A cat sits on a tomb at Manila North cemetery on All Saints' Day in Manila on November 1, 2023. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)





Filipinos visit the graves of departed loved ones as they mark All Saints' Day at Manila North Cemetery on November 01, 2023 in Manila, Philippines. Filipinos flock to cemeteries around the country to visit departed relatives and loved ones to remember All Saints' Day, a holiday celebrated in Latin cultures around the world during which family and friends of the deceased gather at the cemeteries to pray and hold vigils for those who have passed away. In the Philippines, family members clean tombs and often spend the night at the cemetery eating and celebrating with loved ones. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)





People flock inside Manila's North Cemetery, Philippines on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. Many Filipinos trooped to cemeteries to visit the graves of their departed loved ones as part of the tradition during All Saints' Day. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





People place LED candles during a vigil in memory of Super Typhoon Haiyan victims on the tenth anniversary of the disaster at a park in Tacloban city, Leyte province, on November 8, 2023. Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan prayed for their dead loved ones in the devoutly Catholic Philippines on November 8 as they commemorated the 10th anniversary of a storm that killed more than 6,000 people. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP Photo)





A Filipino soldier plays “Taps” on his trumpet along a hall of walls with names of “Missing in Action” soldiers during a ceremony on the eve of Veterans Day, at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Taguig City, Metro Manila, Philippines, 10 November 2023. The US ambassador to the Philippines, MaryKay Loss Carlson, joined the surviving war veterans in rites to honor American and Filipino troops killed in World War II at the cemetery, where more than 17,000 American military and 570 Filipino counterparts are buried. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA)





Former Philippines senator Leila de Lima waves to her supporters outside the Muntinlupa Hall of Justice after being granted bail following six years in detention, at Muntinlupa, Philippines on November 13, 2023. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





Former senator Leila De Lima (C) reacts after attending a court hearing in Muntinlupa city, Metro Manila, Philippines on November 13, 2023. A Regional trial court has granted detained former senator Leila de Lima's bail plea for her temporary liberty. De Lima, a staunch critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte, has been detained inside the Philippine National Police headquarters for the past six years facing drug-related charges. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA/EFE)





Policemen clash with the protesters as they march to the US embassy in Manila during a rally in support of the Palestinian people on November 14, 2023. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, entered southern Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in Gaza on October 8. (Photo by Earvin Perias/AFP Photo)





Filipino protesters scuffle with police during a pro-Palestinian protest near the US Embassy in Manila, Philippines on November 14, 2023. Demonstrators marched to the US Embassy to denounce the US government's role in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 07 October, and the Israeli strikes on the Palestinian enclave which followed it. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA/EFE)





Activists scuffle with police as they tried to march towards the U.S. Embassy to show support with the Palestinian people on November 14, 2023, in Manila, Philippines. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





Students participate on a transplanting rice demonstration at a Rice Garden in Rizal Park, Manila on November 17, 2023. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)





In this handout provided by Greenpeace, the island of Bilangbilangban as the Greenpeace ship The Rainbow Warrior sails around it whilst visiting sinking Islands in the Philippines, ten years on from the devastating typhoon Haiyan on November 17, 2023 in Bilangbilangban, Bohol, Philippines. The small island communities in the Philippines are on the front line of climate change due to their extremely vulnerable nature. Greenpeace is engaging with communities in the area to make big polluters pay reparations. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe For Greenpeace via Getty Images)





Participants run through a street carrying a palm hut during the annual Buhat Kubo Race (Hut Race) in Ugong Village of Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines, 18 November 2023. In celebration of Bayanihan Festival (Festival of Community), Ugong residents held the Hut Race to re-live the Filipino tradition of helping neighbors even in relocating their houses to show a sense of community in the face of adversity. (Photo by Rolex Dela Pena/EPA)





Activists hold slogans during a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as they march at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City, Philippines on Thursday November 22, 2023. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A man stands in front of the Mall of Asia Globe showing a video displaying a campaign to end violence against women in Manila on November 24, 2023, ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)





A vendor selling Christmas decorations waits for customers at a street market in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on November 28, 2023. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





A vendor works on a Christmas star lantern, locally known as parol, at a street market in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on November 29, 2023. (Photo by Eloisa Lopez/Reuters)





People visit a Christmas-themed park in Taguig, suburban Manila on November 30, 2023. (Photo by Ted Aljibe/AFP Photo)





Patients at Manuel J. Santos Hospital in Butuan City, southern Philippines, are evacuated after an earthquake, Saturday evening, December 2, 2023. A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday off the southern Philippine coast, prompting many villagers to flee their homes in panic after Philippine authorities issued a tsunami warning. (Photo by Ivy Marie Mangadlao/AP Photo)





Residents and medical personnel evacuate patients from inside a hospital after a 7.6 earthequake struck Butuan City, in southern island of Mindanao late December 2, 2023. A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the southern Philippines on December 2, the US Geological Survey said, as local authorities warned of a “destructive tsunami” and urged people in coastal areas to flee. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)