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Plunder case vs former immigration commissioners, retired cop re-raffled to Sandiganbayan’s 6th Division

(Eagle News) – The  plunder case filed  against former immigration deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles, and retired police officer Wenceslao “Wally” Sombero Jr. was re-raffled to the Sandiganbayan Sixth Division on Friday, April 6. This was after the Sandiganbayan en banc approved on Thursday the inhibition from the case of  Fourth Division chairperson Associate Justice Alex Quiroz. Quiroz made the move after admitting one of the accused was an “acquaintance.” The Sixth Division […]

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Duterte, Xi slated to hold bilateral meeting in China in April

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping are slated to hold a bilateral meeting when he visits China. According to Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for International Economic Affairs Manuel Antonio Teehankee, the meeting is slated on April 10. The President is slated to leave for  China to attend the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan province on April 9. “At the bilateral meeting, this may come up as well,” Teehankee said when asked if the South China […]

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S. Korea’s Park jailed for 24 years over corruption

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea’s disgraced former president Park Geun-hye was jailed for 24 years Friday for corruption, closing out a dramatic fall from grace for the country’s first woman leader who became a figure of public fury and ridicule. The sentence followed a trial lasting more than 10 months which ended with Park being found guilty on multiple criminal charges, including bribery and abuse of power. “The amount of bribery the accused received […]

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Duterte to incoming Justice Secretary Guevarra: “Bring back DOJ’s dignified image”

(Eagle News) — “Bring back” the justice department’s “dignified image.” This, according to incoming Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra, was the instruction given to him by President Rodrigo Duterte. Guevarra made the revelation in a text message to reporters on Friday. “The President seldom sees me, yet he entrusts such a sensitive position to me. I’m overwhelmed with such confidence,” Guevarra said. According to Guevarra, he would “wind up for a few days” in the Office […]

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Aguirre breaks silence; thanks Duterte, colleagues for helping make a “better” DOJ

(Eagle News) –Vitaliano Aguirre on Friday thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for the “trust and confidence” he said he gave him during his stint as justice secretary in his first-ever statement after his resignation was announced by the chief executive. Aguirre was, however, mum about why he resigned in the first place. Instead, he thanked the  “undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and the other officials of the DOJ and all of the agencies under the DOJ family for welcoming […]

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Solano pleads not guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice charges in connection with hazing victim Castillo’s death

(Eagle News) — Aegis Juris fraternity member John Paul Solano has pleaded not guilty to the charges filed against him in connection with the death of University of Sto. Tomas law freshman Horacio Castillo III in September last year. The Department of Justice said Solano gave the plea for the perjury and obstruction of justice charges  during his arraignment in the Manila Metropolitan Trial Branch 14 on March 21. It was Solano who said he […]

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Incoming PNP Chief Albayalde to focus on PNP internal cleansing, drug war

By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Incoming Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said he would focus on internal cleansing in the PNP once he assumes the post on April 18. In a television interview on Friday, Albayalde said he would “put responsibility on the ground” so that if commanders did not discipline their men,  “merong kalalagyan sila.” “Mangilan ngilan lang naman sila (police scalawags),” Albayalde said. So far, he said he does not have […]

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Piñol: Duterte ordered NFA Council abolition

Duterte also asked  traders to bring down price of rice sold in market, source says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the abolition of the National Food Authority Council. Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said in a radio interview on Friday that the President gave the order in a meeting with rice traders on Thursday. According to Piñol, the NFA and other agencies that have to do with agriculture will be transferred to the […]

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Poe: Aguirre stepping down shows anyone in Duterte’s official family can be axed, be made to resign

If abuses are committed, they “cannot claim immunity from having to account for them,” Poe says (Eagle News) — Three senators hailed Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre’s resignation, with one saying it only proves no one is safe in President Rodrigo Duterte’s official family. “Pwede kang ma-endo anytime by the President…Whether the exit was graceful or unceremonious, one thing is also certain —  the actions undertaken by the resigned official while in office can be assessed […]

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Facebook: PHL had second most number of Facebook accounts that “may have been” accessed by Cambridge Analytica

(Eagle News) — The Philippines had the second most number of Facebook accounts that may have been improperly accessed by British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. In a post, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, said 1,175,870 accounts may have been affected, only next to the 70, 632,350 that may have been affected in the United States. Schroepfer said the Philippines was followed by Indonesia (1,096,666 accounts), the United Kingdom (1,079,001), Mexico (789,.880), Canada (622,161), and […]

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Robredo camp: Comelec threshold for ballot shading, not PET threshold, should be followed in manual recount

(Eagle News) — The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo has asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to follow the threshold set by the Commission on Elections for the shading of ballots, instead of the one set by the tribunal. In an ex-parte motion, Robredo, through her lawyers, said the 25 percent threshold of the Comelec should be followed because a 50 percent threshold set by the PET in 2010 “has resulted to and will result […]

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Duterte: PHL “willing to accept” persecuted Rohingyas

“Hati hati tayo sa Europe,” he says (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he was “willing to accept” Rohingyas in the country. “Hati hati tayo sa Europe,” the President said in a speech before rice traders in Malacanang. Duterte made the pronouncement after describing what the Rohingyas were experiencing in Myanmar as genocide even after he acknowledged Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was his “friend.’ The Rohingyas–majority of whom are […]

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