Angered by the country’s low vaccination rate, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he may jail people who refuse to get the shot against coronavirus. Duterte vented his frustration over vaccine hesitancy during a cabinet meeting late on Monday night. “If you don’t want to get vaccinated, leave the Philippines,” he said, as quoted by the PNA news agency. “Go to India if you want,... 

Poland is planning on opening its borders to 100 000 Filipino workers, claiming a ‘labour shortage’ due to its ageing population. In a very civic nationalist approach, Poland’s Deputy Labor Minister Stanislaw Szwed has said that “[The Philippines] have good solutions because they are co-ordinated by a government employment agency. Poland was chosen because our country is close to them culturally,...