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Follow us on Telegram for the latest updates: https://t.me/mothershipsg Most of us living in Singapore probably wouldn't blink twice at being able to drink water straight from the tap. However, for 26-year-old Ivy Zhang, this was an almost revolutionary change to her life when she first arrived here with her family in 2009, given how they'd had to drill into the ground to obtain clean water back in Myanmar. Zhang initially felt overwhelmed by the change in lifestyle in Singapore and an unfamiliar education system — all while struggling to understand Singlish. But she quickly overcame her difficulties, and forged a new life in Singapore. Today, having lived here for over 10 years, she hopes to be able to settle down permanently in Singapore, and one day be recognised as a "true blue Singaporean". She hung out with the "Crazy Rich Asians" of Myanmar Zhang, who is also known as May Mann Oo in Myanmar, was born in Mandalay to Chinese parents. She described her ... » Learn More about Myanmar girl shares experience of moving to a ‘whole new world’ in S’pore with 24-hour electricity & drinkable tap water

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Coup d'etat and rebellion charges against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV were once again in the spotlight, after President Rodrigo Duterte signed on August 31 a proclamation revoking the amnesty granted to the opposition senator in 2011. Here's a rundown of what happened to Trillanes, from the mutiny that started it all, leading up to the voiding of his amnesty. MUTINY. A group of rebel troops and officers belonging to elite military units face journalists as they wait for the 5:00 pm deadline for their surrender inside the Oakwood Hotel in the suburban financial district of Makati in Manila, 27 July 2003. Photo by Jimin Lai/AFP Rumors have been circulating about junior military officers planning to take action against reported corruption in the armed forces. Among their grievances are the lack of housing and incentives for soldiers, low pay, and the supposed "micromanagement" of then-defense secretary Angelo ... » Learn More about TIMELINE: Trillanes, from mutiny to amnesty

FILE PHOTO: Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul is seen in this undated handout picture. Marieke Wijntjes/Handout via REUTERS DUBAI  — A Saudi court on Monday sentenced prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison, local media reported, in a trial that has drawn international condemnation as Riyadh faces new U.S. scrutiny. Hathloul, 31, has been held since 2018 following her arrest along with at least a dozen other women’s rights activists. The verdict, reported by Sabq and al-Shark al-Awsat newspapers, poses an early challenge to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s relationship with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who has criticized Riyadh’s human rights record. Hathloul was charged with seeking to change the Saudi political system and harming national security, local media said. The court suspended two years and 10 months of her sentence – or most the time already served her arrest on May 15, 2018 – with a ... » Learn More about Saudi court hands prison sentence to women’s rights activist

MANILA, Philippines – At the end of a 6-hour Senate hearing on the kidnap and murder of South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo, Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV made a quick announcement: Jee’s wife, Choi Gyung Jin, will not be leaving the country until his case is solved. “I’ll be keeping an eye out until justice is completely served and until the end of this case. It is not only the Filipino citizens but also Korean citizens in the Philippines and in Korea who are keeping an eye on the situation,” Choi herself would later say, with the help of an interpreter. The kidnap and murder of Jee – at the hands of police – is among the biggest controversies to hit the Philippine National Police (PNP) since it spearheaded a popular but bloody war on drugs. Jee was abducted from his home in Angeles City on October 18, 2016. He was brought to Camp Crame, the PNP headquarters, the same day. There, he was strangled to death allegedly by police assigned to the Anti-Illegal ... » Learn More about Jee Ick Joo case: Tangled webs, inconsistent stories

MANILA, Philippines – Lawyer Cristina Antonio was summoned sometime last week to the barangay hall of San Andres Bukid in Manila, where furious officials demanded an explanation why, without their knowledge, they filed a Supreme Court (SC) petition alleging 35 cases of extrajudicial killings in their area in the last 13 months and pointed to the police as masterminds. “ Ipit sila (they’re caught in the middle). It’s a case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” Antonio told Rappler in an interview held inside the small Makati office of the Center for International Law or Centerlaw , a non-governmental organization that’s been on the forefront of filing cases challenging the bloody drug war of President Rodrigo Duterte. The wrath of barangay officials of San Andres Bukid is understandable, Antonio said. In a volatile situation where people are shamelessly killed inside their homes, everybody can be a walking target. It’s especially harder for the ... » Learn More about Lawyers do dirty groundwork to fight Duterte’s drug war

Editor ’ s Note: In this 3-part series, a Rappler investigative team scrutinized the first batch of files submitted in June 2018 by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to the Supreme Court. Consisting of police reports, the documents were supposed to provide insight into the regularity of police operations in President Rodrigo Duterte ’ s violent campaign against illegal drugs. Part 1 discusses the quality of the files submitted by the OSG, tracks the progress of the case at the SC, and spells out what their implications are. At a glance: After the Supreme Court ordered the Duterte government to submit documents on drug-related killings, it took two years before petitioners got a complete copy of the files for their own analysis. One of the petitioners had to file a motion for contempt against the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) before Solicitor General Jose Calida submitted a second, and supposedly correct, batch of files. Petitioners still have ... » Learn More about Duterte government’s ‘rubbish’ files stall SC drug war case

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – The marathon hearings of the Senate blue ribbon committee led to the discussion of something close to the heart of the Duterte administration: the war on drugs. After 7 hearings , the issues have evolved from a wide range of topics – from the loopholes in the "good conduct time allowance (GCTA) law, prison reform , the drug kingpins of the New Bilibid Prison, and now the involvement of "ninja cops" in illegal drugs. But what raised eyebrows on Tuesday, October 1, was the alleged intervention of Philippine National Police chief General Oscar Albayalde in what seemed to be a "grand cover-up" – as the senators believed – to protect his underlings from dismissal from service over a 2013 case. Roughly a month before Albayalde's retirement on November 8 , the 2013 incident seemed to haunt the country's top cop. What happened? November 29, 2013 10 am – Twelve Pampanga cops conduct a buy-bust operation in ... » Learn More about ‘Spectacle of a grand cover-up’: Senate hearing bares how ‘ninja cops’ remain in service