02/japan/crime-legal/luffy-first-hearing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippines #luffy #japanesecourts #fraud #socialmedia
Days after the Philippine Senate declined to launch the impeachment trial of the country's vice president, two interviews with Filipinos arguing for and against the move went viral. Neither were real. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/26/asia-pacific/politics/ai-sara-duterte-impeachment-philippines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #ai #deepfakes #misinformation#saraduterte #philippines
@sbb@c.im
Weird, I never had issues to connect to my #xmpp|d from the #Philippines (also worked well from #Vietnam, #Malaysia, #China and #Taiwan) via standard ports. I only had to use other ports or #Tor in some shitty airport wifis.
@raucao@kosmos.social @debacle@framapiaf.org
@sbb@c.im
Weird, I never had issues to connect to my #xmpp|d from the #Philippines (also worked well from #Vietnam, #Malaysia, #China and #Taiwan) via standard ports. I only had to use other ports or #Tor in some shitty airport wifis.
@raucao@kosmos.social @debacle@framapiaf.org
@raucao @debacle Another anecdote: A friend of mine in the #Philippines couldn't connect to my #XMPP server in #Singapore, *until* he turned on a VPN with an exit node in Singapore. There's all sorts of strange QOS rules lurking in the various ISPs' routers here in Asia.