MANILA, Philippines – Tennis sensation Alex Eala and volleyball star Bryan Bagunas led their fellow Filipino athletes within the opening ceremony of the the thirty third version of the Southeast Asian Video games on the Rajamangala Nationwide Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 9.
Near 1,200 athletes make up the nation’s greatest delegation ever for the biennial showpiece hosted by Thailand for the seventh time. The Philippines is aiming to enhance on its 2023 medal haul, the place it completed fifth total and picked up a complete of 260 medals: 58 golds, 86 silvers, and 116 bronzes.
On December 10, a day after the formal opening, Cambodia pulled out of the SEA Video games citing “security causes” following escalated border battle with host Thailand. Combating erupted between Thailand and Cambodia on December 8, the second main flare-up between them this 12 months, derailing a fragile truce brokered in July by US President Donald Trump.
In different information, members of civil society teams and the church filed a plunder grievance towards Vice President Sara Duterte with the Workplace of the Ombudsman on December 12. The teams hinged their grievance on Duterte’s alleged misuse of her confidential funds as vp and when she was Division of Training secretary.
Catch extra tales in these pictures from the week that was:
An enormous determine of the satan holding an effigy depicting the top of US President Donald Trump burns in the course of the annual celebration of the ‘Burning of the Satan,’ a pageant related to the Feast of the Immaculate Conception that honors town’s patron saint and marks the start of the Christmas season, in Colonia Arrivillaga, Guatemala Metropolis, Guatemala, on December 7, 2025. PHOTO BY CRISTINA CHIQUIN/REUTERS
Runners dressed as Santa Claus participate within the annual 5km Santa Sprint in Liverpool, Britain, on December 7, 2025. PHOTO BY TEMILADE ADELAJA/REUTERS
A voter checks on the candidates at a polling station in Tai Po in the course of the Legislative Council basic election in Hong Kong on December 7, 2025. PHOTO BY LAM YIK/REUTERS
A photograph of John Lennon lies on the Think about mosaic on the forty fifth anniversary of Lennon’s loss of life within the Strawberry Fields part of Central Park in New York Metropolis on December 8, 2025. PHOTO BY KYLIE COOPER/REUTERS
Pope Leo XIV arrives for the Immaculate Conception celebration prayer close to the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy, on December 8, 2025. PHOTO BY GUGLIELMO MANGLAPANE/REUTERS
Greek farmers, protesting over the delayed fee of European Union subsidies, hurl stones amid tear gasoline on the Heraklion Worldwide Airport, in Heraklion, Crete island, Greece, on December 8, 2025. PHOTO BY STEFANOS RAPANIS/REUTERS
Individuals stroll alongside Postigo de San Martin road adorned with Christmas lights, impressed by the Netflix’s TV present ‘Stranger Issues’ in Madrid, Spain, on December 8, 2025. PHOTO BY ANA BELTRAN/REUTERS
A flyboard performer in the course of the Southeast Asian Video games opening ceremony at Rajamangala Nationwide Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand, on December 9, 2025. PHOTO BY PATIPAT JANTHONG/REUTERS
The Philippines’ contingent, led by flagbearers Bryan Bagunas, Alex Eala, and placard bearer Anntonia Porsild, in the course of the thirty third Southeast Asian Video games parade of countries on the opening ceremony at Rajamangala Nationwide Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 9, 2025 PHOTO BY CHALINEE THIRASUPA/REUTERS
Colombian singer Shakira performs throughout her ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour’ live performance at Jose Amalfitani stadium, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 9, 2025. PHOTO BY AGUSTIN MARCARIAN/REUTERS
Fisherfolk calling for polluters to pay for damages filed a category motion go well with searching for to carry liable the shipowner, charterer, insurer, in addition to intergovernmental organizations over the ‘environmental disaster introduced by the Mindoro oil spill,’ on the Regional Trial Court docket in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro, on December 9, 2025. PHOTO BY CENTER FOR ENERGY, ECOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT
Activists pull an effigy depicting President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as they march to protest close to the presidential palace on Human Rights Day in Manila on December 10, 2025. PHOTO BY ELOISA LOPEZ/REUTERS
Wicha Chamdam, 53, stands inside his bed room throughout an interview with Reuters at his broken home amid lethal clashes between Thailand and Cambodia alongside a disputed border space in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand, on December 10, 2025. PHOTO BY ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA/REUTERS
Cops burry a coffin of an unidentified sufferer of the latest flash floods and landslides, throughout a mass funeral in Padang, West Sumatra province, Indonesia, on December 10, 2025. PHOTO BY WILLY KURNIAWAN/REUTERS
The Colosseum is illuminated throughout a particular mild set up after Italy received a spot on UNESCO’s cultural heritage listing for its culinary traditions, in Rome, Italy, on December 10, 2025. PHOTO BY REMO CASILLI/REUTERS
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado reacts from a balcony of Grand Lodge after her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, accepted the award on her behalf, in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2025. PHOTO BY LEONHARD FOEGER/REUTERS
Father Robert Reyes, former finance undersecretary Cielo Magno, and Father Flavie Villanueva lead the submitting of a plunder grievance towards Vice President Sara Duterte on the Workplace of the Ombudsman on December 12, 2025. PHOTO BY JIRE CARREON/RAPPLER
Aleah Finnegan of the Philippines is seen in motion in the course of the ladies’s equipment stability beam finals, of the Southeast Asian Video games, at Thammasat College Rangsit Campus, Pathum Thani, Thailand, on December 12, 2025. PHOTO BY PATIPAT JANTHONG/REUTERS
Members of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity maintain the Oblation Run contained in the College of the Philippines-Manila campus in the course of the fraternity’s a centesimal anniversary on December 12, 2025. PHOTO BY RAPPLER
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