COVID food pantry operators draw accusations of communism in the Philippines By Barnaby Lo
April 26, 2021 / 4:56 AM / CBS News
Manila, Philippines Julie Ann de Leon is homeless and jobless. At 52, she also has four children to feed. She used to make up to $15 per day helping drivers of jeepneys, the Philippines version of mini-bus taxis, find passengers in Manila. But coronavirus lockdowns have upended the public transport sector, and De Leon is lucky now to bring home 75 cents in a day.
Julie Ann de Leon visits the Maginhawa community food pantry in Quezon City, a suburb of the Philippines capital Manila, April 26, 2021.
UP open to talk with DND, demands clarity of claim on NPA recruitment By TED CORDERO, GMA News
Published January 23, 2021 10:26am The University of the Philippines administration is open to a dialogue with the Department of National Defense to discuss DND s termination of a 31-year-old agreement with the institution, but wants more information about allegations that students were recruited for the communist insurgency. “Gaya ng sinabi na namin, ang UP naman laging open sa dialogo lalo na sa mga bagay na pareho nito,” UP Public Affairs vice president Elena Pernia said in an interview on Dobol B sa News TV on Saturday.