Philippine news

Monday was "Araw ng Kagitingan", the day of valor that remembers the Bataan death march, sixty years ago.

67,000 Filipinos, 1,000 Chinese Filipinos, and 11,796 Americans surrendered but only 54 000 reached their destination...link


Only a few areas of the US seem to remember those dark days. It did hit the New Mexico papers, since their NatGuard was called up to defend Manila LINK

and this is a nice article from the Houston Chronicle

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There was a bit of congratulatory press stories about a Chinese ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the coast of Iran, where the Iranian Navy rescued the sailors.
Now it comes out that two members of the crew, both Filipinos, died during the rescue.
Strategypage gives the background of what's going on in that area

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Several flights to Manila were canceled because of that North Korean missile scheduled to be launched, but there is also a worry that if they shoot it toward the south (so as to miss being shot down by japan) that missile debris might hit our islands.

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Awhile back, AlJezeerah reported that the Philippines used a drone to kill one of our most wanted terrorists which was denied by the gov't here.... But now Strategypage confirms it was such an accurate strike that probably  it was a smartbomb, dropped by one of our old fighter planes: the drones only were used to find the camp where he was hiding.

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related item:

The  Bo Xilai scandal in China keeps getting stranger and stranger....now the "officials" say his purge was because his wife was involved in the murder of a UK citizen...the twitteverse says it's the start of a new purge...and the gov't has tightened controls on the internet to stop rumors from spreading.
Strategypage has the background here too...he is an anti corruption politician who wanted to reimpose communism.
More at Belmont club.