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QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The controversial urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) said it welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement allowing its members to stay in the government housing project that they occupied in Pandi, Bulacan. Kadamay Chairman Gloria Arellano said that it is a welcome change to have a President that is open-minded about the poor. Arellano also said that the government should look into the housing shortage in the country. “So […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday revealed he had fired another government official, an undersecretary, only days after he sacked a member of his Cabinet. Duterte made the revelation during a speech at the Grand Harvest Festival of the Seh Leng Agritech Corporation in Talavera, Nueva Ecija. “Sabi ko kanina..tawagan mo..She’s fired. So pangalawa siya,” he said. The first official who was sacked this week was Department of the Interior and Local Government chief […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte appointed the department’s undersecretary for peace and order who had served previously as chief of police in Davao City as acting Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). The new DILG officer-in-charge is undersecretary for peace and order, Catalino Cuy. Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella made the announcement on Wednesday, after the dismissal of former DILG head Ismael “Mike” Sueno because of complaints on corruption sent […]
(Eagle News) — Eight in ten Filipinos appreciate the performance and trust President Rodrigo Duterte. This is according to a Pulse Asia survey conducted via face-to-face interviews from March 15 to 20. The survey has a sample of 1,200 representative adults 18 years old and above, and a ± 3 percent error margin at the 95 percent confidence level. Relevant events before and during the conduct of the survey include the the filing of the first impeachment complaint against […]
(Eagle News) — The weather in the coming weeks will become warmer and drier, which would signify the start of the dry season. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration made the announcement on Wednesday, with the termination of the northeast monsoon that affected northern and central Luzon in the last few days. “However, some isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms are expected in the afternoon or evening particularly over the eastern sections due to localized convection,” it […]
(Eagle News) — A 5.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Metro Manila and some parts of Southern Tagalog on Tuesday night, prompting the Batangas government to declare a state of calamity and suspend classes. The quake was felt at Intensity IV in Makati and Obando, Bulacan, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. Intensity III was felt in Mandaluyong; Quezon City; General Trias and Dasmariñas in Cavite; in Sta. Ana, Manila; and in Lucena City, Quezon. […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Britain, France and the United States on Tuesday presented a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council condemning the suspected chemical attack in Syria and demanding a full investigation as soon as possible. The text, obtained by AFP, called on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to report quickly on its findings on the attack earlier in the day on the rebel-held town of Khan […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday again lashed out at Inquirer and ABSCBN, saying they were corrupt media organizations that were “a bunch of” trash. “Kaya sinasabi ko dyan, sa Inquirer, wag kayo magbasa dyan. Basura yan….Just like ABSCBN. They’re all a bunch of (trash),” Duterte said, using a more forceful expletive to describe the media organizations during the inauguration of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s crisis center in Guadalupe, Makati. His statement drew […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Nuclear-armed North Korea on Wednesday fired a suspected missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s defense ministry said. “North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the Sea of Japan this morning from (the eastern port of) Sinpo,” the ministry said in a statement. If confirmed to be a missile, it would be the latest such launch by Pyongyang and will fuel international concerns about the isolated regime’s military ambitions. It […]
by Alex PIGMAN Agence France-Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium – For Diaeddin Al Zamel, the call to save Syria at a EU-UN conference in Brussels was not supposed to be a punch to the gut. The gathering was meant to be an all-too-typical plea for aid from rich donors — but then came the text message from the world’s bloodiest battleground. A source on the ground said the town of Khan Sheikhun in Idlib Province had […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that he fired then-Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Mike Sueno because he “did not like his answer” when asked about the questionable firetruck deal the DILG had entered into. “Last night I fired a Cabinet member in a full Cabinet meeting because I did not like his answer because it was a plain lie,” he said during the inauguration of the Metropolitan Manila Development […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday took up the cudgels for Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, who has come under fire after admitting he had another girlfriend and children out of wedlock. “Sino ba walang babae dito? Mayor Herbert (Bautista) tumingin ka sa akin and I’ll tell you you’re a liar,” he told the Quezon City mayor, drawing laughs from the audience at the newly inaugurated Metropolitan Manila Development Authority’s Crisis Monitoring and Management Center. […]
