"Begum Zia is not getting the treatment she needs. She needs a liver transplant. She urgently needs advanced treatment abroad," said Professor FM Siddiqui, one of the doctors on the medical board
MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Saturday denied allegations that its personnel harassed the wife of an onion farmer from Pangasinan who had appeared in a Senate hearing. In a statement, the PNP said officers of the Bayambang municipal police visited Merlita Gallardo at her house in response to an advisory letter from the provincial office of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), requesting verification and gathering of additional information on the alleged suicide incidents of Gallardo's husband and four other farmers from Bayambang, Pangasinan. Gallardo appeared before the Senate agriculture, food, and agrarian reform committee on Monday. She said they went into debt in 2021 due to losses from planting onions in Pangasinan. This was allegedly the reason why her husband killed himself. Gallardo said a few days after the hearing, policemen came to their house and urged her to sign a sworn statement. "The PNP would like to clarify that the inci
thank you tens of thousands of opposition supporters in bangladesh have gathered in the capital dhaka for a rally demanding the government step down. security in the city is tight, and many people are staying off the streets, fearing violence. the bangladesh nationalist party, or bnp, accuses the government of prime minister sheikh hasina of ruining the economy and stifling democracy. bnp chief, khalida zia, and other leaders were arrested ahead of the rally. our south asia correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan, told us how the government is responding to the protests. well, what we re hearing from dhaka at the moment is that it is hundreds of thousands who have gathered at a site in bangladesh s capital for this mass anti government protests. in the days running up to this protest, there have been violent clashes between government security forces and supporters of the opposition, the bangladesh national party. there have been hundreds of arrests, the offices of the bangladesh national p
PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr. (File photo) MANILA - The Philippine National Police (PNP) announced on Thursday that it continues to block disinformation attempts on social media which include posts on fake crime incidents that continue to be reposted online and cause undue panic and fear. In a statement, PNP chief, Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr., said the Anti-Cybercrime Group is conducting its own investigation to gather more inputs to support its request for social networking giant Facebook to permanently take down posts that have been fact-checked as "fake news". "Please always be mindful of the authenticity of the information and the credibility of its source. Unverified information or any information that cannot be independently validated as factual should always be dealt with caution and prudence, especially if the source is dubious or unknown," Azurin said in a statement. A 2017 post on Facebook about the alleged discovery of a dismembered body in Quezon City ha