The United States (US) is giving the Philippines an additional $3 million in assistance for relief efforts in the wake of Typhoon Pablo, considered the worst storm to hit the country this year.
The United States offered disaster relief and sent condolences Wednesday to the Philippines and Palau in the wake of Typhoon Bopha, which left hundreds dead.
A human rights group on Friday assailed President Benigno Aquino III for lying on the continuing human rights violations in the Philippines in a bid to get the $13 million in US military aid.
House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez has expressed support to the country’s plans of requesting for assistance from the United States in the form of its spy planes to monitor movements in the West Philippine Sea.
The United States has approved the release of $65 million (about P2.75 billion) in fresh official development assistance to the Philippines in line with the two countries’ five-year “Partnership for Growth,” or PFG program, according to the US Embassy in Manila.
The Philippines must do more to stop human rights abuses, especially extrajudicial killings if it wants to receive more US aid, the US ambassador to the country said on Friday. Speaking at a round table of human rights advocates, Ambassador Harry Thomas said the US Congress still withholds a portion of US aid to this [...]
