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(Eagle News)– Detained former senator Jinggoy Estrada has submitted to the Sandiganbayan a motion for him to be allowed to undergo a medical checkup for his sore right shoulder. Estrada’s camp pleaded before the anti-graft court’s 5th Division to allow him to be immediately brought to the Cardinal Santos Medical Center, San Juan for examination due to extreme pain in his right shoulder he experienced on May 11. Attached to his motion is a medical […]
MALOLOS, Bulacan (Eagle News) — Ang mga may-asawang kaanib sa Iglesia Ni Cristo ay nagsagawa ng Social Development Services Caravan sa Bulacan. Ang SDS Caravan na isinagawa ng mga kabilang sa kapisanang BUKLOD sa Distrito ng Bulacan South ay para sa pagpapakita ng turo at gawa ng iba’t ibang bagay na pangkabuhayan. Kabilang na dito ang Mushroom Growing, Paggawa ng Doughnut, Pabango, Kandila at iba pa. Ang aktibidad na ito na naglalayong maisulong ang kasiglahan ng kapisanang BUKLOD ay […]
(Eagle News)– The Sandiganbayan First Division on Monday (May 15) denied the request of alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles to be transferred to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) detention center, and instead ordered her to be moved to Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City. In an open court hearing, the First Division granted the prosecution’s motion to have Napoles detained at Camp Bagong Diwa, saying there was no evidence that Napoles will […]
(Eagle News)– Officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) formally launched on Monday (May 15) the Brigada Eskwela. The Brigada Eskwela is an annual program of DepEd which sees teachers, students, parents, and other parties cooperate in preparing public school classrooms for use in the coming school year. Aside from fixing school amenities, classrooms and school buildings will also be examined to see if these can withstand natural calamities. Teachers will also undergo training for disaster preparedness […]
(Eagle News) – The House justice committee has voted to declare as “sufficient in form” but “insufficient in substance” the impeachment complaint filed by Magdalo Rep. Gary Alejano against President Rodrigo Duterte. “We hereby declare that the impeachment complaint is sufficient in form. We will now proceed with the determination on the sufficiency of substance,” Rep. Reynaldo Umali, the chair of the House committee on Justice said. Oriental Mindoro Rep. Doy Leachon then moved to […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Monday (May 15) started deliberations on the impeachment complaint filed against President Rodrigo Duterte by Magdalo Party List Rep. Gary Alejano last March, with the House leaders questioning Alejano on his personal knowledge on the contents of his complaint. As the hearing progressed, Alejano admitted he had no personal knowledge as to the material allegations on his complaint but that he had just perused newspaper reports […]
(Eagle News) –President Rodrigo Duterte said the P3-million increase in his net worth was because of excess campaign donations for the 2016 elections. “Those were excess funds… The money no longer has purpose. I do not know where they came from. I declared that as income,” President Duterte told reporters in Hong Kong. He assured the public he paid income taxes for the increase. During his speech before the Filipino community in Hong Kong on […]
by Laurent Thomet / Yanan Wang Agence France Presse China on Sunday touted its new Silk Road as “a project of the century” at a summit highlighting its growing leadership on globalization, but a North Korean missile test competed for attention. President Xi Jinping hosted leaders from 29 nations for the two-day summit in Beijing ending Monday after United States and South Korean military officials confirmed that Pyongyang had launched a ballistic missile. Delegations from […]
KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP ) – The first Ebola outbreak since the crisis in West Africa that killed 11,300 people has been declared in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said Friday, after the virus caused three deaths in the area. In a television address, Health Minister Oly Ilunga confirmed the cases while urging the population “not to panic”. The country “has taken all necessary measures to respond quickly and efficiently to […]
by Sarah Benhaida Agence France-Presse RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories – Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voted Saturday in municipal elections that underscored deep rifts between president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party and Islamist rival Hamas which runs the Gaza Strip. Their failure to reconcile is seen as a major obstacle to any settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The West Bank and Gaza have not participated in an election together since 2006, when Hamas swept Palestinian parliamentary […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) – North Korea on Sunday test-fired a ballistic missile, Seoul’s military said, in an apparent test of South Korea’s new president who backs engagement with Pyongyang. The missile was launched from a site near the northwestern city of Kusong at around 5:30 am (2030 GMT Saturday) and flew about 700 kilometres (435 miles), according to the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. “The South and US are analysing more details about the […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte asked Filipinos to give him three or four years to turn around the country, as he spoke with overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong. “Give me time. Three to four years, I will have solved almost all of the problems by then,” he said. In his speech, the President said he would fulfill his promise to rid the country of graft and corruption. But he told OFWs in Hong […]
