Maria Ressa welcomed her acquittal on trumped-up tax evasion charges. She and her investigative website Rappler had been vigorous critics of the extremist rule of the previous President Duterte who responded with a battery of criminal cases against her. There are still three outstanding convictions against her but the Nobel laureate expressed optimism that these would be overturned and that the "ray of light" would become "a day of sunshine" ... that the "upside-down world" would be turned right way up. In a TV interview she pointed to the efforts of President \Marcos in Davos to attract new investment in the islands.
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