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Top 25 Most Spoken Languages in the World 2024

English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi stand out as the world’s most spoken languages, with approximately 1.5 billion, 1.1 billion, and 610 million speakers worldwide. These languages are not only widely spoken but are also experiencing rapid growth.

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Published at 2024-03-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, People

Tags: Chinese, English, English language, Tagalog, language

Philippines Launches Website on South China Sea Arbitration Win

The Philippines on Wednesday launched a website containing "official information" about Manila's arbitration victory against Beijing in their South China Sea territorial dispute. Marking the seventh anniversary of the July 12, 2016, ruling that voided China's sweeping claims over the contested waterway, the site's launch represents the latest effort by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s administration to firm up Manila's position in the dispute.

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Published at 2023-07-11 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : History, Politics

Tags: China, Chinese, Manila, Marcos

'Monster' Chinese Ship Joins Swarm

THE world's largest coast guard ship has joined other Chinese vessels that have been swarming near the Ayungin Shoal, which is inside the Philippines' exclusive economic zone (EEZ). According to United States-based national security expert Ray Powell, the CCG (China Coast Guard) 5901, nicknamed "the monster" because of its size, joined another CCG vessel.

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Published at 2023-07-15 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Legal, Politics

Tags: China, Chinese, South China Sea, country, international, sea

International Tourism Receipts Rocket Nearly Eightfold to over $1.4B

International tourism receipts clocked in at $1.415 billion last year, marking a 7.690-fold increase over $184 million in 2021, albeit still a 71.2 per cent decrease from 2019’s record $4.919 billion, according to the Ministry of Tourism’s Tourism Indicators 2022 report.

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Published at 2023-03-14 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Recreation, Travel

Tags: Chinese, Tourism, international

PH to Deport 40,000 Chinese Workers in Crackdown on Online Gambling Industry

The Philippines will stop operations of 175 offshore gambling firms and deport about 40,000 Chinese workers as part of a crackdown on the notoriously opaque online gaming industry.

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Published at 2022-09-27 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Legal, Technology

Tags: China, Chinese, Workers, gambling

New Anti-Slavery Law Will Impose Cost on China for Its Genocide in Xinjiang

New U.S. legislation aimed to stop the use of slave labor in China’s Xinjiang region has the potential to severely disrupt America’s $150 billion fashion industry. At risk is the industry’s access to the 20 percent of the world’s cotton that’s produced in the region, and the fate of 1 million Uyghurs held in China’s prison camps there.

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Published at 2021-12-28 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Politics

Tags: China, Chinese, Rights, companies, industry

China Flexes Sea Power with New Foreign Ship Law

A new Chinese legal requirement demands that multiple classes of foreign vessels traversing waters claimed by Beijing must provide detailed information to state authorities and take aboard Chinese pilots. The new maritime law, which came into legal force today (September 1), threatens to inflame South China Sea disputes pitting China and Southeast Asian nations and stoke already rising tensions with the United States in the contested waters.

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Published at 2021-09-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : News and Events, Politics

Tags: China, Chinese, Foreign, Japan, Taiwan, Traffic, coastal

Wonder where World War III Might Break Out? Try Taiwan

A clear and troubling consensus has emerged in the American national security community that the Taiwan Strait is the most likely place for a major war to erupt between the United States and China; that it might start soon, and that such a conflict might quickly escalate into a nuclear confrontation.

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Published at 2021-07-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : History, News and Events, Politics

Tags: American, China, Chinese, Foreign, Pacific, Power, Taiwan, international

Our Vanishing ‘galunggong’

Two months ago, I had a Zoom meeting with fisherfolk from Zambales who complained that their fish catch had been dwindling because huge Chinese trawlers have been scooping the fish in their traditional fishing grounds in the West Philippine Sea, leaving them with smaller fish. Filipino fishermen use only wooden boats with outriggers that are dwarfed by the huge steel-hulled Chinese trawlers

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Published at 2021-07-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Fauna and flora, Politics

Tags: Chinese, Duterte, fish, fishermen, fishing

Xi Kickstarts a Jittery CCP’s Second Century

Chinese President Xi Jinping this week presided over the 100th birthday of the Chinese Communist Party to praise the most dramatic rise out of poverty of any country in world history and to say China would take no stick from anybody.

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Published at 2021-07-04 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : History, Politics

Tags: China, Chinese

Duterte Lifts Ban on New Mining Permits

President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a ban on issuing licenses for new mining operations in the Philippines, marking an about-face from a previous anti-mining stance that saw him ban open-pit mining in 2017 and close or suspend 26 mining operations for environmental violations.

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Published at 2021-04-18 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Environment, Politics

Tags: Chinese, DENR, Duterte, Palawan, environment, government, industry, mining

Mass Exit of Foreign Nationals to Impact Tourism

Mass departures of foreigners due to the COVID-19 pandemic will continue until the end of the year and will have a major impact on the state of the country’s tourism, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said Monday. Almost 2 million foreign nationals have left the country from January to September 2020, according to data provided by BI.

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Published at 2020-11-23 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, News and Events, Travel

Tags: COVID-19, Chinese, Foreign, Tourism, country

How Four CIA Spies Died in a Storm Near the Philippines

Four CIA operatives died in a shipwreck off the coast of the Philippines in a tropical storm in 2008 during a daring operation to try and spy on China's activity in the region, it has been revealed. The story of how the four died has never before been told. The men - Stephen Stanek, Michael Perich, Jamie McCormick and Daniel Meeks - were working for the CIA's Maritime Branch.

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Published at 2020-09-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : History

Tags: Chinese, Officer, Philippines, tropical

The ‘budol-budol’ Nation

We would have wished that the Chinese presence were a benign one, for Filipinos have learned to assimilate the Chinese into our lives and culture. We have not seen in the Philippines the rioting, murder, and rape against the Chinese as have occurred at certain flashpoints in Indonesia or Vietnam. Yet, that openness of the Filipino in the face of impending danger is the bane of our future.

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Published at 2020-09-11 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Opinion, Politics

Tags: China, Chinese, Manila

Respect the Blacklist of Chinese Firms

Through no fault of its own, the Sangley Point International Airport Project has found itself in the middle of the competition between the United States and China for dominance in the Asia-Pacific region. China’s claim of ownership over several islands in the South China Sea and their conversion to military installations are being challenged by the United States through naval patrols in the area.

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Published at 2020-09-08 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Legal, Politics

Tags: China, Chinese, companies, government