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Three others ordered indicted over P50-million extort plot (Eagle News) — The Ombudsman has ordered the filing of a plunder complaint against former Immigration commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles over what the anti-graft body said was their extortion of P50 million from Chinese businessman Jack Lam in 2016. This was despite the Department of Justice’s earlier disclosure that the P50 million, which was supposedly in exchange for the release of Lam’s 1316 workers who […]
by Cecil Morella Agence France-Presse BALO-I, Lanao del Sur (AFP) — Cradling her baby in a muddy tent camp, Jamalia Pindaton has no idea if she can return home to Marawi in the southern Philippines after the end of a five-month war launched by Islamic State supporters. More than 350,000 people from in and around Marawi, the mainly Catholic Philippines’ Islamic capital, were displaced because of the conflict, which ended on Monday when soldiers killed […]
(Eagle News) — Actor Cogie Domingo and two others were arrested in an anti-drug operation early Friday. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said their operatives from the intelligence section of region IV-A and the Laguna Provincial Office nabbed Domingo while buying illegal drugs in BF Homes, Parañaque. The PDEA identified the two others who were arrested as Almira Bautista (and not Domingo’s wife as earlier reported) and Francisco Lim. A PDEA report said confiscated from […]
(Eagle News) — The alleged operator of Farhana Maute’s businesses that were also supposed sources of funds for terrorist activities in Marawi was arrested in Quezon City on Thursday. Chief Supt. Guillermo Salazar, Quezon City Police District director, said Rasdy Malawali, also a Maute group member, was apprehended by authorities from his house in Novaliches. According to Salazar, Malawali operates the Maute matriarch’s businesses in Salam Bazaar in Nova Mall and collects money from the […]
The United States is not concerned about the Philippines’ deepening relationship with China and Russia, which has seen them for the first time provide significant amounts of military hardware to the Southeast Asian country. This is according to US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, who spoke to reporters on Thursday. “I’m not in any way threatened by the fact that China and Russia are also providing military assistance to the Philippines,” Kim said. He noted that […]
On September 26, 1997, former President Fidel V. Ramos signed the Proclamation No. 1098 which declared the month of October and the year after as the “Consumer Welfare Month” to protect the public against unreasonable price increases or fraudulent practices in the market. This year’s celebration highlights the theme, “Consumer Rights in the Digital Age.” According to Department of Industry- Consumer Protection Group (DTI-CPG), Undersecretary Atty. Teodoro C. Pascua, “The advent of technology has opened […]
Former President Corazon C. Aquino proclaimed the month of October as the National Statistics Month to promote, enhance and instill nationwide awareness and appreciation of the importance and value that statistics provide to the different sectors of our society. This year’s celebration highlights the theme: “Facts and Figures for the Future: Statistics for Evidence-Based Decisions towards AmBisyon Natin 2040.” According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the theme reflects the role of reliable statistics and […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday ordered newly installed Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Rey Guerrero to destroy all recovered firearms from Marawi. “May I just insert something, I will now request the chief of staff, General Guerrero, to supervise the destruction of all arms whether high-powered or hand guns,” Duterte said during the change of command ceremonies in Camp Aguinaldo. He said the act was “to show […]
(Eagle News) — Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte is retiring from politics in 2019. A PNA report quoted the presidential son as saying that while it “will still be a Carpio-Duterte tandem (running for) the mayor and vice mayor” posts in Davao after his term, “definitely it will not be me.” The vice mayor was referring to Manases Carpio, the husband of his sister Davao Mayor Sara Duterte, and another Duterte, Sebastian, with whom he […]
(Eagle News) — Newly retired Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Eduardo Año may be back in government service in less than a year. President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday offered Año the post as special assistant to the President and the post of Undersecretary, “whichever was legally tenable.” “General Año will head the (Department of the Interior and Local Government) but while he is prohibited from assuming the post for one year (under the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Francisco Duque III as health secretary. The appointment comes after Paulyn Ubial’s nomination as health secretary was rejected by the powerful Commission on Appointments. Duque served as health secretary under then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s term.
(Eagle News) — The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the dismissal of Iloilo Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog from government service. The anti-graft body, in a 13-page decision dated Aug. 29, dismissed Mabilog, who was named a narcopolitician by President Rodrigo Duterte, for serious dishonesty relative to his unlawful acquisition of wealth. This was after Mabilog failed to explain the almost P9-million increase in his wealth as shown in his 2012 and 2013 Statement of Assets, […]
