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<span style="color: magenta;">Senator Leila de Lima reiterates that the<a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/live-riot-at-bilibid-hold-press.html"> allegations</a> against her have been <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/live-riot-at-bilibid-hold-press.html">fabricated</a> by President Rodrigo Duterte and his men who are '<a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/">cowards, fools, liars</a>' </span></h2>
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<a href="http://getupdatedph.blogspot.com/">ARREST ME NOW</a>. Senator Leila De Lima <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/">challenges</a> President Rodrigo Duterte to <a href="http://todaysupdateph.blogspot.com/2016/09/live-riot-at-bilibid-hold-press.html">arrest</a> her immediately, saying it is what the President wants, after all.</h3>
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<br /><b>MANILA, Philippines – An emotional Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday, September 28, challenged President Rodrigo Duterte to arrest her immediately on the basis of her alleged links to illegal drug trade in the national penitentiary.<br /><br />De Lima denied anew all allegations against her, reiterating these are only "fabricated" by the President and his men, whom De Lima called "cowards, fools, and liars."</b><div>
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<b>De Lima said she has been fearing for her life, especially now that the administration is doing all it can to malign her. The senator earlier left her home after her address was publicized in the House probe into her alleged role in the proliferation of drugs in the New Bilibid Prison.<br /><br /><br />De Lima got the ire of Duterte even before she launched a probe into the spate of extrajudicial killings under his term. When she was Commission on Human Rights chair during the Arroyo administration, she investigated Duterte, then Davao City mayor, in connection with the Davao Death Squad.<br /><br /><br />Aside from the House inquiry, De Lima is facing two ethics complaints and possible criminal and administrative charges from the Department of Justice. She was also ousted as chair of the Senate committee on justice and human rights.<br /><br /><br />Laughingstock of the world?<br /><br /><br />The embattled senator then told Duterte to stop the "desperate" attacks, saying he is now the laughingstock of the world because of his antics and his "desperation" to get back at her.<br /><br /><br />"Tama na po, in your desperation, Pangulo, para siraan 'nyo ako, hindi 'nyo na iniisip na kung anong nagiging hitsura 'nyo sa mata ng bayan at mundo. Kayo na po pinagtatawanan…'di po ako," she said.<br /><br /><br />(Please stop it. In your desperation, Mr President, to malign me, you didn't consider how the nation and the world would see you. You are now a laughingstock...not me.)</b><br /><br /><center>
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<b>De Lima said Duterte's apology to Pangasinan 5th District Representative Amado Espino Jr and two other Pangasinan officials the President earlier named as part of a drug matrix is solid proof that Duterte's allegations and his so-called drug matrix are not credible.<br /><br />"Inosente po ako, tama na, nagkakamali na kayo, iba-iba na version 'nyo. Kung anu-ano iniimbento 'nyo. Tama na po (I'm innocent. Stop it. You're making mistakes, you have different versions. You're inventing all sorts of things. Stop it)," she said.<br /><br />Despite her friends' suggestions, De Lima said she would not leave the country to "escape," saying "there is nothing to escape from."<br /><br />"I want to fight here in my country. 'Di ako pinalaki ng tatay ko na maging duwag (I wasn't raised by my father to be a coward)," she said..<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />SOURCE: <a href="http://www.rappler.com/nation/147572-de-lima-duterte-arrest-me-now">RAPPLER</a></b><br />
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WATCH: Emotional De Lima dares Duterte: 'Arrest me now! I'll wait for you'.

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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">The ASEAN Charter says that 'the Chairmanship of ASEAN shall rotate annually, based on the alphabetical order of the English names of Member States'</span></h2>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">MANILA, Philippines – "</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">Nagmura. Hinusgahan. Naging ASEAN Summit Chairman </em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">(He cursed. He was judged. Then he became ASAN Summit Chairman)."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">"</span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">Habang ang ibang Pilipino ay minamaliit siya... ang mga lider ng iba't ibang bansa ay humahanga naman sa kanya at hinirang pa siya bilang chairman ng ASEAN 2017</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px;">(While other Filipinos belittle him...leaders of different countries admire him and even made him chairman of ASEAN 2017)."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />On YouTube, a video also proudly proclaimed: "Nasungkit ni President Duterte ang ASEAN chairmanship (President Duterte has clinched the ASEAN chairmanship)...We are proud to (sic) you."<br /><br /><br />(Watch the Duterte supporters' YouTube video below)<br /><br /><br />Posts with these words went viral after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, on September 8,accepted the Philippine chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2017.<br /><br /><br />Did Duterte "win" the ASEAN chairmanship as some of his supporters claim?<br /><br /><br />No, based on the ASEAN Charter.<br /><br /><br />Chapter X, Article 31 of the ASEAN Charter states: "The Chairmanship of ASEAN shall rotate annually, based on the alphabetical order of the English names of Member States."<br /><br /><br />The Philippines received the ASEAN chairmanship from Laos, the host of the ASEAN Summit this year.</span><div class="p1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 8px;">
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<b><i><span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">INCOMING CHAIRMAN. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte takes a bow in Vientiane, Laos, after accepting Philippines' ASEAN in 2017. Photo by King Rodriguez/PPD</span></i></b></h3>
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<b><i></i></b>The Phillippines has chaired ASEAN thrice over the past 40 years, according to the regional bloc's website:<ul class="ul1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-top: 0px;">
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Chapter X, Article 32 of the ASEAN Charter defines the following roles of the ASEAN chairman:<ul class="ul1" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-top: 0px;">
<li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">To "actively promote and enhance the interests and well-being of ASEAN, including efforts to build an ASEAN Community through policy initiatives, coordination, consensus, and cooperation"</li>
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<li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">To "ensure an effective and timely response to urgent issues or crisis situations affecting ASEAN, including providing its good offices and such other arrangements to immediately address these concerns"</li>
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Duterte said when he accepted the ASEAN chairmanship on September 8, "The Philippines is ready and willing to steer and guide the association."</blockquote>
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