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The Philippines joined calls for world leaders to implement the historic Paris Agreement to fight global warming, this amid the United States’ threats it would exit from the United Nations pact. “As long there is a chance to stop global warming at a level that lets humanity survive and thrive, we should seize it,” Emmanuel De Guzman of the Philippines’ Climate Change Commission said on the sidelines of UN talks under way in Bonn. “This is […]
The cyber attack seems to be no longer far from ordinary people’s lives, as global authorities are busy handling the latest wave of ransomware attack. Insiders warned that the mobile network will be the next target of hackers. The ransomware, called WannaCry, which exploited the vulnerabilities in older Microsoft computer operating systems, encrypted data on the computers, demanding certain amount of payments to restore access. It is reported that the WannaCry cyber attack has […]
(Eagle News)– The Sandiganbayan allowed on Tuesday (May 17) former Senator Jinggoy Estrada to undergo a hospital examination for his sore right shoulder. The Fifth Division said Estrada may undergo an MRI and X-ray only at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan City. It said this could only be done on Thursday, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. or until the procedures are done. Estrada earlier explained in his four-page motion that in the late afternoon […]
(Eagle News) — Three major agreements were signed by Philippines and China after the expanded bilateral meetings between President Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jin Ping that renewed the two countries friendship and deepened bilateral ties. The agreements were on economic and technical cooperation, human resource development, and energy cooperation. The signing was done at the Great Hall of the People on Monday, May 15. The first to be signed was the Agreement on Economic […]
(Eagle News) — Alan Peter Cayetano is officially the new Foreign Affairs secretary. This after the powerful Commission on Appointments approved his appointment in a plenary hearing on Wednesday, with not one CA member opposing his confirmation. Senator Panfilo Lacson, who endorsed Cayetano’s nomination to the plenary, said the committee hearing on the country’s new top diplomat hours earlier was “probably the shortest public hearing” on an approved nomination. “(Cayetano) has shown his versatility in the floors of […]
(Eagle News) — Veronica “Kitty” Duterte, the youngest daughter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte showed her fun side when she took this cute selfie of her “holding” her father in the palm of her hand. In the photo, a pensive looking President Duterte can be seen sitting on a sofa, with “Kitty’ making it appear he was tiny with the use of her fingers. The 72-year old Duterte obviously didn’t know that his 13-year old daughter was taking […]
(Eagle News) — A Commission on Appointments panel has approved the appointment of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano as Foreign Affairs Secretary. The approval of the committee on foreign relations came only minutes after its deliberations began, upon a discussion of the rules that need to be complied with. Isabela Rep. Rodito Albano immediately filed a motion for Cayetano’s appointment to be approved. Not one member from the panel objected to Albano’s motion. According to Senator Panfilo […]
By Dexter T. Manglicmot WASHINGTON D.C. (Eagle News Service) — Minister of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Matt Talens, would have never guessed that answering his phone one Saturday morning in October 2015 in his chapel office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, would eventually lead to the first-ever baptism of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. On the other end of the line was Joseph Crusoe who picked up a magazine of the Church at […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos asked the Supreme Court to appoint hearing officers for his electoral protest against Vice President Leni Robredo. In an urgent ex parte-motion, Marcos through his counsel George Erwin Garcia, said that the designation of at least three hearing commissioners would “better facilitate an orderly, simplified and expeditious disposition of this electoral contest considering that there are three (3) causes of action raised in this […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Ifugao Representative Teddy Baguilat warned that the investigation into the pork barrel scam may become a ‘witch-hunt’ against the opposition after Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said his office was considering making Janet Napoles a state witness. “Making Napoles a state witness gives her the opportunity to spin facts in her favor, and likely against opponents of the administration,” Ifugao Rep. Teodoro Baguilat Jr. said. “Of course, given how […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Marine Pollution Exercise (MARPOLEX) involving the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan has started in Bali as part of the three countries’ coastguard training. According to Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Commander Armand Balilio, the Philippines sent 200 coast guards and four vessels – BRP Pampanga, BRP Tubbataha, BRP Nueva Vizcaya, and Tugboat Habagat, to the event that aims to help the participants to determine what to do in the event […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is planning to construct a naval operating base in Casiguran, Aurora which is near Benham Rise. Lt. Gen. Roberto Tanalgo clarified that the Benham Rise issue is not the reason the AFP is planning to construct the naval base. He said the construction of the naval base was already planned even before the issue started. “We continuously patrol the Benham Rise by […]
