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QUEZON CITY, Dec. 22 — The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is monitoring a new low pressure area (LPA) found in the eastern portion of Mindanao that may possibly enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) tomorrow, Friday, December 23. Aside from the new LPA, the Department is also gearing up for the possible effects of the Northeast Monsoon rains affecting Northern Luzon and the isolated thunderstorms in the whole Luzon area. Currently, […]
by Frank ZELLER with Kaouther LARBI in Tunisia Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — The Tunisian suspect in the Berlin truck attack, 24-year-old Anis Amri, was long watched as a potentially dangerous jihadist but managed to avoid both arrest and deportation from Germany. Two days after the Holiday market rampage killed 12 people, Amri was named in European arrest warrants that offered a 100,000-euro ($104,000) reward for information and warned he could be “violent […]
by Sofia MISELEM Jennifer GONZALEZ COVARRUBIAS Agence France-Presse TULTEPEC, Mexico (AFP) – Mexico worked Wednesday to identify the charred bodies of dozens of people killed in an explosion at its biggest fireworks market, as authorities investigated what caused the multi-colored salvo of destruction. Thirty one people are known to have died in the Tuesday blast — 26 at the scene and five more in hospital. Forensic experts are working on genetic analyses of […]
(Eagle News) — Lawmakers said it was ignorant and not prudent for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to label President Rodrigo Duterte as a murderer, including his call for the Philippine government to probe its own president. Senator Panfilo Lacson and Kabayan Rep. Harry Roque, in separate statements, criticized the UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein saying he does not seem to know the Philippine Constitution because of his conclusion. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines said Wednesday that President Rodrigo Duterte’s killing of three people in the 1980s was part of a police operation, after the United Nations rights chief urged Manila to investigate him for murder. In several speeches last week, Duterte recounted how in 1988, early in the first of his several terms as mayor of the southern city of Davao, he and local police ambushed and killed three suspected kidnappers. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — China has offered the Philippines guns and equipment worth $14 million to wage its war on drugs and combat terrorism, Manila’s defense minister said Tuesday, as ties improve under President Rodrigo Duterte. Beijing has publicly backed the controversial campaign, which has left 5,300 people dead in less than six months and drawn criticism from the United Nations and the United States, Manila’s ally. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the latest offer […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Persons with disabilities (PWDs) can now avail exemptions on the value-added tax. According to RA 10754, PWDs are exempted from 12% VAT in transportation, doctors’ professional fees, and medicine. Other VAT-exempt services include funeral and burial expenses, hotels and restaurants and concert halls.
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said that President Rodrigo Duterte and the Founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines have agreed to push through with the peace talks between the government and the CPP. “Yes, it went through. It was mostly a conversation between friends,” Abella said. “No references were made to political issues. Both agreed on moving peace process forward,” he added. In a Facebook post, Jose […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Leila De Lima is now back in the Philippines, after her trip to United States and Germany. She went to the USA to receive recognition as one of the 100 foreign policy thinkers in Washington D.C. while the senator went to Germany for a speaking engagement. Senator De Lima did not show up before the members of the media who awaited her arrival at the airport. The Qatar […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas released Php 8.25 billion worth or a total of 27 million pieces of new bank notes featuring President Rodrigo Duterte’s signature. The BSP released 100 boxes containing Php 20, Php 50, Php 100, Php 500 and Php 1000 bills. Each denomination has five million pieces released in the National Capital Region, the rest of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Under Section 53 of Republic Act […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Property tycoon Andrew Tan’s group promised to donate an additional Php 1.2 billion for the construction of additional drug rehabilitation centers in various places around the country. https://youtu.be/hnGK__sH9xU
(Eagle News) – The Department of Justice filed criminal charges against Senator Leila de Lima before a Quezon City court for advising her then driver-bodyguard Ronnie Dayan to ignore the summons of the House of Representatives to its inquiry on the illegal drug trade. The DOJ found probable cause in the complaint filed by House leaders who had earlier recommended that charges for obstruction of justice be filed against the senator. The formal complaint for […]
