The Philippine seismology office issued a tsunami warning on Friday after a 7.4 magnitude quake struck off the major southern island of Mindanao. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/10/asia-pacific/philippines-quake-tsunami-warning/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #earthquakes #disasters
Tokyo and Manila have begun using their recently enacted visiting-forces pact, employing it for the first time Tuesday to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations in the Philippine province of Cebu. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/07/japan/japan-philippines-raa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #philippinesjapanrelations #defense #sdf #philippines #china
A Manila marketing agency waged a cyber campaign paid for by China to weaken support for Philippine government policy and to sow discord over the security alliance with the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/asia-pacific/china-infowar-us-philippines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #misinformation #us #china #taiwan #socialmedia
Western media often portray violent uprisings and disasters in the Global South as heroic revolutions or tragic spectacles, applying double standards by portraying similar events at home through a different moral lens. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/03/world/media-hypocrisy-on-insurrections-and-revolutions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #globalsouth #media #nepal #philippines #madagascar #indonesia #thewest #africa #southamerica
In front of Juvy Ytang lay 11 caskets— all victims of a landslide triggered by a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday in the central Philippines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/asia-pacific/philippines-earthquake-daughter-mourn/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #earthquakes
A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake jolted the central Philippines, collapsing buildings and killing at least 20 people on the island of Cebu. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/asia-pacific/strong-quake-philippines-search/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #earthquakes
A tiny juvenile candy crab, measuring a mere centimetre in size, perches on a pink coral. “The coral isa lso her favourite source of nutrition,” says Hoksbergen.
Jade Hoksbergen, #Philippines
Thousands of Filipinos demonstrated in Manila and other parts of the country on Sunday, protesting against what organizers say is widespread corruption within the government. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/22/asia-pacific/politics/philippines-rally-protest-corruption/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #philippines #corruption #ferdinandmarcosjr
China's coast guard said that a Philippine vessel had “deliberately rammed” one of its ships Tuesday, alleging that Manila had organized more than 10 vessels to “illegally intrude” into a South China Sea flash point. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/16/asia-pacific/philippines-china-scarborough-shoal-clash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #china #disputedislands #southchinasea
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says he does not blame people for taking part in street protests "one bit" as anger mounts over a corruption scandal involving phony flood-control projects. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/15/asia-pacific/politics/philippines-president-corruption-protests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #ferdinandmarcosjr #corruption #philippines #southeastasia
The Chinese military denounced a second joint patrol this month in the South China Sea involving the Philippines and partner navies, as tensions in the waterway soar. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/14/asia-pacific/politics/japan-south-china-sea-patrol/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southchinasea #china #pla #philippines #defense #sdf #msdf #disputedislands #usmilitary
Chinese spy and disinformation activities in the Philippines continue at a high pace, one of Manila’s top security officials has warned, prompting a push to update the nation's decades-old anti-espionage laws. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/13/asia-pacific/philippines-espionage-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #china #espionage #southchinasea
The U.S. backed the Philippines in rejecting China’s plan to create a national nature reserve at Scarborough Shoal in the disputed sea that separates the two nations, calling it "destabilizing.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/13/asia-pacific/us-china-scarborough-shoal-nature-reserve/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #scrarboroughshoal #southchinasea #disputedislands #us #marcorubio #philippines
The Philippines is working on a new set of internal rules and protocols to better coordinate the actions of agencies in contentious areas of the South China Sea, as Manila responds to Beijing's gray-zone activities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/asia-pacific/philippines-south-china-sea-rules-of-engagement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #china #pla #southchinasea #disputedislands #indopacific
To boost its military capabilities and bridge key gaps with China, the Philippines is turning to top partners such as Japan for support — part of a multipronged approach that includes defense-industrial tie-ups. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/09/japan/philippines-military-modernization-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #philippines #philippinesjapanrelations #defense #china
Surrounded by Chinese military bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm on the front line of a simmering territorial dispute between Beijing and Manila in the flash point South China Sea. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/01/asia-pacific/philippines-pagasa-island-south-china-sea/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #southchinasea #disputedislands #china #indopacific
Mx Arjuna
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UPDATE 3: check this thread I will try to keep it updated
UPDATE2: nights are becoming dangerous and protest organizers are urging the public to stay home. You can continue to use the below if you want to support the delivery drivers and their surroundings (tell them the food is for them/family/friends and to tip)
Hey Southeast Asians, your Grab app works ACROSS the region. If you'd like to order medical supplies or food for the folks in Jakarta and Bandung, you can.
(Twt links to follow underneath)
#tootSEA#Indonesia#Malaysia#Singapore #thailand #vietnam #philippines#SoutheastAsia
(Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere on fedi)
UPDATE 3: check this thread I will try to keep it updated
UPDATE2: nights are becoming dangerous and protest organizers are urging the public to stay home. You can continue to use the below if you want to support the delivery drivers and their surroundings (tell them the food is for them/family/friends and to tip)
Hey Southeast Asians, your Grab app works ACROSS the region. If you'd like to order medical supplies or food for the folks in Jakarta and Bandung, you can.
(Twt links to follow underneath)
#tootSEA#Indonesia#Malaysia#Singapore #thailand #vietnam #philippines#SoutheastAsia
(Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere on fedi)
A Japanese national living in Japan is suspected of ordering the killing of two fellow Japanese men in Manila, possibly over a financial dispute, Philippine police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/crime-legal/manila-killing-suspects-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippinejapanrelations #guns #philippines #tourism
Jose Takei, an 82-year-old man of Japanese descent who became stateless after being left in the Philippines as a child following the end of World War II, is keen to get Japanese citizenship while he is in good health. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/japan/filipino-japanese-citizenship/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #philippines #wwii #foreignministry #shigeruishiba #citizenship #stateless