February, 2020
Inside ‘paedo paradise’ The Gambia where sex beasts are buying African children and toddlers to rape
February 5, 2020 · By Graeme Culliford for www.thesun.co.uk
TRAGIC Gambian children are being sold to British paedophiles for as little as £2-a-time by their desperate parents, Sun Online can reveal. Huge numbers of predators are taking advantage of lax laws in the poverty stricken African country to embark on sick child abuse holidays where they openly target little boys and girls. Sun Online […]
Read More...How a boy from Vietnam became a slave on a UK cannabis farm
February 5, 2020 · By Marilyn Campbell, QUT for www.brisbanetimes.com.au
It was a horrifying death for the 39 Vietnamese nationals found in the back of a trailer in an industrial park in Essex, in October last year. The story shone a light on the subterranean world of people smuggling and human trafficking, reports Cat McShane, specifically the thriving route between Vietnam and the UK. Ba […]
Read More...Immune discovery ‘may treat all cancer’
February 5, 2020 · By James Gallagher for www.bbc.com
A newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers, say scientists. The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests. The findings, published in Nature Immunology, have not been tested in patients, but the researchers say they have “enormous potential”. Experts […]
Read More...Cardinal Tagle urges Filipinos to shun manipulation
February 4, 2020 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle reminded Filipino Catholics to follow the example of the Child Jesus amid the trials and challenges that people encounter in life. In what could be his last big public Mass before heading to the Vatican to take up his new post as prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, […]
Read More...Frustration grows over failed Philippine peace talks
February 4, 2020 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church groups in the Philippines once again called for the holding of peace negotiations between the government and communist rebels to end half a century of insurgency. The call followed reports that both the government and the rebels had dismissed the possible resumption of stalled peace talks. “Go back to the negotiating table and finish […]
Read More...Rise of Chinese-only prostitution catches Philippines by surprise
February 4, 2020 · By Alan Robles for www.scmp.com
Prostitution: supposedly, it is the oldest profession in the world, yet a sudden new development in the sex trade has left Philippine law enforcers scratching their heads: the rise of Chinese prostitutes catering exclusively to Chinese customers. Nearly 300 Chinese sex workers and their clients were rounded up in raids by the National Bureau […]
Read More...What the public needs to know, as polio resurfaces in the Philippines
February 4, 2020 · By Niña Corpuz, ABS-CBN News for news.abs-cbn.com
When the Department of Health (DOH) confirmed last September that polio is back in the country after 19 years, members of the Filipino medical community shook their heads. How could we let this happen? Some were quick to point out that it was the result of vaccine hesitancy after the Dengvaxia controversy in 2017. But […]
Read More...Scepticism rises in Philippines about Chinese projects and Duterte’s support of them
February 4, 2020 · By Richard Heydarian for www.scmp.com
In Virgil’s Aeneid, the Trojan priest Laocoon warns: “Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bringing gifts.” Amid the blossoming Philippine-China relations, many Filipinos, long accustomed to seeing Beijing as a hostile power, have turned into modern Laocoons. There are deep worries, especially among those from the defence establishment, that large-scale Chinese investments are […]
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