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(Eagle News) – The Committee on Transportation of the House of Representatives approved on Wednesday, January 18, House Bill 544 or the Traffic Crisis Act of 2016 that seeks to provide remedies to the traffic problem in the country through emergency powers. There were 12 amendments made to the bill during the resumption of the committee hearing. The committee said the traffic crisis was concentrated in metropolitan areas such as in Metro Manila, Metro […]
(Eagle News) — Napapanahon na raw para magkaroon ng tax reform sa bansa. Ayon kay Albay Rep. Joey Salceda, masyado nang mataas ang binabayarang buwis ng mga ordinaryong mangagawang Pilipino. Sa Asya aniya ang Pilipinas ang may pinakamataas na buwis na ipinapataw sa mga empleyado. Si Salceda ang may-akda at naghain sa House Bill 4688 o Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN). Nakasaad sa nasabing panukalang batas na ibaba ang personal income tax ng […]
(Eagle News) — Para sa mga mahilig mag ‘peace sign’ sa tuwing magpapakuha ng litrato, nagbabala ang mga Japanese researcher na maaaring manakaw ang ating fingerprints dahil dito. https://youtu.be/RJWiEqRT6Qw
(Eagle News) — Naghain ng “diplomatic communication” ang Pilipinas laban sa China makaraang mapaulat na naglagay ito ng anti-aircraft at anti-missile weapons sa mga artipisyal na isla sa West Philippine Sea. Ayon kay Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr., ipinalabas ng pamahalaan ang “note verbale” kasunod ng report ng Center for Strategic and International Studies ng Estados Unidos hinggil sa naging hakbang ng China. Nilinaw naman ng kalihim na hindi gagawin ng Pilipinas ang […]
(Eagle News) — Nagdulot umano ng pangamba ang ginagawang militarisasyon ng China sa pinag-aagawang teritoryo sa West Philippine Sea. Ayon kay Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, nakakabahala ang nasabing aktibidad ng China sa kabilang ng panawagang kapayapaan ng pamahalaan. Makikita sa inilabas na satellite photos ng US Think Tank CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) nito lamang Disyembre ang tila weapons system na inilagay sa Johnson Reef o Mabini Reef.
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malabo umanong mapagtibay ang panukalang panunumbalik ng parusang kamatayan ito ay dahil ilang Senador ang nagsabing hindi ang bitay ang solusyon para tuluyang masugpo ang matinding problema ng krimen sa bansa. https://youtu.be/OMmew4CNrs0
MANILA, Philipines (Eagle News) — Kinumpirma ni House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez na may dalawang incumbent congressmen ang kasama sa Narco List ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Gayunman, tumanggi si Alvarez na pangalanan ang dalawang kongresista. Tiniyak naman ni Alvarez na naberipika nang husto ang impormasyon kaugnay rito at maging siya ay nagsagawa rin ng sariling beripikasyon. Protektor umano ng sindikato ng droga ang papel ng dalawang nasabing kongresista. Maliban aniya sa mga ito, may mga Gobernador, […]
(Reuters) — The commitment of the United States is vital for peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday (January 16) during a visit to Vietnam, the last destination of his six-day trip to the region. “We (Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Australia) have agreed that the commitment of the United States is vital for the peace and prosperity of the region,” he told a news conference in Hanoi, […]
(Eagle News) — China said it is committed to “peacefully resolving the South China Sea dispute through dialogue and negotiation” with sovereign states like the Philippines, even as it stressed its right to put military equipment on its alleged territories in the disputed seas. In a statement, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said direct negotiations with the Philippines have “lowered the temperature” in the South China Sea maritime dispute. But she maintained that […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Foreign Affairs said it had sent about three or four note verbales to China expressing the Philippines’ concern over the reported military equipment recently set up by China in the Spratly Islands. One note verbale was issued after an American think tank report in December 2016 that said China has installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on its man made islands. Earlier, the Center for Strategic and International Studies […]
(Reuters) — Nigeria’s air force killed 50 people and injured 120 in an air strike on a camp for displaced persons in the northeast of the country on Tuesday (January 17), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said. The military said the strike had targeted Boko Haram. MSF said the strike occurred in Rann in Borno state, the epicentre of the jihadist group’s seven-year-old bid to create an Islamic caliphate. Regional military commander General Lucky Irabor located […]
by Johannes MYBURGH Agence France-Presse NATAL, Brazil (AFP) – Brazil’s government Tuesday ordered the armed forces to help secure the country’s overcrowded jails as police fought to separate rival gangs of inmates in one prison following a massacre. Inmates climbed on the roof and set up barriers of furniture in a northeastern jail inhabited by warring rival drug gangs vowing to behead each other. Police fired rubber bullets to try to keep apart two rival […]
