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by Eugenia LOGIURATTO Agence France Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) – Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday approved a 20-year government spending freeze billed as the centerpiece of austerity reforms aimed at restoring economic health to the troubled Latin American giant. The upper house voted 53 to 16 to lock in the spending ceiling. Center-right President Michel Temer says tough measures are needed to get Brazil’s finances back under control, but his austerity policies have prompted violent protests […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Appointments (CA) on Tuesday (December 13) approved the appointment of former Makati congressman Teodoro “Teddyboy” Locsin Jr., as the Philippines’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN). The CA also approved the interim appointments of three Cabinet secretaries, and 21 foreign service officers. The powerful CA also approved the appointment of Secretaries Ismael Sueno for Interior and Local Government, Arturo Tugade for Transportation, and Mark Villar for Public Works […]
(Eagle News)– The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday (December 13) revealed the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) still holds 18 foreign and five Filipino hostages. AFP spokesman Brigadier General Restituto Padilla said two of the foreign captives were Japanese treasure hunter Toshio Ito and Dutch national Ewold Horn. Ito was abducted from Pangutaran Island in Sulu on July 16, 2010. Horn, on the other hand, was abducted along with fellow European bird watcher […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Vice President Leni Robredo, who has openly criticized President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and the reimposition of the death penalty, announced that she is determined to lead a campaign to ‘make the president to listen.’ “I think it is very important that I will be very vocal in the issues that I feel so passionate about and talk to more people who feel the same,” she said. Robredo warned that Duterte’s war […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte warned the terrorist Maute group not to set conditions on the Philippine government after it demanded that the military stop its attacks. Duterte said on Monday (December 12) that the Maute Group has threatened to burn Marawi City if the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) would not stop its attacks on their forces. “Itong Maute… It was carried by a Moro ambassador, former, sabi niya na, ‘Maghinto sila basta […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senator Leila De Lima has been cited by the influential Foreign Policy magazine as one of the leading global thinkers for 2016 for standing up to President Rodrigo Duterte and for her efforts to investigate the spate of extra-judicial killings in the country. The former chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights and the former justice secretary was honored “for standing up to an extremist leader” as one of the 13 […]
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) — Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines have freed two Indonesian hostages, the military said on Monday, as the army mounted an offensive against the Islamist kidnapping group. The two were among seven crew seized from a tugboat off the southern Philippines in June. The others have already been released. They were undergoing medical checks and would later be turned over to Indonesian government representatives, the military said in a […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — The bicameral conference committee has approved the proposed P3.350 trillion national budget for 2017 following the consolidation of the respective versions of the Senate and House of Representatives. Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance announced this on Tuesday, December 13, as she stated that the budget was “in line with the President’s 10-Point Socioeconomic Agenda.” She said that they have ensured that it would fund the […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) –The number of people left homeless after an earthquake struck western Indonesia has soared to nearly 84,000, leaving authorities struggling to care for the victims, an official said Tuesday. The shallow quake last week killed more than 100 people and injured many more when it struck Aceh province, one of the areas worst affected by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Thousands of homes, businesses and mosques were levelled by the […]
(Eagle News) — Transport Ministers of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members and of the Russian Federation met in Moscow, Russia for the ASEAN-Russia Transport Ministers’ Meeting on December 9, 2016. With the theme “Moving Towards a Mutually Beneficial Transport Cooperation,” the meeting takes place in recognition of the important role that transport plays in economic, social and sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. One of the important highlights of the event is […]
(Eagle News) – A day after filing an ethics complaint with the Senate against Senator Leila De Lima, House leaders today filed a criminal complaint against her with the Department of Justice for snubbing the House inquiry on the illegal drug trade and for instructing her driver-bodyguard to hide and do the same. The House leaders who filed the criminal complaint were House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, House Majority Floor Leader Rodolfo Farinas and House […]
(Eagle News)– Kabayan part-list has formed a panel that will investigate its representative Harry Roque over his alleged improper manner of questioning Ronnie Dayan, the former driver-bodyguard of Senator Leila De Lima, during a House inquiry on November 24. The three-person panel would probe Roque for concentrating his inquiry on the details of Dayan’s past relationship with De Lima instead of his alleged involvement with drug lords inside New Bilibid Prison (NBP). “We can ignore […]
