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Filipino seafarers stranded in China for 17 months appeal for help
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 14) Thirteen Filipino seafarers who have been stranded in China are begging for assistance to help them leave the ship they have been stuck in for one year and five months now.
The bulk carrier MV Angelic Power is currently anchored in South China. The vessel carrying the Filipino crew that came from Indonesia reached Guangzhou s port last year. But the restrictions brought by the pandemic and legal issues hounding their company have delayed the seafarers’ homecoming.
Seafarer Leonardo Lansang told CNN Philippines that they were detained by the Guangzhou Maritime Court on Dec. 11 due to an economic dispute between the cargo receiver Guangzhou South China Coal Trade Center Co and the ship s owners Angeliki Dynamic Investment Corp. He added their passports were taken, leaving them to become hostages. He also said they were abandoned by t
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Our best Filipino books of 2020
Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff
Updated Dec 29, 2020 2:57:26 PM
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endIndex: We asked a few critics, writers, and publishers to give us some of their best or favorite reads of 2020.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) I’d like to think there are more Filipinos who read this year. The success of online book fairs such as Aklatan and the ease of having a book or books delivered to your home have certainly satiated our need to explore worlds elsewhere or understand the direness of our situation.
In Glenn Diaz’s essay on the function of fiction in the time of the pandemic, he says, “Fictional stories are most ‘instructive,’ I feel, in these moments of overlaps and slippages, when they approximate our ‘real’ experiences and perceptions just enough that we are jarred to take a second hard look. What fiction provides is not ‘information’ or ‘facts’ in the way that guidebooks or think pieces dis
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