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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has declined an invitation to the Asia-Europe meeting in Belgium this year sent by the European Union. “Well, I just don’t like their attitude. That’s all,” the President said. “You have always been imperialists ever since,” he said, noting that the bloc has always wanted to impose its own values on other countries. He added a trip to Europe would cost a lot. EU ambassador to the Philippines Franz […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to go to Albay to visit the residents affected by Mount Mayon’s recent activity. “I’ll probably take a rest for a day or two first … but I will go to Mayon,” the President said. He said he expected his plane to have difficulty landing in Legazpi City. He said it was “(not) the (ashfall) there, but the wind current that you have to worry about because it […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday reiterated his dislike for the lowest-bid policy in the procurement of government projects. According to Duterte, “henceforth, all projects of the Philippines would be something like a ‘Swiss challenge.” Unlike the lowest-bid policy that sees a contract usually awarded to the one who offered the lowest bid, a Swiss challenge sees other parties challenging the proposal of an original proponent. The original proponent then offers an improved bid. According […]
Filing shows his “ignorance of law, processes,” a Sereno spokesperson says (Eagle News)–Lawyer Larry Gadon’s filing of a graft complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno in the “wrong office” only shows his “ignorance of the law and the processes,” her camp said on Saturday. “This is yet another desperate and laughable attempt by Atty. Gadon to push his sinister plot to remove the Chief Justice from office, fully aware that his impeachment complaint has no basis at […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte arrived in the country early Saturday from his trip to India. Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said the trip generated at least $1.25 billion in investment commitment from Indian businessmen. He said business engagements resulted in the inking of 12 business agreements, two memoranda of understanding and 10 letters of intent. “(This has also resulted) in at least 10,000 jobs in infrastructure development, renewable energy, IT and business services including customer service […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte’s trip to India has resulted in at least $1.25 billion in investment commitment from Indian businessmen, an official said. Speaking at the Philippines-India Business Forum at the Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi on Friday, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said that the Philippine delegation’s business engagements has also resulted in 12 business agreements, two memoranda of understanding and 10 letters of intent. “(This has also resulted) in at least 10,000 […]
(Eagle News) — It’s a “desperate” stunt. This was how the camp of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno described lawyer Larry Gadon’s filing of a criminal complaint against her on Friday. “Indeed, desperate times call for desperate measures,” Atty. Josa Deinla, one of the Chief Justice’s spokespersons, said in a statement. She said Gadon filed the complaint because he “knows that he still has nothing on the Chief Justice after all the undeserved attention that his […]
(Eagle News) — The Rappler case does not involve the issue of press freedom. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Friday said that allegations that it involved such were therefore merely “fake news.” “(It’s) about avarice for money that violates the (Constitution) and the laws of the land,” he said. Roque noted that the decision to revoke Rappler’s registration was made by the Securities and Exchange Commission “manned by (former President Noynoy) Aquino appointees.” “(I will give) […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate blue ribbon committee has once again summoned former Customs Chief Nicanor Faeldon to its hearing on corruption in the Bureau of Customs. But his lawyer, Jose Diño, has said he doubted his client would attend the hearing slated on Monday, January 29. “He will maintain, I think, his right to his personal dignity, specifically his right not be browbeaten (again) with hopelessly, unprovable, and garbage allegations,” Diño said. Faeldon, who is […]
(Eagle News) — A criminal complaint has been filed against Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno for her alleged non-filing of her Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth for 17 years. Lawyer Larry Gadon filed the complaint for violation of Republic Act 6713 and Republic 3019 before the Department of Justice on Friday. According to Gadon, Sereno only filed her SALN in 1998, 2002 and 2006, even when she served as a law […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace is backing the Office of the Solicitor General’s decision to ask the Supreme Court’s help in seeking the filing of homicide charges against former President Benigno Aquino III and two others over the botched Mamasapano operation in 2015. “The Solicitor General as counsel of the Government is correct. There ought to be accountability for those responsible for the SAF 44 debacle,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said, referring to the 44 […]
(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation on Friday announced the arrest of a fake dentist in Caloocan City. NBI Director Dante Gierran said Ronalyn Cruz-Tan was nabbed on Thursday after she performed a dental procedure on an undercover operative in her clinic. He said her arrest stems from a complaint lodged Dr. Ariel Go, chair of the Anti-Illegal Practice Committee of the Philippine Dental Association, on December 2017. Go alleged Cruz-Tan was engaged […]
