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    Duterte visits Hong Kong...

    I think they like him

    Good riddance to Rodrigo Duterte – the president who makes Donald Trump look good.

    Is there any leader on the global stage who is more crass, obnoxious and objectionable than United States President Donald Trump?

    Yes—and, hands down, the ignominious accolade goes to Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, the foul-mouthed fascist who this week was escorted around our fine city by a formidable phalanx of security. This included an elite squad from Hong Kong’s Counterterrorism Response Unit wielding, among other lethal instruments, MP5 submachine guns, and deploying a little-used anti-explosives vehicle in the vanguard of his heavily armed motorcade.

    Snipers were also at the ready as the president–who may soon find himself charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague—made his way to and from his suite at the InterContinental Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.

    Thankfully, no shots were fired—at him or anyone else. The 73-year-old Duterte is now safely returned to the Philippines, and Hong Kong’s counter-terror unit can breathe a sigh of relief. As can we all. He may have offered a very belated apology for the 2010 hostage debacle in Manila, in which eight Hongkongers were killed by a rogue policeman who hijacked their tour bus, but it’s still good riddance to bad rubbish.

    This visit, Duterte’s second trip to the city in 10 months, was not even an official visit; no one invited the Tyrant from Davao to Hong Kong; he just decided to show up, turn parts of the city upside down for three days, hold a self-serving meeting with select Filipinos at a remote location and then go back to killing alleged drug peddlers in his homeland.

    Trump may be drowning in a sea of his own bluster as a special prosecutor edges closer to tying him to Russian interference on his behalf in the 2016 presidential election. Allegations of sexual encounters with porn stars and Playboy models continue to swirl around the White House. But not even the mercurial, relentlessly self-promoting US president can top Duterte for vulgar bombast and general boorish tastelessness and incivility.

    After all, this is the world leader who called former US President Barack Obama “son of a whore”—a descriptor he later also hurled at United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein—and called Pope Francis, of all people to target in the mostly Roman Catholic Philippines, “son of a bitch.”

    In addition, the Philippines’ Misogynist-in-Chief is on record boasting of his many mistresses, joking about raping an Australian missionary and ordering Filipino soldiers to shoot female communist rebels “in the vagina” so as to render them “useless.”

    But the chief obscenity for which Duterte is responsible is his so-called “war on drugs”—which has been more accurately characterised as a “mass murder” and is now the subject of an ICC inquiry.

    According to a 77-page report submitted to the court by Filipino lawyer Jude Sabio, Duterte is directly responsible for “extrajudicial executions and mass murder” over three decades going back to his first election as mayor of Davao City in 1988.

    Since the man known as “The Punisher” became president in 2016, the report states, more than 8,000 people have been killed by police in anti-drug operations—twice as many as the official figure of 4,000, which is in itself an outrage.

    Facing a barrage of criticism both at home and abroad, Duterte has moved to muzzle his critics in the media with threats and intimidation and, in the case of Rappler—a popular news website established in 2012 by a former CNN bureau chief, Maria Ressa—revoking its operating license.

    Duterte is also using his allies in the country’s House of Representatives to mount an impeachment bid against another of his critics, Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno; at the same time, government lawyers are petitioning the court to invalidate Sereno’s appointment on the grounds that she failed to follow rules for financial disclosure when she applied for the position of chief justice in 2012.

    Duterte has made his feelings about Sereno crystal clear, publicly warning her: “I am putting you on notice that I am your enemy and you have to be out of the Supreme Court. I will see to it. And after that, I will request Congress go to the impeachment right away.”

    Here in Hong Kong Duterte has drawn an angry response from many in the Filipino community for his role in last month’s abrupt recall of Jalilo Dela Torre, the Philippines’ well-liked and respected former labour attaché, who was known for his efforts to combat human trafficking and to lend support to the more than 190,000 Filipina domestic helpers who work, often under difficult conditions, in Hong Kong.

    Indeed, prior to his recall two years into a three-year appointment, Dela Torre had called out Hong Kong as a base for crooked employment agencies that have made a practice of luring Filipina helpers into paying fees of up to nearly HK$44,000 for placement in high-income jobs in Russia, Turkey and Brazil which never materialised, leaving victims of the scam stranded, penniless and vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.

    Why would the president of a country whose biggest export is people want to remove an official who is a proven champion of this too-often cheated and mistreated mass of human capital?

    That’s what a stubborn contingent of protesters wanted to know during Duterte’s Hong Kong visit, but of course they could not get anywhere near his militarised motorcade or barricaded hotel; nor were they among the 2,000 guests invited to meet the president on Thursday at Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, a location seemingly chosen for its remoteness and isolation, at a time when most Filipina workers in the city would be serving dinner and cleaning up the dishes.

    Donald Trump sends his thanks and appreciation, Mr President—you make him look good.

    https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/04/1...ump-look-good/



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    Edited by FRED.
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    Yellow mafia? Kent Ewing the reporter is white; as for pinays turning out in droves in Honkers from experience of living there for four and a half years they would turn out in droves for the opening of an envelope read the article's comments ...

    Dennis ET · Quezon City, Philippines:

    As a Filipino living in the Philippines, I believe the author's opinion is based on facts. It's all in the news. What "no proof and full of hearsay" are you talking about? Umuwi ka ng Pinas at dito ka manirahan para may personal knowledge ka sa nangyayari sa Pinas.



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    Kent Ewing has no dog in the fight, he just says it as it is. He isn't anti-pinoy though, he did a very good article on the abuse pinay DH's get in Honkers



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    edited by fred!!
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    Duterte eats in Jollibees. Give the guy some credit.

    By the way Jollibees is opening it's first outlet in London this year.

    Yum burgers all round.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ako Si Jamie View Post
    Give the guy some credit.
    Credit for eating in Jolibee? Jolibee opened in Toronto a few weeks back. Filipinos queued for SEVEN hours overnight to buy one! I can't remember the temperatures that night but at least below -10

    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Hmm ... with the Aquino/Cojuangco dynasty's grubby "influence" in South East Asian newspaper circulation generally, journos AREN'T likely given much choice as to what they can report.
    Hong kong journalism was always different from PI journalism Arthur. I have had 2 friends who worked on HK papers, particularly the SCMP. Pinoy journalists aren't given much choice as to what they can report, its always been known as a dangerous country for journos.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    Credit for eating in Jolibee?
    Thought you'd find that funny.


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    I did chuckle. I was in a Japanese restaurant last night with a couple of guys, very nice place, both those guys had been to the Philippines and neither finds Jolibee edible



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    I did chuckle. I was in a Japanese restaurant last night with a couple of guys, very nice place, both those guys had been to the Philippines and neither finds Jolibee edible
    As fast food goes I prefer Chow King or those mobile burger bars you find in the provinces near Manila.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ako Si Jamie View Post
    As fast food goes I prefer Chow King or those mobile burger bars you find in the provinces near Manila.
    Have you ever spent time in Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar or Thailand old bean?
    Last edited by Arthur Little; 16th April 2018 at 12:38. Reason: Capitalised initial letters of countries



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    Have you ever spent time in Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar or Thailand old bean?
    Not really. I haven't been to the first three.


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    If you like good street-food as opposed to some chicken or fish - just grilled and that's it - then visit the area. I ate at a street food vendor's last week that's actually got a Michelin star.
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    Breakfast....
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    The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    Have you ever spent time in Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar or Thailand old bean?
    Please don't do that again Arthur, you have a history of altering my posts without asking, though this is the first time you ever acknowledged it is you. The countries read the same with capitals or without, I really am not bothered if you find my lack of capitals irksome



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    Please don't do that again Arthur, you have a history of altering my posts without asking, though this is the first time you ever acknowledged it is you. The countries read the same with capitals or without, I really am not bothered if you find my lack of capitals irksome
    You'll have to accept that Arth is most likely a perfectionist when it comes to the English language old chap. At least he's not moaning at you for it.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ako Si Jamie View Post
    You'll have to accept that Arth is most likely a perfectionist when it comes to the *English language old chap. At least he's not moaning at you for it.

    Thanks, Jamie. Yes, you're right, I AM, indeed, a perfectionist ... especially when it comes to good, clear, grammatically-correct written, typed or printed forms of *its presentation.

    FAO Tawi2

    And that includes IMPORTANT issues like punctuation - followed by appropriate spacing between sentences - together with the use of Capital Initial Letters for Proper Nouns ... such as names of people/countries. Because that ^ was the way my generation, plus several *generations of 's kids before *mine, were traditionally, taught back in Elementary school.

    However, being a perfectionist doesn't make me infallible ... for, as most here know (moreover, accept!) I'm pretty much a luddite with computer jargon!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Thanks, Jamie. Yes, you're right, I AM, indeed, a perfectionist ... especially when it comes to good, clear, grammatically-correct written, typed or printed forms of *its presentation.

    FAO Tawi2

    And that includes IMPORTANT issues like punctuation - followed by appropriate spacing between sentences - together with the use of Capital Initial Letters for Proper Nouns ... such as names of people /countries. Because that ^ was the way my generation, plus several *generations of 's kids before *mine, were traditionally, taught back in Elementary school.

    However, being a perfectionist doesn't make me infallible ... for, as most here know (moreover, accept!) I'm pretty much a luddite with computer jargon!
    This is where the problem lies, and one of the reasons I don't contribute on such a regular basis.
    Arthur, I find your posts difficult to read and this one in particular very ironic using hyphens where there shouldn't be any and total inappropriate use of capital letters.
    The difference being that I'm not in a position to change your post to make it easier to read and more pleasing on the eye, and even if I was I wouldn't.


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    Arthur's posts are always decorative and if I'm being totally honest they're a tad more difficult to read than other people's but I've never found them irksome.

    The paragraph dodgers or those who type in text speak are a different story though.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonH View Post
    This is where the problem lies, and one of the reasons I don't contribute on such a regular basis. Arthur, I find your posts difficult to read ...
    ... really, Simon? Perhaps a visit to Specsavers might be in order.

    Quote Originally Posted by SimonH View Post
    ... and this one in particular very ironic using hyphens where there shouldn't be any and total inappropriate use of capital letters.
    WHY pick on that post to criticise a style I've been using for years ... italicising (not hyphenating) key words for emphasis; the same reason where I use Capitals. Could it be Tawi's response to the alterations I'd made to #11 provided too good an opportunity to miss "having ANOTHER pop" at me ... or what?


    Quote Originally Posted by SimonH View Post
    The difference being that I'm not in a position to change your post to make it easier to read and more pleasing on the eye, and even if I was I wouldn't.
    Oh, given half a chance ... ... I'm not so sure you wouldn't!


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    Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
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    What to ... Tulsa?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    What to .... Tulsa?
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    You wish!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    ... really, Simon? Perhaps a visit to Specsavers might be in order.



    WHY pick on that post to criticise a style I've been using for years ... italicising (not hyphenating) key words for emphasis; the same reason where I use Capitals. Could it be Tawi's response to the alterations I'd made to #11 provided too good an opportunity to miss "having ANOTHER pop" at me ... or what?




    Oh, given half a chance ... ... I'm not so sure you wouldn't!
    Are you suggesting that I don't know the difference between an italic and a hyphen (-)

    Another pop If that's the way you see it then fair enough, I just find it ironic that you correct others whilst capitalising to make an emphasis.

    Why not concentrate on writing in your own unique style, which obviously takes time and effort and let others do the same

    There is, after all an 'edit post' option for anyone who feels the need to edit their own post


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    ... 'fraid it seems I may have [inadvertently] ruffled a few feathers on this thread, for reasons I've already explained. Therefore, I apologise forANY [unintended] offence caused.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    ... 'fraid it seems I may have [inadvertently] ruffled a few feathers on this thread, for reasons I've already explained. Therefore, I apologise forANY [unintended] offence caused.


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